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Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK
- From: Pete Brunet <pete at a11ysoft dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:35:53 -0600
- Subject: Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK
- References: <4B023172.5000102@a11ysoft.com> <4B028577.50604@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: pete at a11ysoft dot com
Thanks Dave, What is the proper way to upgrade the DLL?
Dave Korn wrote:
> Pete Brunet wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to build OpenJDK for several weeks now and have never
>> been able to get to the end of the build because of random failures.
>> Last night I had a hunch to turn off one of the cores in BIOS and after
>> doing that the problems have gone away. My system is a Lenovo T500,
>> Model 2081-CTO, with an Intel Core2 Duo P8700 at 2.53 GHz and 2 GB of
>> RAM running XP Pro SP3. The latest updates have been applied to the
>> Lenovo system and to XP. Some examples of failures:
>> - empty environment variables
>> - invalid environment variables
>> - files not found (possibly related to corrupted environment variables)
>>
>> Attached is my cygcheck.out file.
>>
>
> Well, ...
>
>
>> Cygwin DLL version info:
>> DLL version: 1.5.25
>>
>
> 1.5 is known to have bugs in this area. You can give 1.7 a try because I've
> fixed a number of race conditions; I'm pretty sure there are still more to be
> tracked down, but it's a good deal better.
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
>
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