Wed Oct 17 16:27:50 2012: Request 80217 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by BULKDD
Queue: Win32-API
Subject: Build failure under Cygwin on Windows
Broken in: 0.72
Severity: Critical
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: jdhed...@cpan.org
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80217 >
On Wed Oct 17 16:16:19 2012, BULKDD wrote:
> The culprit from cygwin.asm
The dirty hack fix is
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/* what is the macro for cygwin platform?*/
#define _alloca(x) (void *)sv_grow(sv_newmortal(), x)
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The correct fix is talking to whoever maintains cygwin.asm and fixing
the bug in cygwin.asm and waiting for a new cygwin release. I'm not sure
who's or what bug ticket system (linux GCC, binutils, mingw, cygwin,
etc) is responsible for this file. I am done with this ticket until I
hear more input.
