Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
Cristopher Faylor wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Bash seems to think that it's child has terminated prematurely. Has anyone experienced something similar? Being precise is one thing you could do. I tried my best. You could also provide cygcheck output as is suggested by

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:08:04AM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Cristopher Faylor wrote: Christopher Anyway, this sounds a lot like the bash problem which has been discussed here over the last several months (most heavily in the October time frame). If you aren't running bash-2.05b-17 then

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:58:53AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I went through the archives for October (anything related to bash), but couldn't find anything that seems related to me. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction (subject, link, anything)? Sorry, no. I'm not going to

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:35:30AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 07:58:53AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I went through the archives for October (anything related to bash), but couldn't find anything that seems related to me. Would you mind pointing me in the right

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
Christopher Faylor wrote (quotes rearranged wildly): If you are running your own version of bash, then all bets are off. Just double-checked. BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'. I thought I was running 3.00 on Cygwin (I am on all other platforms), but apparently I was just making an ass of

RE: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: David Dindorp Sent: 01 March 2005 15:17 Christopher Faylor wrote (quotes rearranged wildly): If you are running your own version of bash, then all bets are off. Just double-checked. BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'. I thought I was running 3.00 on Cygwin

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
Dave Korn wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Just double-checked. BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'. I thought I was running 3.00 on Cygwin (I am on all other platforms), but apparently I was just making an ass of myself on a public mailing list (again?) Welcome to our world! Version number

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:42:52PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Dave Korn wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Just double-checked. BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'. I thought I was running 3.00 on Cygwin (I am on all other platforms), but apparently I was just making an ass of myself on a public

RE: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Christopher Faylor Sent: 01 March 2005 15:49 On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:42:52PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Dave Korn wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Just double-checked. BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'. I thought I was running 3.00 on Cygwin (I am on all

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 16:02, Dave Korn wrote: Oh well. Time to install U/WIN? Micro$fot are thinking of renaming that. It's now going to be called THEY/WIN/WE/ALL/LOSE. You mean Interix, don't you? U/Win is from ATT. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-03-01 Thread David Dindorp
In the meanwhile, does anybody have any comments to offer regarding this? (Besides stop asking, that is...) Bash hangs. Both occurrences have been at the same specific script line, and both produce similar gdb output. Script line: lffields[$counter]=`echo $lfline|cut -d'|' -f$fieldno`

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-02-28 Thread David Dindorp
Bash seems to think that it's child has terminated prematurely. Has anyone experienced something similar? Evidence: See the order of execution in the script below, compare with what bash does (further below). Version: snapshot 20050226 / bash 3.0. If I'm grossly missing anything from my error

RE: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-02-28 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: David Dindorp Sent: 28 February 2005 17:54 Evidence: See the order of execution in the script below, compare with what bash does (further below). Log file: == +++ tar --remove-files --ignore-failed-read -cvf \

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-02-28 Thread David Dindorp
Dave Korn wrote: Hmm. You appear to have told tar to create the output archive in the root directory of the filing system. Hm, actually $arcrfname contains a full path, including /cygdrive/c/... I cut it from the script and output because it made it entirely unreadable (partly related to my

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 06:53:50PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Bash seems to think that it's child has terminated prematurely. Has anyone experienced something similar? Evidence: See the order of execution in the script below, compare with what bash does (further below). Version: snapshot

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-02-28 Thread David Dindorp
Cristopher Faylor wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Bash seems to think that it's child has terminated prematurely. Has anyone experienced something similar? Evidence: See the order of execution in the script below, compare with what bash does (further below). Version: snapshot 20050226 / bash 3.0.

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot)

2005-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:44:46PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Cristopher Faylor wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Bash seems to think that it's child has terminated prematurely. Has anyone experienced something similar? Evidence: See the order of execution in the script below, compare with what bash

Re: cygwin bughunt (snapshot...)

2005-02-22 Thread David Dindorp
Christopher Faylor wrote: If that was really true, you'd be using a snapshot by now. Ok, ok, I can take a hint (sort of). I'll give up trying to drill down bugs in 1.5.10. Has the problem been found that results in this error?: MapViewOfFileEx(0x188, in_h 0x188) failed, Win32 error 6 At

Re: cygwin bughunt (Jip-hee!)

