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Asked: 2026-06-13T03:38:20+00:00

I am trying to setup some old version of Cygwin on my Windows 7

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I am trying to setup some old version of Cygwin on my Windows 7 x64 OS. So far so good. Now I am stuck at srdout/stderr distinction problem:

$ vmake
  1 [main] make 7060 dtable::stdio_init: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout

$ ls /
  1 [main] ls 8180 dtable::stdio_init: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout
Cygwin.bat  Cygwin.ico  bin  cygdrive  etc  lib  proc  setup.log  setup.log.full  tmp  usr  var

I am running:

$ uname -srv
  1 [main] uname 5876 dtable::stdio_init: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34

The Cygwin installation had DOS line-endings option selected (for some legacy code compatibility).

To fix another issues with line endings (bash had troubles processing /cygdrive/c/cygwin-legacy/bin/vmake script, like issue described here: http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/softdevel/faq/5.html ) I’ve added these to ~/.bash_profile:

export SHELLOPTS
set -o igncr

After reading http://lists-archives.com/cygwin/50369-run-requires-cygwin-tty.html I also set:

$ CYGWIN=tty

This changed nothing. I am still getting

1 [main] make 7060 dtable::stdio_init: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout

with different 4-digit number each time.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have had the same problem here.
    Then I remembered, that we replaced the “make” command
    by an MSYS-Version (since the ‘make’ of the new
    cygwin package did not handle any pathes with colons (“:”)
    -> this lead to “multiple target” errors.

    The replacement of the ‘make’ command solved this problem,
    but caused “stdio_init: couldn’t make stderr distinct from stdout”
    when I was trying to compile other projects.

    Therefore:

    Do you have MSYS/MinGW installed on your machine, too ?

    Try this:

    make --version

    it should look like:

    GNU Make 3.82.90
Built for i686-pc-cygwin

    if you get something like:

    GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i686-pc-msys

    You need to use the cygwin ‘make’ instead.

    Perhaps this error occurs if you mix up the components of different cygwin versions…

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