Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <36FF8E14.F77F1C98@iit.nrc.ca> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:28:38 -0500 From: "Charles Gauthier" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: N8TM AT aol DOT com CC: pof AT uvic DOT ca, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: problem building egcs-1.1.2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit N8TM AT aol DOT com wrote: > In a message dated 3/26/99 6:35:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, > Charles DOT Gauthier AT iit DOT nrc DOT ca writes: > > > all execution tests fail under cygwin > This has been my experience under NT (cygnus installed on //d), but not under > W95 (//d is a zip drive). Maybe you're right about the drive name thing; that > was true of all software running under cygwin snapshots for a while, but not > recently. > So far, I only found that the expect interpreter has the pathname problem. All other cygwin tools appear ok. /// did not work either. It had to be a relative path, or start with a dirver letter and colon. > > >The dejagnu framework appears to be very unstable under cygwin. During > execute > >tests, I appear to get SEGV signals at random. I just don't trust the test > >results; every test passes until a SEGV stops the testing of a given suite. > > Several of the tests generate intentional access violations, and the cygwin > expect doesn't recover. I'd like to see a solution. > In my experience, successive runs of the same tests crash at different points, hence my statement that I get SEGV signals at random. > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Charles-Antoine Gauthier Research Officer Software Engineering Group Institute for Information Technology National Research Council of Canada Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0R6 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com