2005-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:29:38AM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: The test were performed with 1.5.10-3, as newer versions call upon me all sorts of other problems and thus can't be pushed to the failing box right now. Btw, I urge everyone to try the latest cygwin snapshot!

Re: cygwin bughunt (Jip-hee!)

2005-02-18 Thread David Dindorp
Christopher Faylor wrote: Ah, yes! You're the you don't want people to debug cygwin because you aren't spoon feeding me debugging information guy! That is nowhere near what was said. I said you should provide debugging versions of Cygwin, since large software packages are hell to build. I

Re: cygwin bughunt (Jip-hee!)

2005-02-17 Thread David Dindorp
Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, we do. We provide the source code. It's easy to build. You are right; I was wrong. Building Cygwin is easy. (At least when it comes to newer versions :-p.) It even compiles under itself. *impressed*. It's been a few weeks, and I've tested with the debug

Re: cygwin bughunt (Jip-hee!)

2005-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:23:42PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, we do. We provide the source code. It's easy to build. You are right; I was wrong. Building Cygwin is easy. (At least when it comes to newer versions :-p.) It even compiles under itself.

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread David Dindorp
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Umm, that was my bad. The thing is, --enable-debugging really produces a developer debug version, with extra tracing, etc. If all you want is a version of DLL with all the symbols (i.e., unstripped), the regular build produces that as well. Cristopher Faylor wrote:

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread David Dindorp
Ack! Apologies for the formatting. The company I'm employed at uses Outlook (thereby MS-WORD) for e-mail. Here's what I wanted to say: The FAQ entry 105 links to entry 102 under how to compile. Shouldn't this point to 104 instead? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:29:29 +0100, David Dindorp wrote: How about adding a line in the FAQ to the how to build cygwin (104) entry stating that the configure ; make mentioned does produce a Cygwin with all debugging symbols? And the link in the FAQ is wrong: How can I debug cygwin

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:36:50 -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:29:29 +0100, David Dindorp wrote: And the link in the FAQ is wrong: How can I debug cygwin (entry 105) says: To build a debugging version of the Cygwin DLL, you will need to follow the

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Fixed. By the way, does anyone know exactly what Devel packages are required to build Cygwin? I used to just think install everything but now there's a lot of new X or GNOME related stuff. I know I've got more than I need installed, but I'm thinking that would

Re: cygwin bughunt (using snapshot)

2005-01-25 Thread David Dindorp
Cristopher Faylor wrote: Again, this doesn't address your immediate concern. A snapshot is your best bet. Using the snapshot in the test environment, I now get these errors: sleep.exe (1924): *** MapViewOfFileEx(0x188, in_h 0x188) failed, Win32 error 6 Any ideas why this occurs? Can you

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-25 Thread David Dindorp
Cristopher Faylor wrote: Actually, we do. We provide the source code. It's easy to build. On your particular system which is tuned to do precisely this, maybe. If it's as easy as you say, I'll spend some more time on it. Have you even tried it? No. For a couple of reasons. 1. Prior

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, David Dindorp wrote: Cristopher Faylor wrote: Actually, we do. We provide the source code. It's easy to build. On your particular system which is tuned to do precisely this, maybe. If it's as easy as you say, I'll spend some more time on it. Have you even tried it?

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:07:18PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, David Dindorp wrote: Cristopher Faylor wrote: Actually, we do. We provide the source code. It's easy to build. On your particular system which is tuned to do precisely this, maybe. If it's as easy as

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-23 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:42:15PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Yep, I missed that. It's gone, but with the other FAQ additions it moved: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#SEC104 On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:46:41 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: This feels vaguely like I'm programming in

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-22 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
OK the three FAQs beginning at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#SEC102 now read: How do I build Cygwin on my own? First, you need to get the Cygwin source. Ideally, you should check out what you need from CVS (http://cygwin.com/cvs.html). This is the preferred method for acquiring the sources.

