Kai Backman wrote: > On 9/27/06, Jeongkyu Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 9/27/06, Jesús Corrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > dmake (OOD680_m4) randomly freezes with latest cygwin in my Windows XP >> >> It might be a workaround for you to run 'ls /proc/*/fd'. > > Short answer: Always build using bash on win32. It's a lot faster and > doesn't have this issue. "./configure --with-use-shell=bash" and > "source winenv.set.sh" > > Long answer: This was reported to Cygwin ages ago and despite a lot > of effort never resolved.
Let's change the meaning of this. There is nothing like a reproducible testcase. Noone was ever able to fix this because it is not reproducible. (No, the testcase is not: Build OOo with tcsh because that just doesn't hang on all the systems that were accessible. My money is still on some drivers/services, see the links in this snippet from the cygwin ml with respect to a maybe related topic: Quote from cygwin ml with respect to fork problems/hangs: > It's crappy coding on the part of the Logitech module. Ross Ridge gives > a convincing argument for what's going on: > <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=17999960>. More > info on the loader lock issue is in this paper: > <http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/DLL_bestprac.mspx>. Now if > only someone could forward these clues to the idiots that wrote that > Logitech crapware, it would save a whole lot of frustration. > AFAIK the freeze occures somewhere in the > win32 high precision timers. The ls /proc hack doesn't work reliably > as it occasionally collides with the build process which gets aborted. > I have a workstation that used to have this problem and building with > bash fixes this. The build isntructions are out of date .. Where? Except for the part that --with-use-shell=bash is not mentioned? Volker -- = http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Debug_Build_Problems = PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D
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