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Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:05:14 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: make.exe stackdump from "make -j2" with current CVS source
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 08:23:36PM -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>>  Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:21:30 -0400
>>  From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
>>  
>>  It might be useful to set error_start_init to run gdb so that you can
>>  actively debug the process when it dies.  This has also been discussed
>>  here recently.
>
>All of my previous attempts to do this have failed for various
>reasons, but I'll try again because some of those reasons have been
>addressed.  If I still can't get it to work, I'll send details here
>and perhaps somebody can help me over the humps.
>
>Here's the gdbnw.bat which I'm setting error_start to:
>
>  C:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe -nw %1 %2
>
>Is this OK?

That's correct you would
set CYGWIN=error_start:c:/whatever/gdbnw.bat

and that should start gdb.

If it doesn't I mentioned a method for debugging this in the "Quick
testfeedback" thread.

cgf

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