latest libstdc++ causing ffmpeg & mplayer to segfault

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri Oct 2 05:40:00 GMT 2009


On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 11:01:03PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>On 01/10/2009 19:52, Dave Korn wrote:
>>    Correction: the fixes in the snapshot are sufficient for now, and will allow
>> mplayer to work.  (There appears to be something else buggy on head that was
>> confounding my efforts to test a fix.)
>>
>>    There is still I think a potential loophole that we just haven't done
>> anything complex to run up enough against yet, but it's not going to cause
>> trouble this week, I think.
>
>Am I correct that the real fix for this is simply rebuilding with a new 
>enough libcygwin.a?  And exactly which versions were faulty?

Yes, you're correct.

I posted the faulty versions a while ago:

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:48:27AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I can say that any DLL built with cygwin-1.7.0-51 - cygwin-1.7.0-56
>is probably suspect.  That's 2009-07-13 - 2009-08-13 .

cgf

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