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From:	Andrew Chang <awc AT bitmover DOT com>
To:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: patch.exe crashed on cygwin-1.3.15-2 (ATTN: Cygwin patch maintainer!)
Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:43:23 -0800
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On Friday 08 November 2002 03:59 pm, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Andrew Chang <awc AT bitmover DOT com> wrote:
> > I just noticed that the binary compiled from patch-2.5-3-src.tar.bz2
> > simply crashed on startup.
> >
> > Here is what I did
> > a) install cygwin-1.3.15-2 from scratch
> > b) un-tar patch-2.5-3-src.tar.bz2 into  /tmp
> > c) cd /tmp/patch-2.5-3
> > d) ./configure
> > e) make
> > f) ./patch < /dev/null
> >      out of memorySegmentation fault (core dumped)
> >      (my trace indicate it died really early in main(); within the
> > first few line)
> >
> > (Note that the binary compiled under cygwin-1.3.12 works fine)
> >
> > Anyone seeing the same problem?
>
> Nope. I just tried it out myself, and it seems to work fine. (No segfault
> anyway)
> Send the output of cygcheck -srv to the list (as an attachment).
> Specifically, note that the 20021107-1 release of binutils is buggy.
>
> ATTN: Cygwin patch maintainer!
> The patch source tarball (patch-2.5-3-src.tar.bz2) has a .bz2 extension but
> is a *gzip* file!
>
> (And there is no CYGWIN-PATCHES or other recognized packaging scheme - but
> given that patch hasn't been updated in ages, thats not too surprizing.)

I just purged the 1.3.15-2 image, re-download and re-install everything.
This time it worked fine. (Something bad must have happended in the previous download/install)
Sorry about the false alarm..

Andrew

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