Re: MingW-related setup.exe crash w/ DEP enabled

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:54:05PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mar 17 13:30, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:45:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Mar 17 11:18, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:09:12PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >> >Strange enough, the same does not occur with the net setup built by cgf
>> >> >for some reason.  Chris, do you use an older MingW by any chance?
>> >> 
>> >> Yes.  I cross build setup and, while I periodically update my build
>> >> environment for Cygwin, I haven't updated it for MinGW for many years.
>> >
>> >Ok, so you better stick to it for the time being :|
>> 
>> ^C^C^C^C^C^C^C
>> 
>> Uh oh.
>
>Even if the crash is fixed now, you should better keep the old MingW
>version.  I tested the latest upx 3.04, and it still disallows to
>create compressed executables which have a .tls section.  I tried with
>a native Win32 build as well as with a Linux build of upx.

Ok.  I'll leave things unchanged.

Thanks for letting me know.

cgf