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Re: is anyone able to successfully use make/grep from within xemacs/c ygwin?
- From: dmkarr at earthlink dot net (David M. Karr)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 13 Mar 2002 14:43:47 -0800
- Subject: Re: is anyone able to successfully use make/grep from within xemacs/c ygwin?
- References: <5B243E1DBC4D2648A46145FCA8268257026E42BC@SUS-CO1IT01>
>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Taylor <Taylor> writes:
Patrick> Ever since upgrading from cygwin 1.3.2 (quite a few months ago),
Patrick> I have had a lot of difficulty with running subprocesses for
Patrick> make and grep from within xemacs. At first they would fail
Patrick> only sometimes, but since upgrading to more recent versions of
Patrick> cygwin, they fail almost every time.
Patrick> When I launch a make within xemacs (via M-x compile), the
Patrick> subprocess almost always hangs. The output buffer shows
Patrick> cd /wherever/.../
Patrick> make -k
Patrick> and that's it. Doing a kill-compilation sometimes has no
Patrick> effect, and I have to so it several times to actually kill
Patrick> the subprocess.
Patrick> When I launch a grep (via M-x grep), the problem is slightly
Patrick> different. The subprocess always completes, but often does
Patrick> not produce any matches in the output buffer even when there
Patrick> are definitely matches. Sometimes it works fine.
As a matter of fact, I just started noticing the same "grep" behavior you're
seeing. I recently upgraded from 1.3.(something) to 1.3.10. I am often seeing
the grep process complete without matching anything, although when I rerun the
exact command again, it gives me valid output.
I'm also on XEmacs/Cygwin 21.4.6 on win2k. I haven't noticed the same symptom
with "compile", as I haven't used that in a while (I've been "ant"ing directly
in a shell buffer).
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