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: To build a debugging version of the Cygwin DLL, you will need to follow the instructions at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC102, adding the `--enable-debugging' option to `../configure'. You can also contact the mailing

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-22 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: To build a debugging version of the Cygwin DLL, you will need to follow the instructions at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC102, adding the `--enable-debugging' option to `../configure'. You can also contact the

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:42:15PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: To build a debugging version of the Cygwin DLL, you will need to follow the instructions at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC102, adding the

Re: cygwin bughunt

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
It's a bit more complicated than that, but thank you for the valuable input :-). Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dindorp Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 1:13 PM To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: cygwin

Re: cygwin bughunt (fyi)

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
Christopher Faylor wrote: David Dindorp wrote: The snapshots page says that it's a stripped version. Who should I trust, the snapshot page or the FAQ? You should trust me when I tell you that the snapshots haven't been stripped recently. You sound authoritative. I'll do that. There's an

Re: cygwin bughunt (more FAQ stuff)

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Well, how about this then: [snip] Here's my shot at what would've helped me a lot when I initially faced problems. Of course providing as much info as below will only leave you with more newbies crying 'cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06' or such. + More

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 20 17:00, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:47:33PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Sure, how about this: I've found a bug in Cygwin, how can I debug it? Debugging symbols are stripped from distibuted Cygwin binaries, so any symbols that you see in

RE: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Hughes, Bill
Christopher Faylor wrote: ..snip.. The snapshots page says that it's a stripped version. Who should I trust, the snapshot page or the FAQ? You should trust me when I tell you that the snapshots haven't been stripped recently. However, oops, this means that the advice of using a snapshot

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 11:18, Hughes, Bill wrote: I don't think I'm putting this very well, but it may make the FAQ easier if the standard advice is to load the snaphot and use that for debugging, it removes a separate layer of potential problems in building the dll. I suspect the people who would want a

RE: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Hughes, Bill
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 21 11:18, Hughes, Bill wrote: I don't think I'm putting this very well, but it may make the FAQ easier if the standard advice is to load the snaphot and use that for debugging, it removes a separate layer of potential problems in building the dll. I suspect the

Re: cygwin bughunt (out-of-the-box debugging)

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
Bill Hughes wrote: I don't think I'm putting this very well, but it may make the FAQ easier if the standard advice is to load the snaphot and use that for debugging, it removes a separate layer of potential problems in building the dll. And there's still the issue that problems that are

Re: cygwin bughunt (using snapshot)

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
Again, this doesn't address your immediate concern. A snapshot is your best bet. Using the snapshot in the test environment, I now get these errors: rm.exe (2512): *** MapViewOfFileEx(0x1D0, in_h 0x1D0) failed, Win32 error 6 awk.exe (1164): *** MapViewOfFileEx(0x1B0, in_h 0x1B0) failed, Win32

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:44:39PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 20 17:00, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: This must be modulated by the warnings on the snapshot page, so I would recommend an initial step: write to the list, describe the bug and ask for a recommended snapshot. Should

Re: cygwin bughunt (fyi)

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:38:35AM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: David Dindorp wrote: The snapshots page says that it's a stripped version. Who should I trust, the snapshot page or the FAQ? You should trust me when I tell you that the snapshots haven't been stripped

Re: cygwin bughunt (more FAQ stuff)

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:47:20AM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Well, how about this then: [snip] Here's my shot at what would've helped me a lot when I initially faced problems. Of course providing as much info as below will only leave you with more newbies

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:15:53PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 21 11:18, Hughes, Bill wrote: I don't think I'm putting this very well, but it may make the FAQ easier if the standard advice is to load the snaphot and use that for debugging, it removes a separate layer of potential

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:15:53PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 21 11:18, Hughes, Bill wrote: I don't think I'm putting this very well, but it may make the FAQ easier if the standard advice is to load the snaphot and use that for

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 21 11:53, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:15:53PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: IMHO you're looking from the wrong direction. People capable of debugging the Cygwin DLL are usually also capable of building it. I'm

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
Corinna Vinschen wrote: IMHO you're looking from the wrong direction. People capable of debugging the Cygwin DLL are usually also capable of building it. The only reason that the above is true is because you do not provide the means for people to debug the Cygwin DLL properly. I'm wondering

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:53:25AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Also agreed. But the source provided in the cygwin source package is worthless for debugging, since one can't build Cygwin from that source. If debugger symbols were available, that source would actually be useful. :-) Huh?

