Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:53:43 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Olivier Lefevre Subject: Re: Antw: Re: cygwin python 2.3 oddity Message-ID: <20030912145343.GB1840@tishler.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Olivier Lefevre References: <20030911215814.GA9634@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030911215814.GA9634@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Olivier, On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:58:14PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:55:10PM +0200, Olivier Lefevre wrote: > >OK, so I upgraded everything and now with python 2.3.2 it works. > >Weird. I didn't change anything else. When I built Python 2.3-2, I didn't change anything either -- I just built against Cygwin 1.5.x. > >However, following up on my own suggestion re. truss, I found about > >strace and wanted to try it but: > > > > bash-2.05b$ strace python > > strace.exe: error creating process python, (error 2) > > > >Is this a known issue? It's not mentioned in python-2.3.README, at > >any rate. > > python is a symlink. strace doesn't grok symlinks. Try the following: $ strace -o python.log python2.3.exe Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/