[ROOT] Problems running root under cygwin

From: HP Beck (Hans.Peter.Beck@cern.ch)
Date: Thu Dec 02 2004 - 14:22:29 MET


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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