Steve Holden wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> The only environment variables that don't appear in the shell output >>> from the env command are INFOPATH, MAKE_MODE and PLAT. I am still flummoxed. >> At this point, I'd recommend to perform a cygwin update; with Cygwin, >> these problems often go away with an update. >> > I updated Cygwin and did a rebaseall before posting. > >> If that doesn't help, you can ask on the Cygwin list also; to analyse >> this further, ISTM one will need to debug the internals of cygwin. >> > I posted on Cygwin before asking here. > >> One thing you could try is to add -v to the list of gcc options; >> you can then see whether gcc is progressing correctly. >> > I'll do that, though I have reason to believe the gcc *is* terminating > and _spawn_posix isn't detecting the end of the process. At the very > least we should get another test out of this dreadfully irritating bug. > > Thanks again for looking at this. > A further data point (sorry, I've not had a lot of time to look at this). Building Python from the trunk at rev 57076 yielded a system that *would* cleanly build the same release of PIL. This is somewhat annoying because it appears to put the bug in the past where there's less incentive to investigate it. But I may find time to take a look.
Hardly worth it if I'm the only one noticing the issue, though. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden --------------- Asciimercial ------------------ Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag the Internet Many services currently offer free registration ----------- Thank You for Reading ------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
