[Cygwin64] dash segfault

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 10 00:05, Peter Rosin wrote:
> On 2013-03-09 13:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar  8 23:13, Peter Rosin wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I doubt there is a shortage of obscure things to track down in the land
> >> of 64-bit, but while building a package using the stuff from install/release
> >> I noticed a segfault in dash when it ran a libtool script to generate a
> >> dll. Retrying got the dll built correctly.
> >>
> >> Fact is, I do see segfaults once in a while, but retrying has always helped
> >> so far, so I haven't pursued it.
> >>
> >> How do I set up a debugger to get more info than the below stackdump?
> > 
> > I added a 64 bit Cygwin GDB package to the install area a couple
> > of days ago.  I guess a debug version of dash (especially built w/o
> > optimization) won't hurt either.
> 
> Ok, I recompiled dash locally (.../configure CFLAGS=-g --prefix=/usr)
> and used CYGWIN='error_start=C:\...\bin\dumper.exe' and got myself a
> core file...
> 
> Not much appears to be going on though, suggestions are welcome...

Hmm. What about error_start=C:\...\gdb.exe?  Maybe that gives you a bit
more "life" information.


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat