Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 9 16:13, Eric Blake wrote:
>> The Autoconf testsuite is failing several tests on cygwin 1.7 that used to
>> pass
>> on cygwin 1.5. I've traced it to the fact that 1.7 is trying to be smarter
>> about deleting in-use files and directories, but doesn't quite get things
>> right.
>
> Incredible but true. It was an alignment problem with a local buffer
> in the function which moves the directory to the bin when a sharing
> violation occurs. This seems to be a new problem with gcc-4. As long
> as I built Cygwin with gcc-3, I never had this problem.
-vvvv? What alignment does the buffer require? What did it end up getting
with gcc-4?
cheers,
DaveK
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