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List:       cygwin
Subject:    Re: zsh on Vista
From:       Seth Kurtzberg <seth () cql ! com>
Date:       2007-04-24 18:51:52
Message-ID: 20070424185152.72c96dd8.seth () cql ! com
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:28:17 -0700 (PDT)
"Peter A. Castro" <doctor@fruitbat.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, sethk wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've had some success using a different version of zsh on vista.
> > 
> > In the UnxUtils package, there is a version of zsh, named sh.  (Not copied
> > or linked to zsh, for whatever reason, and, I should say, named sh.exe.)
> 
> Two things:
> 1) that's a win32 native exe, not a cygwin exe.
> 2) named 'sh' it will run with a 'sh' compatable set of functionality.

Both quite correct.

Mixing cygwin apps with native apps does tend to get nasty, and I should have \
mentioned that the shell build I mentioned is not a replacement for the cygwin zsh.

> 
> > I created a shortcut for this executable.  It mostly works.  I'm having some
> > issues, such as relative paths not working as expected, but that's not
> > surprising.
> > 
> > Note that running this exe from cygwin bash doesn't work.  As already noted,
> > running the cygwin version of zsh doesn't work.
> > 
> > I'm currently rebuilding zsh, under cygwin, to see if a version built under
> > vista behaves any better than the binary distributed with cygwin.
> 
> What version?  I'm building the latest 4.3.4 for cygwin right now, but
> there are issues with it, even on Win2k.
> 
> > Seth Kurtzberg
> > 
> > 
> > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > > 
> > > Kyrre Nygård wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello!
> > > > 
> > > > I'm having some trouble running zsh on Microsoft Windows Vista:
> > > > 
> > > > 24295 [main] zsh 3104 C:\cygwin\bin\zsh.exe: *** fatal error - unable to
> > > > remap C:\cygwin\lib\zsh\4.3.2\zsh\zle.dll to same address as
> > > > parent(0xAB0000) != 0xC10000
> > > > 12 [main] zsh 2020 fork: child 3104 - died waiting for dll loading,
> > > > errno 11
> > > > 
> > > > zsh-newuser-install:929: fork failed: resource temporarily unavailable
> > > > 14126 [main] zsh 1868 C:\cygwin\bin\zsh.exe: *** fatal error - unable to
> > > > remap C:\cygwin\lib\zsh\4.3.2\zsh\zle.dll to same address as
> > > > parent(0xAB0000) != 0xBB0000
> > > > 
> > > > Can this be fixed somehow?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > One inquiry on each subject is sufficient.  You should also check for
> > > responses before any follow-up inquiry.  In this case, had you done this
> > > you would have seen:
> > > 
> > > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00599.html>
> > > 
> > > If you don't read the email list (which you should if you post to it),
> > > please let people know that you expect a direct response as well.  I've
> > > included your email address on this response this time.
> > > 
> > > --
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> > > 
> > > _____________________________________________________________________
> > > 
> > > A: Yes.
> > > > Q: Are you sure?
> > > > > A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
> > > > > > Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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