1.5.25(0.156/4/2): Problem compiling OpenLDAP 2.3.39 due to Win XP SP3 or Cygwin?
Mary
mary@ru.is
Wed Sep 10 21:12:00 GMT 2008
*Ooops, sorry, I should have said: I'm using win xp and cygwin but not
openLDAP.
Mary
Mary wrote:
> Worked fine for me, appart from the initial:
> "rm: cannot remove `file*': No such file or directory"
> which is normal. I ended up with a directory only containing your script.
>
> Mary
>
>
> Allan Schrum wrote:
>
>> I created a small script to see if I could simplify the problem to
>> something more easily debugged. Turns out the following script will
>> cause problems that should not be caused which I believe lie at the
>> heart of my problem compiling OpenLDAP. Run this in an empty directory
>> somewhere:
>>
>> ===== begin script =====
>> #! /bin/bash
>>
>> let i=0
>>
>> rm file*
>>
>> while [ $i -lt 2000 ]
>> do
>> touch file$i
>> if [ ! -f file$i ]
>> then
>> echo missing file$i
>> fi
>>
>> let i=i+1
>> done
>>
>> rm file*
>> ====== end script ======
>>
>> The resulting output is:
>>
>> missing file281
>> missing file1940
>>
>> A second run resulted in:
>>
>> missing file561
>> missing file1197
>> missing file1451
>> missing file1511
>> missing file1716
>>
>> Obviously, this should not happen. The file system is NTFS on my laptop.
>> Can anyone else replicate this problem with this simple script? It seems
>> to be somewhat dependent upon other disk activity, but not in a
>> deterministic manner.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Allan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
>> Of Allan Schrum
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:41 AM
>> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>> Subject: 1.5.25(0.156/4/2): Problem compiling OpenLDAP 2.3.39 due to Win
>> XP SP3 or Cygwin?
>>
>> I have a script which builds a sandbox and recompiles OpenLDAP 2.3.39.
>> The script takes the sources (locally stored) and extracts, compiles,
>> and installs in a sandbox OpenLDAP. These scripts are in Subversion and
>> have not changed nor has the source code for OpenLDAP. Normally, they
>> work without any problems.
>>
>> I have recently upgraded my Windows XP box to SP3 and also upgraded
>> Cygwin to the latest:
>> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 mymachine 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
>>
>> Now, this script fails in a random fashion. The failure modes appear to
>> be associated with the existence or lack of existence for various files.
>> It is as if the files are not always found when the script runs. For
>> instance, the "configure" script may run and not detect the "regex.h"
>> include file and fail. If I clear out all sandboxes and start again, it
>> may work or fail for a different reason. One time it failed because it
>> could not detect the output file type of the C compiler! An example
>> failure is here:
>>
>> checking for pthread_kill... yes
>> checking for pthread_rwlock_destroy... yes
>> checking for pthread_detach with <pthread.h>... no
>> configure: error: could not locate pthread_detach()
>>
>> However, running it again (after cleaning sandboxes) gets past that fake
>> problem and fails for other reasons. For example:
>>
>> checking for pthread_kill... yes
>> checking for pthread_rwlock_destroy... yes
>> checking for pthread_detach with <pthread.h>... yes
>> checking for pthread_setconcurrency... yes
>> checking for pthread_getconcurrency... yes
>>
>> The failures are not always the same. All of the failures seem to be
>> associated with the ability of the software to detect the existence of
>> files or directories.
>>
>> Since two things changed since this last worked, the obvious possibility
>> is that this is related to upgrading to Windows XP SP3, or is related to
>> the latest upgrade of Cygwin. Has anyone experienced anything like this?
>>
>> I have attached an old (when it worked) copy of cygcheck -s -r as well
>> as a recent copy.
>>
>> Is there a simple way to go back to an older Cygwin version? I can do
>> that and then check to see if this is associated with Win XP SP3 or the
>> newer Cygwin. Uninstalling Win XP SP3 is not easily done.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Allan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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