X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:04:51 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-texinfo@gnu.org, bug-automake@gnu.org Subject: Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex Message-ID: <20060527170451.GD5068@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-texinfo@gnu.org, bug-automake@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-texinfo@gnu.org, bug-automake@gnu.org References: <20060526044620.GA6330@iam.uni-bonn.de> <200605262321.k4QNLGX31194@f7.net> <20060525063820.GA6327@iam.uni-bonn.de> <200605252204.k4PM4Fk08988@f7.net> <20060526044620.GA6330@iam.uni-bonn.de> <20060526052813.GB17984@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20060527080519.GA6340@iam.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060527080519.GA6340@iam.uni-bonn.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:05:20AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >Hi Karl, Christopher, > >* Karl Berry wrote on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:21:16AM CEST: >> >> [Excluding cygwin, I doubt they care about this part.] > >Oh yes they will care especially about this part. ;-) > >> $ texindex ./main.au ./main.cp ./main.pg ./main.sb >> Segmentation fault (core dumped) >> >> Regrettably, with both the texindex in the released 4.8, and the >> texindex from current CVS, I get no seg fault on GNU/Linux (x86). > >That's because the bug isn't in GNU texinfo-4.8, but in the Cygwin >package texinfo-4.8-2. > >* Christopher Faylor wrote on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:28:13AM CEST: >> That's apparently a call to mktemp, although I can't tell what's causing >> the problem. >> >> Setting the CYGWIN environment variable to error_start:gdb might help >> with finding what the argument to mktemp is. > >Thanks for those hints. It turns out to be mktemp. > >Running under gdb (or with CYGWIN set accordingly) doesn't help much if >you don't have source and debugging symbols are not compiled in. So I >learned that Cygwin allows to install source packages, rebuilt >texinfo-4.8-2, and also built the pristine texinfo-4.8 from gnu.org. >The latter worked fine, the former crashes. The diff between both is >shown at the end of this message. Thanks very much for looking into it. I released a new version of texinfo last night. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/