X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 19:23:54 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ATTN pbzip2 maintainer Message-ID: <20120208182354.GA23481@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Feb 8 07:44, Hans Horn wrote: > Folks, > > using newest cygwin > (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.10(0.259/5/3) 2012-02-05 12:36 i686 Cygwin) > > invoking pbzip2 to unpack a large bz2 archive gives: > > pbzip2: *ERROR: fileWriter: pthread_cond_timedwait() call invalid > [pret=22]. This machine > does not have compatible pthreads library. Aborting. > Terminator thread: premature exit requested - quitting... > pbzip2: *INFO: Deletion of output file succeeded. > > pbzip2 --version: > Parallel BZIP2 v1.1.5 - by: Jeff Gilchrist [http://compression.ca] > [Jul. 16, 2011] (uses libbzip2 by Julian Seward) > Major contributions: Yavor Nikolov > > > I guess it needs rebuilding and/or to be updated to the latest > version (v1.1.6+) No, that's not the problem. Apparently the introduction of per-thread CPU-time clocks broke this application. The clock changes introduce new members in the datastructures which in turn change the layout and the size of these datastrucutures. In theory this should be under the hood and the applikation doesn't know about this, but somehow... I'll have a look with a debugger after dinner. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple