Instability with signals and threads

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri Nov 28 21:13:00 GMT 2014


On 2014-11-21 14:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 21 14:06, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> On 2014-11-21 10:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Nov 21 16:50, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>>> On 11/21/2014 3:43 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>> On 32-bit. The rebuild of cygwin1.dll requires large number of packages to
>>>>>> create the documentation (including tex and java) and I haven't bloated
>>>>>
>>>>> Java?!?
>>>>
>>>> FOP is a Java application....grrr...
>>>
>>> Oh, right.
>>>
>>>> It will be nice to not use it for building cygwin docs.
>>>
>>> The html docs are not built with fop, only the pdf.  And even then,
>>> make from the parent dir continues to build everything else, even
>>> if make in the doc dir fails:
>>>
>>>    $(SUBDIRS):
>>> 	@${MAKE} -C $@ all || ([ "$@" == doc ] && echo "*** error ignored")
>>>
>>> If you have another way to create pdf files from xml input, which works
>>> on Cygwin and Linux, please feel free to provide one.
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2013-07/msg00008.html
>>
>> Which resulted in:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/viewvc/src/winsup/doc/Makefile.in?r1=1.33&r2=1.34
>>
>> Has this bug been fixed yet in TeX Live?  I had no problems building the
>> PDFs after reverting this commit.  I'll have to try on Fedora 20 and 21,
>> unless someone else can get to it first.
>
> Again, if you have another way to create pdf files from xml input, which
> works on Cygwin and Linux, please feel free to provide one.  I had no
> problems creating pdfs on Linux using fop, so I had no incentive to
> switch.  Just provide a patch to cygwin-patches.  If it works it's as
> good as applied.

For the archives:

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2014-q4/msg00016.html

--
Yaakov


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