make problem with cygwin

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:34, Joel Sherrill  wrote:
> THis does not fail on my home PC.  It is a P4 running XP Pro.
> It should be a fairly clean machine as I had a hard disk die and
> had to reload from OS disks a few months ago.  Is there anything
> to learn from comparing something on the two machines?

All I can tell is:

* Steve H. reports not to have problems.
AFAICT, his machine seems to be up to date or at least very close to
current Cygwin.

* Scott report to have problems. His installation is somewhat outdated.

Here are the what I presume to be the essential diffs between their
lists:
--- steveh.list 2004-08-27 18:13:51.616068057 +0200
+++ scott.list  2004-08-27 18:13:34.013326813 +0200
@@ -1,64 +1,59 @@
 bash                    2.05b-16           OK
-cygwin                  1.5.10-3           OK
+cygwin                  1.5.5-1            OK
-gawk                    3.1.3-4            OK
+gawk                    3.1.3-3            OK
 m4                      1.4-1              OK
 make                    3.80-1             OK
 mktemp                  1.5-3              OK
-sed                     4.0.9-2            OK
+sed                     4.0.7-3            OK
-w32api                  2.5-1              OK
+w32api                  2.4-1              OK


> This morning I just upgraded the Cygwin on the dual CPU
> machine that failed earlier this week.  It now works.
This would fit into the picture above.

> Is everyone who experiences this problem running the
> latest and greatest Cygwin?

Ralf