Build problem

[gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov]

Cygwin does suffer from handle leaks that persist even after exiting
all Cygwin tasks.  To release them you have to reboot the OS- I get
the same behavior on NT4 and Win2k.  

For me, it shows up when I do a multilib PowerPC toolchain build under
cygwin- about halfway through.  Different versions of cygwin have
different handle leak characteristics, a fairly detailed search shows
this has been more or less of a problem for at least a couple years.
You can watch the handles leak via the Task Manager.

Its not a memory exhaustion problem, but a handle problem- whatever
they are, presumably mutexes/semaphores- whatever, that aren't being
freed properly that Windows allows to leak.

Gregm



Steve Strobel writes:
 > Welcome to the crowd :(  There are several of us on this list that have run into the build_alias problem when compiling RTEMS with Cygwin.  We have found various things to help, but as far as I know, no one has nailed down the exact problem or a way to consistently fix it.  You can check the archive for details, but the following are some of the things that have been mentioned as workarounds:
 > 
 > - Rebooting right before starting a build
 > - Running no unnecessary software during it
 > - Rearranging the order in which the options to "configure" are specified  
 > - Copying bash to sh
 > - Disabling any real-time antivirus checking
 > - Disconnecting from the network
 > 
 > Things that didn't seem to help:
 > - Doubling the amount of memory in the PC (from 256 to 512MB)
 > 
 > Steve
 >