Re: [ROOT] Problems running root under cygwin

From: Axel Naumann (naumann@hef.ru.nl)
Date: Thu Dec 02 2004 - 16:34:20 MET


Hi HansPeter,
this problem is currently under investigation; you can follow the 
progress here: http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1382
Axel.

HP Beck wrote:
> Dear Root'ers
> 
> I  compiled root 4.01.04 on my WindowsXP Professional SP2 running cygwin.
> Following Axel's cookbook, compilation run flawlessly.
> My LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH and ROOTSYS seem to be OK:
> 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH    /root/lib:/lib:
> PATH    
> /usr/lib/subversion/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:\
>            
> /root/bin:/bin:.:/root/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:\ 
> 
>            /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program 
> Files/ATI Technologies/ATI Control Panel
> ROOTSYS   /root
> 
> However, running root doesn't work.
> The splash-screen appears, as it should, but that's also all of the good 
> news.
> My xterm window shows then following message
>  >root
>      2 [main] ? 772 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve 9891540 
> bytes of space for cygwin's heap (0x61790000 <0xAD0000>) in child, Win32 
> error 487
> D:\cygwin\root\bin\root_exe.exe (772): *** m.AllocationBase 0x0, 
> m.BaseAddress 0x61790000, m.RegionSize 0x40000, m.State 0x10000
> 
> When I install the pre-compiled version from 
> ftp://root.cern.ch/root/root_v4.01.04.win32gcc.tar.gz, then root works 
> just fine.
> So - there must be some additional trick missing in Axel's cookbook.
> 
> btw - 4.00.08 shows the same behaviour.
> 
> Any idea out there?
> 
> kind regards
> HansPeter
> 
> 



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