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Re: Minimal test case for Make crash bug
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Dan Kegel wrote:
Dan Kegel wrote:
> Got it. I'm attaching a minimal test case. glibc's makefile
> requires that Make be able to handle 140 levels of include recursion,
> but cygwin Make crashes after about 130 -- unless you're running
> under gdb or strace, in which case it works fine.
> To repeat the bug, just unpack the two attachments and run 'make'.
> If you have the bug, it will crash; otherwise it will echo a list
> of 140 words.
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> You should probably investigate using the CYGWIN environment variable
> "error_start" field:
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
>
> Also, please send the output of the stackdump file here.
I'm attaching make.exe.stackdump (another new feature of cygwin, cool).
Sadly, error_start didn't seem to be able to start gdb:
$ export CYGWIN=error_start:/usr/bin/gdb
$ make
*** starting debugger for pid 2156, tid 496
4 [main] make 2488 try_to_debug: Failed to start debugger: Win32
error 3
*** continuing pid 2156 from debugger call (0)
Signal 11
but hopefully the stackdump file will give you what you need.
- Dan
$ net helpmsg 3
The system cannot find the path specified.
I believe that the path after "error_start:" should be a Win32 path.
This could be better documented on the above page.
Igor
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