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On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:18:56PM -0500, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>While attempting to package eric3, python (2.4.3-1) just segfaults on
>the included install.py script before it can do anything else.  This
>used to work with cygwin-1.5.18-1 and python-2.4.1-1, and since I've
>had similar problems with cygwin-1.5.19-4 and python-2.4.1-1, I'm
>fairly sure that cygwin1.dll (both 1.5.19-4 and 20060529 snapshot) is
>the culprit here.
>
>Note that python is otherwise working normally (e.g.  distutils,
>pygtk2, etc.).
>
>I've attached the install.py script, its backtrace, and cygcheck
>output.

Unless I'm missing something, the backtrace is useless and probably doesn't
show a real problem.  It is just YA example of the "OMG! I get SIGSEGV's in
GDB!!!!" problem which we must discuss every day here.

cgf

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