Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-14 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS>>Tried 20051013 and it worked :-))) CGF> I'm sorry that it didn't occur to me much CGF> earlier that this was a cygwin CGF> heap problem that was fixed in a snapshot. CGF> I guess that, as a rule of thumb, CGF> "try a snapshot" is always a good idea. Not to be a total brown nose, but I'v

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-14 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber PS>>One last post before calling it a night. I built a debug PS>> version of the cygwin DLL as well and installed it. PS>> Here is the latest gdb session: CGF> I don't remember if I suggested trying a snapshot CGF> but I'm wondering if a

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
One last post before calling it a night. I built a debug version of the cygwin DLL as well and installed it. Here is the latest gdb session: Attaching to program `/bin/ld.exe', process 304 [Switching to thread 304.0x990] (gdb) bt #0 0x7c901231 in ntdll!DbgUiConnectToDbg () from /cygdrive/c/W

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
CGF> It is useless. You probaby have to continue CGF> after ld has been attached to see where the CGF> SEGV really is coming from. Thanks. Here is the result... GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
OK. This time gdb seemed to attach to the broken ld process, but the back trace still doesn't have symbols... GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to chan

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
1. I built the binutils code from the source. 2. I renamed /usr/bin/ld.exe to /usr/bin/ld-old.exe. 3. I copies ld-new.exe to /usr/bin. The debug session that starts when ld crashes repeats Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. over and over. It never seems to stop. Was copying l

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber PS>>> Sorry in advance for the stupid questions, but... PS>>> PS>>> I downloaded the binutils source package, and PS>>> extracted the source. When PS>>> I ran PS>>> PS>>> ./configure --help PS>>> P

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Pete Stieber PS>>> Do I also need to build a debug version of the cygwin DLL? BD = Brian Dessent BD>>It would help, since otherwise backtraces will only have raw BD>> addresses. Note that the cygwin configure script[*] has a BD>> --enable-debugging switch, but this is for enabling lots of BD

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber PS>> Sorry in advance for the stupid questions, but... PS>> PS>> I downloaded the binutils source package, and PS>> extracted the source. When PS>> I ran PS>> PS>> ./configure --help PS>> PS>> I didn't see a --enabl

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber on 10/9/2005 7:59 PM: PS>>>> It's attached. I added the -t command to the g++ command so PS>>>> the loader would list the files it was processing when it breaks. PS>>>> The name of the object file in the last line should be PS>

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-09 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS = Peter J. Stieber PS>> I have a large simluation that I have built under cygwin for a PS>> quite a while. Recently the ld phase of the build started PS>> generating a stackdump (ld.exe.stackdump). PS>> PS>> Unfortunately I cannot recreate the problem with a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ncurses-5.4-2, libncurses8-5.4-2, libncurses-devel-5.4-2, ncurses-demo-5.4-2

2005-07-10 Thread Peter J. Stieber
PS>>One of these packages seems to be giving me grief. PS>> I keep getting "Download Incomplete. Try again?" PS>> when I try to include them using setup version PS>> 2.457.2.2 and the mirros site ftp://gnu.kookel.org. PS>> PS>>I try to install everything. My cygcheck. -s -v -r PS>> output is atta

Re: Setup column far too wide

2004-11-09 Thread Peter J. Stieber
There was a package at some point that confused setup's versioning logic, so setup stored a very long version number for it. The package is long gone from the mirrors, but if the OP was unlucky enough to update while it was still available, he has a corrupt line in his /etc/setup/installed.db. Sin

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-15 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> I don't see how it could be worthwhile since cygwin doesn't use posix > threads or even posix mutexes under the hood. Sorry for my stupidity. The tools are probably very OS specific anyway. Just trying to help. Oh well. Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple P

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-15 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> I wonder if there is a super-secret club out there somewhere that I can > now join having spent the last four months wrapping my head around > subtle multi-threaded race conditions. My wife has not quite picked up > on the fact that when I have a certain pained intense look on my face, > I'm rea

Re: Undefined references when compiling C++ program

2004-03-05 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> when I try to compile this... > > //zozo.cc > #include > int main() > { > std::cout << "Salut" << std::endl; > return 0; > } > > ...with... > gcc zozo.cc Use g++ zozo.cc instead. Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: check_case:strict Useful

2004-02-25 Thread Peter J. Stieber
CFG> This falls under the classification of "really need it and CFG> really know what you're doing". I'll consider that the ultimate compliment ;-) Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

check_case:strict Useful

2004-02-25 Thread Peter J. Stieber
In a different thread CFG wrote: CFG> I keep pointing out that there few reasons to use the CFG> check_case:strict option. Even the person who wrote CFG> it (Corinna) agrees. It slows down cygwin's file handling. CFG> You should only be using this option if you really need it CFG> and really kno

Re: C COM objects?

