Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3BCF42E5.5DD26FB2@rowman.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:00:21 -0400 From: John Peacock MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: test failures building perl on cygwin - continued References: <3BCC5FD7 DOT 24008 DOT 6FFFE4 AT localhost> <20011016173901 DOT Q21328 AT alpha DOT hut DOT fi> <3BCC5401 DOT 768E5222 AT rowman DOT com> <3BCD9F5D DOT F67DDDCD AT rowman DOT com> <3BCDB050 DOT EF9A06C1 AT rowman DOT com> <20011017175510 DOT A5672 AT redhat DOT com> <3BCED667 DOT 833A308C AT rowman DOT com> <20011018142538 DOT B27432 AT redhat DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/