Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/20/14:20:11
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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