2004-01-30 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> I'll give ZooLib another try. If I can build ZooLib with Cygwin, that will mean > that ZooLib can be built with gcc on all the platforms that ZooLib supports (Mac > OS, Windows, Linux and BeOS). I think that would encourage its acceptance as a > framework for writing open source software, if on

Re: Updated: man-1.5k-2

2004-01-10 Thread Peter J. Stieber
Steve Kelem wrote: >>I installed this version, and I still get the ESC characters. >> Do you have any idea why I'm getting them? Larry Hall wrote: > Does '/usr/share/misc/man.conf' contain this line? > > PAGER /usr/bin/less -isrR I updated to man-1.5k-2 too and my '/usr/share/misc/man.c

Re: cvs - cygwin1.dll recompile - configure fails in w32api/

2003-11-12 Thread Peter J. Stieber
Just tried this myself this morning (11/12/2003 9:00 AM PST) and it worked. Definitely did not need the "Remedy". Pete > $ cd / > $ rm -rf src > $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src ;\ > cvs login ;\ > cvs -z3 checkout winsup ;\ > cd /obj ;\ > /src/configure --enable-debuggin

Re: cvs complains of no repository

2003-11-12 Thread Peter J. Stieber
Initially I sent this directly to Ken. Sorry Ken. See reply below... > There's a difference between 1.10 and 1.11 that I don't understand. > > Performing a "cvs co -c" using 1.10 correctly provides a listing of the > projects. The version shows "Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10 > `Halibut'

Re: Problems building cygwin from source

2003-11-04 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> >I'm interested in building the cygwin DLL from the source, but I'm having > >problems. > > > >I've attached my cygcheck output. I tried the following sequence under my > >home directory... > > > >$ mkdir cygwin-src > >$ cd cygwin-src > >$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src > >$ c

Problems building cygwin from source

2003-11-04 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I'm interested in building the cygwin DLL from the source, but I'm having problems. I've attached my cygcheck output. I tried the following sequence under my home directory... $ mkdir cygwin-src $ cd cygwin-src $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src $ cvs -z3 co winsup $ mkdir Build

Re: cygcheck as body or attachment (was RE: rsync hang .... )

2003-10-24 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> I've used Cygwin for several years now, and have read this mailing list > for quite some time. When I encountered the rsync problem, I searched > mailing lists as well as Google to find the solution, couldn't find a > definitive answer, and eventually found one myself that worked, so I > thought

Re: rsync local dir copy hang - solved for me

2003-10-23 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I'm just a user and follower of cygwin, but it amazes me how many people put the output of > cygcheck -s output: or cygcheck -svr in the body of their email instead of as an attachment when every stinking email has http://cygwin.com/problems.html at the bottom of it and that page has "Run cygc

Re: cygpath hangings: A fix - bash patch enclosed -- bash maintainer please note!

2003-10-18 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> if anyone wants to try this. It would be good to confirm or deny > that this fixes the problem for everyone. I tried the posted simple shell script with the old and new bash.exe. Worked exactly as you predicted... Hung with the old, didn't hang (i.e. worked) with the new. cygcheck output atta

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-3.3.1-2

2003-09-25 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> I've made a new version of gcc available for download. This is a very > minor refresh from the 3.3.1-1. The only noticeable change from the > last release was an attempt to correctly define mbstate_t. Thanks for the quick fix Chris. This fixed the problem in my original report http://www.cygwi

Latest GCC has mbstate_t problem

2003-09-23 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I'm using cygwin v1.5.5 under Win2K. uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 lisa 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin cygcheck -s -v -r is attached. A long time ago (11/7/2002) I reported a problem with GCC 3.2 20020818 that involved the mbstate_t structure. cgf quickly fixed it back th

Re: perl-5.8.1-1 problem

2003-08-28 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> This is my fault. I somehow made 5.8.1 the default. I've fixed this now > but it will take a while to propagate to mirrors. > > cgf Thanks, Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: ht

Re: perl-5.8.1-1 problem

2003-08-28 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> This perl is a test release which requires cygwin-1.5.3. Gerrit, I'm having the same problem. I updated in my normal way using setup.exe. I did not have the Exp radio button checked and am using 1.3.22. It seems like I shouldn't get this until 1.5.3 is the "Curr". I'm I missing something? Pet

Re: Seems a gcc update crept out without any announcement.

2002-11-10 Thread Peter J. Stieber
MB>> Seems a gcc update crept out without any announcement. MB>> MB>> Is there anything important/interesting in this new release? JB> If I understood this correctly, the new release fixes the "mbstate_t bug" that JB> was referred to in an earlier thread. That's what I indicated in my earlier mes

Re: mbstate_t bug still around

2002-11-09 Thread Peter J. Stieber
This problem is fixed by the latest GCC release (gcc-3.2-2.tar.bz2) . Thanks, Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

mbstate_t bug still around

2002-11-07 Thread Peter J. Stieber
I'm using cygwin v1.3.15 under Win2K CYGWIN_NT-5.0 NAME 1.3.15(0.63/3/2) 2002-11-07 13:57 i686 unknown My cygcheck.txt is attached. I tried to compile the following simple code "Sample.cpp" #include #include using n