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:53:25AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Also agreed. But the source provided in the cygwin source package is worthless for debugging, since one can't build Cygwin from that source. If debugger symbols were available,

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:02:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: tar xjf cygwin-1.5.12-1-src.tar.bz2 cd cygwin-1.5.12-1 mkdir build cd build (../configure; make) make.out It does make sense to check CVS or a snapshot to see if your problem is fixed before you go to any

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:26:39PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:53:25AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Also agreed. But the source provided in the cygwin source package is worthless for debugging, since one can't

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:45:44PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:02:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: tar xjf cygwin-1.5.12-1-src.tar.bz2 cd cygwin-1.5.12-1 mkdir build cd build (../configure; make) make.out It does make sense to check CVS or a

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:47:20PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:45:44PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:02:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: tar xjf cygwin-1.5.12-1-src.tar.bz2 cd cygwin-1.5.12-1 mkdir build cd

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 05:28:38PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:47:20PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:45:44PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:02:33PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: tar xjf

Re: cygwin bughunt (using snapshot)

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:08:06PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Again, this doesn't address your immediate concern. A snapshot is your best bet. Using the snapshot in the test environment, I now get these errors: sleep.exe (1924): *** MapViewOfFileEx(0x188, in_h 0x188) failed, Win32 error 6

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:04:50PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: IMHO you're looking from the wrong direction. People capable of debugging the Cygwin DLL are usually also capable of building it. The only reason that the above is true is because you do not provide the means

Re: cygwin bughunt

2005-01-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:08 PM 1/20/2005, you wrote: Does no-one have any information on this? Apparently not. ;-) I have the following suggestions/questions: 1. Did you try a Cygwin 1.5.12 or even a snapshot? 2. Is this a local debug build of Cygwin or stock 1.5.10. If the latter, you might find

Re: cygwin bughunt

2005-01-20 Thread David Dindorp
Larry Hall wrote: I have the following suggestions/questions: 1. Did you try a Cygwin 1.5.12 or even a snapshot? No. I'm using 1.5.10, and it still smells *real* fresh, I think ;-). Also, the problem only occurs on a customer system which unfortunately I can't go around and upgrade all the

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:12:31PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Larry Hall wrote: I have the following suggestions/questions: 1. Did you try a Cygwin 1.5.12 or even a snapshot? No. I'm using 1.5.10, and it still smells *real* fresh, I think ;-). Also, the problem only occurs on a customer

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-20 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:12:31PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Tracking it down with GDB to cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06 was easy. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:04:55 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Since cygwin isn't built with debugging symbols, the symbols that you do see in gdb are

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:47:33PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:12:31PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Tracking it down with GDB to cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06 was easy. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:04:55 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Since cygwin isn't built

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:12:31PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Tracking it down with GDB to cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06 was easy. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:04:55 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Since cygwin isn't built with debugging

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:29:36PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:12:31PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: Tracking it down with GDB to cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06 was easy. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:04:55 -0500,

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:47:33PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Sure, how about this: I've found a bug in Cygwin, how can I debug it? Debugging symbols are stripped from distibuted Cygwin binaries, so any symbols that you see in gdb are basically meaningless. It is also a good

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-20 Thread David Dindorp
David Dindorp wrote: Tracking it down with GDB to cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06 was easy. Christopher Faylor wrote: Since cygwin isn't built with debugging symbols, the symbols that you do see in gdb are basically meaningless. Isn't there any way to compile the debugging symbols into a

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:56:14AM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: David Dindorp wrote: Tracking it down with GDB to cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06 was easy. Christopher Faylor wrote: Since cygwin isn't built with debugging symbols, the symbols that you do see in gdb are basically meaningless.

RE: cygwin bughunt

2005-01-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dindorp Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 1:13 PM To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: cygwin bughunt Larry Hall wrote: I have the following suggestions/questions: 1. Did you try a Cygwin

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-20 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:24:03 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: However, oops, this means that the advice of using a snapshot shouldn't go into the FAQ since this isn't a permanent arrangement. Well, how about this then: I may have found a bug in Cygwin, how can I debug it (the symbols in gdb