test failures building perl on cygwin - continued

[Christopher Faylor]

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.

cgf

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