Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1

[Jason Tishler]

Dean,

Please keep your replies on-list.

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:14:21AM -0800, Dean N. Williams wrote:
> I am trying to do the following according to your notes:
> 
> 3. Due to issues with Cygwin's fork() and DLL base address conflicts,
> one should rebase their Cygwin system to prevent fork() failures.  Use
> the following procedure to rebase your system:
> 
>    a. install the Cygwin rebase package (if necessary)
>    b. shutdown all Cygwin processes
>    c. start bash (do not use rxvt)
>    d. execute rebaseall (in the bash window)
> 
> I think this is why idle fails. So I did the above:
> 
> [Dean Williams at ippc ...ASD_work/bin]$ rebaseall
> ReBaseImage (/usr/bin/cygexpat-0.dll) failed with last error = 6
> 
> What am I doing wrong here?

It appears you did not follow step b above.  Did you shutdown *all*
Cygwin processes include services?

Jason

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