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)

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Corinna Vinschen >Sent: 01 March 2005 16:09 > 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

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 AT&T. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails rega

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

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

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

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

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 mysel

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

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 g

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 th

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 http://cygwin.

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

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 /

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
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 m

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 \ > /0007-02-2005-02-2

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

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

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

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 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 (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 (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 tha

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

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

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: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

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 Fayl

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

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 t

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 exp

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 thi

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 programmi

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 (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 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
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. Oth

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

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 >err

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 cy

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 bui

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

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

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

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 availa

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 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 wonderin

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 i

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 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 p

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 ne

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 b

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. >

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 (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 n

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 susp

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

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 s

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 tha

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 informa

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

Re: cygwin bughunt

2005-01-21 Thread David Dindorp
>> To: Cygwin List >> Subject: Re: cygwin bughunt >> >> 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

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

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/

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 meaningle

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 s

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

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 15:0

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 d

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 is

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 ba

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

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 th

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 bui