Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/10/15/17:52:04
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:44:25PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>On Monday 15 Oct 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:38:42PM +0100, Robert Bogomip wrote:
>> > $ uname -a
>> > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 MACH 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown
>> >
>> >Right then. On my Win2000 (service pack 2) machine I've got two CPUs (733
>> >Coppermines). Thus I often do "make -j 3" for fast builds. Unfortunately,
>> >make often hangs on 1.3.3-2. This appears to be a bug of 1.3.3-2 (i.e.,
>> >it has always worked/continues to work with previous cygwin dll releases).
>>
>> This problem was mentioned in the release announcement.
>
>Do you mean this?
>
>On Wednesday 12 Sep 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
>> *** Known bugs:
>>
>> - There is a very sporadic core-dumping situation that seems to be
>> best triggered by recursive makes. We have not been able to track
>> down the cause of this problem after more than two weeks of trying. So,
>> since it has been proven to be very rare, I'm releasing 1.3.3 with this
>> known problem. If you can provide any insight on why this is happening
>> please send email with lots and lots of details to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com.
>> "Hey! It dies for me too!" emails will not be helpful unless you provide
>> either an exhaustive amount of detail (stack trace, easily reproducible
>> test case, patch). (Christopher Faylor)
>
>This mentions a core-dump, Robert describes a hang. Shall I add this
>to the "relnotes" part of the FAQ, in the "known bugs" section?
They are undoubtedly related but, you're right, I didn't mention a hang.
Jonathan Kamens did mention this prior to the 1.3.3 release and I neglected
to mention it in the release notes.
I guess it makes sense to mention it in the FAQ since it has now been asked
about several times.
cgf
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