Re: [ECOS] [eCos v1.3.1/net] Old-style path convention results in Run Tests error

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:30:18AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:36:22AM +0000, Bart Veer wrote:
>>>>>>> "cgf" == Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com> writes:
>>
>>    <snip>
>>    >> It isn't any more. Cygwin unfortunately only releases the last
>>    >> two versions of the DLL. This is causing us problems right now
>>    >> as both cygwin 1.3.19 and 1.3.20 have significant problems (in
>>    >> fact two in 1.3.20, one of which is easily corrected and has
>>    >> already been reported on the cygwin lists, and the other is
>>    >> still being investigated).
>>
>>    cgf> I don't see any problem reports from you in the cygwin
>>    cgf> mailing list wrt 1.3.20.
>>
>>    cgf> What are these issues you are referring to?
>>
>>The problem was only detected a day ago, and it is not clear yet
>>whether it is a cygwin or a gcc problem. If you are interested, the
>>details are as follows:
>>
>>1) you build a target toolchain, based around gcc 3.2.1, on XP using
>>   cygwin 1.3.18. (1.3.19 should not be used for this because gdb will
>>   use the cygwin version of vasprintf() rather than the libiberty
>>   one, and the resulting gdb will fail on any system that still uses
>>   1.3.19).
>>
>>2) that toolchain appears to work fine on XP and W2K using cygwin
>>   1.3.19 or 1.3.20, i.e. the two versions currently readily
>>   available.
>>
>>3) it also works fine on W98 using cygwin 1.3.19
>>
>>4) but on W98 with cygwin 1.3.20, xyz-gcc seems to suffer memory
>>   corruption problems.
>
>Sounds like it could be mmap issues.  mmap on Windows 95 is only
>partially implemented.  We did some work on mmap to solve other problems
>for 1.3.20.  Maybe we broke something on Windows 95.  There has been
>some additional work recently.  Does the latest Cygwin snapshot work any
>better?  I don't think the work that was done relates to the problem
>that you mention but maybe we'll get lucky.

Sorry.  You can substitute "Windows 98" wherever I mention Windows 95
above.

cgf

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