Re: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Johnson
I installed the below-mentioned latex 3.0.0-2 packages on cygwin 1.5.14-1 (WinXP) and it seems to work fine. Thanks to all who contributed to clarifying the problem and to Jan for providing the fix. -Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: It indeed segfaults under wine; it seems th

Re: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Bertalan Fodor writes: > It also faults on WinXP, so something have regressed between your test > versions and the 3.0.0-1 version. Ah, thanks for the info. It indeed segfaults under wine; it seems the actual release has not been tested. This was probably when I rebuilt to add the trivial updma

Re: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:35:44PM +0200, Bertalan Fodor wrote: >I tried strace tex.exe, but gave no clues. >It also faults on WinXP, so something have regressed between your test >versions and the 3.0.0-1 version. strace is not likely to help with an application (i.e., tex/latex) problem. cgf

Re: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-04 Thread Bertalan Fodor
I tried strace tex.exe, but gave no clues. It also faults on WinXP, so something have regressed between your test versions and the 3.0.0-1 version. 32 29536 [main] tex 3396 fhandler_base::open: (C:\cygwin\bin\tex.exe, 0x11) 83 29619 [main] tex 3396 fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x1

RE: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen >Sent: 04 April 2005 08:57 > Bernhard Ege writes: > >> I tried running latex with strace: >> >> $ strace latex >> One or more CON code pages invalid for given keyboard code >> >> And a windows saying: >> Title: 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem >> ~ >> Th

Re: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Bernhard Ege writes: > I tried running latex with strace: > > $ strace latex > One or more CON code pages invalid for given keyboard code > > And a windows saying: > Title: 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem > ~ > The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. That's odd, comparing it with gdb > $ g

Re: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-03 Thread Bernhard Ege
Dave Johnson wrote: Hello all, Today I upgraded to cygwin 1.5.14-1, and now latex coredumps immediate upon execution. It doesn't matter what latex source file is used, or even if none is used: $ latex Segmentation fault (core dumped) Latex worked fine under the version available in December 2004 (

Re: latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-03 Thread Andrew Chi
Same thing as reported by R.M. and D.J., but perhaps different system. On XP SP2, "immediate" segfault of tetex-3.0.0-1 on startup for both cygwin-1.5.13-1 and cygwin-1.5.14-1. But note that the command "pdfetex -version" does not segfault; maybe there's a problem with the part which tries to rea

latex coredumps on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-03 Thread Dave Johnson
Hello all, Today I upgraded to cygwin 1.5.14-1, and now latex coredumps immediate upon execution. It doesn't matter what latex source file is used, or even if none is used: $ latex Segmentation fault (core dumped) Latex worked fine under the version available in December 2004 (sorry, I don't remem