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Am 27.03.2010 17:37, schrieb Andy Koppe:
> Charles Wilson:
>> Hmm.  I remember having transient problems with svn and many of the
>> 1.7.0 snapshots, but they were intermittent and I had bigger fish to
>> fry.  I don't recall any issues with 1.7.1, nor am I having any trouble
>> with 1.7.2.  However, I would not be surprised if
>>
>> (a) the "problem" is some intermittent interaction between
>> cygwin-1.7.x's completely redesigned file name handling and an old,
>> statically-linked, compiled during the 1.5.x era, libltdl
>>
>> (b) the reason you didn't see it in 1.7.1 was just that -- it's
>> intermittent, and you didn't HAPPEN to see it during that 3-month window.
>>
>> (c) if libsasl2 had been linked against the DLL version of cygltdl, then
>> perhaps none of this would have happened -- since I try to keep the
>> officially distributed libtool more-or-less up to date, and rigorously
>> tested.
> 
> Not that I understand any of the details, but there've been changes to
> atexit() handling in 1.7.2; perhaps they're something to do with this.
> Might also tie into the thread about rxvt not exiting.

At least that would explain why I can breakpoint exit() with gdb tracing svn,
and it hangs if I continue into exit().

-- 
Matthias Andree

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