Re: Crash fix on Windows/MinGW

[Eric PAIRE]

Hello Stepan & Paul,

I used the wrong 'autoconf' for doing additional tests. You patch is actually
working correctly.

Sorry for the bad report,
Eric

Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:55:11AM +0200, Eric PAIRE wrote:
> > Thanks.... But it does not work anymore on MinGW, as 'config.log' is not 
> > closed before 'configure' is called, so that config.log is not truncated 
> > before configure writes in it.
> >   
>
> oops, I'm sorry for that.  But I'd like to understand the cause of
> the error.
>
> >From your original mail, I gathered that "./config.status --recheck" fails,
> because config.status opens redirects AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD to 'config.log'
> and then ../src/configure is not able to truncate it.
>
> With my patch, "config.status" should not touch 'config.log', so the
> situation should be the same as if ../src/configure were called directly
> from the command line.
>
> Who has config.log open, then?
>
> Thank you in advance for any clarification.
>
> Have a nice day,
> 	Stepan Kasal