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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:00:21 -0400
From: John Peacock <jpeacock AT rowman DOT com>
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Subject: Re: test failures building perl on cygwin - continued
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:17:27AM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:22:40PM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
> >> >So it appears that both bleadperl and 5.6.1 have something that is not
> >> >clean under CygWin.  The next task is to build cygwin1.dll with the
> >> >additional memory debugging and try and track it down.
> >>
> >> IIRC, this was the "next step" that was suggested the last time this
> >> issue was raised.
> >
> >I have taken this step with 1.3.3, but I am still hampered by the now
> >identified gdb bug, which is what is really holding me back now.  Now
> >that I know that 1.3.3 is not going to play nice with gdb under a Win2K
> >workstation in an NT domain (is that qualified enough for you  ;~), I
> >need to go back and get a copy of the last 1.3.2 source and build the
> >augmented dll there.
> 
> What does building cygwin with malloc debugging have to do with gdb?
> You don't need gdb to use this.

No, but if I want to step through the code to see exactly where the
malloc goes awry, I need gdb, don't I.  I'll take a look at this next
week (I am leaving for a long weekend).  Point me at any other docs you
might think useful (like do I need to install a new cygwin root or can
I just copy over the cygwin1.dll?).

Thanks

John

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