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Date:	Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:04:45 -0500 (EST)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To:	Fred Ma <fma AT doe DOT carleton DOT ca>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: "tee" is coredumping
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Fred Ma wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've got the latest cygwin 1.3.20-1, cygutils 1.1.3-1.
> The "tee" command is core dumping on me, but
> only with a particular set of circumstances.  I use
> it as follows:
>
>     make -f client.mak 2>&1 | tee client.out
>
> I realize this is not telling you a whole lot because
> it depends on what all happens in client.mak.  I don't
> get a core dump if I just do "ls 2>&1 | tee client.out".
> Here is the short contents of client.mak:
>
>      CC = gfilt
>
>      $(warning Hostname is $(HOSTNAME))
>      ifeq ($(HOSTNAME),fmalap)
>         $(warning Disabling Matlab engine code.)
>         NOML = -DNOML
>         LIBS =
>      else
>         NOML =
>              LIBS = -L /opt/matlab13/extern/lib/sol2 -leng -lmx
>      endif
>
>      client: client.cpp client.hpp client.mak
>              $(CC) $(NOML) -O -o client \
>              -I/opt/matlab13/extern/include \
>              client.cpp \
>         $(LIBS)
>
> The key in this file that seems to cause the crash is
> using CC=gfilt instead of g++.  "gfilt" is a perl script
> (or rather, a shell script that invokes perl) to decrypt
> the very confusing messages from the C++ standard
> library.
>
> I realize it's not realistic to ask "What's wrong", but
> perhaps a few strategies to isolate the problem?  I
> am no perl guy (I've used twice, like an overpowered
> sed script).  The perl version is 5.6.1-2, with gnu license.
> But perl is probably not the problem, since it's tee that's
> dumping.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Fred

"man addr2line".  "cd /bin && cygcheck tee.exe".  This should get you
started.
	Igor
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