Re: gEDA-user: New beta version of gEDA Suite CD up -- please test!

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

Hi --

> >>I put a new version of the gEDA Suite CD up on my website:
> >>
> >>http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/

[. . . . snip . . .]

> >Not that I use cygwin that much, but I have it installed on my work
> >laptop and I decided to give the CD a shot, just to see what
> >happens...
> >
> >So your law works in this case as well, trying to launch the installer
> >gives an error message "Program too big to fit in memory". I don't
> >know who is reporting this, running it in gdb didn't really help
> >either since gdb just prints this message and hangs. Gdb also
> >complains that the installer.exe is built for GNU/Linux which it
> >doesn't know about.

I did some quick Googling.   This message is coming from Cygwin
itself.  There are various configurations you can twiddle in Cygwin
which might solve this problem.  Here's one thread which I found with
some info:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01045.html

I'd imagine that 10 minutes of Googling would solve your problem.

I don't currently have access to a Cygwin machine, so I can't debug
this one first-hand.  Anyway, it looks like fiddling with the Cygwin
config might help.  If you do find a fiddle which fixes the problem,
please report it and I can put it in a note included on the CD.

FWIW, the installer works on all my Linux machines.  Why run Cygwin on
Windoze when you can just run Linux natively?   

Finally, manual install instructions are included in the INSTALL file
on the CD.  You might be able to get a running gEDA Suite by doing a
manual install.

Stuart