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Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex
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Christopher Faylor |
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Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex |
Date: |
Sat, 27 May 2006 13:04:51 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:05:20AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>Hi Karl, Christopher,
>
>* Karl Berry wrote on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:21:16AM CEST:
>>
>> [Excluding cygwin, I doubt they care about this part.]
>
>Oh yes they will care especially about this part. ;-)
>
>> $ texindex ./main.au ./main.cp ./main.pg ./main.sb
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>
>> Regrettably, with both the texindex in the released 4.8, and the
>> texindex from current CVS, I get no seg fault on GNU/Linux (x86).
>
>That's because the bug isn't in GNU texinfo-4.8, but in the Cygwin
>package texinfo-4.8-2.
>
>* Christopher Faylor wrote on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:28:13AM CEST:
>> That's apparently a call to mktemp, although I can't tell what's causing
>> the problem.
>>
>> Setting the CYGWIN environment variable to error_start:gdb might help
>> with finding what the argument to mktemp is.
>
>Thanks for those hints. It turns out to be mktemp.
>
>Running under gdb (or with CYGWIN set accordingly) doesn't help much if
>you don't have source and debugging symbols are not compiled in. So I
>learned that Cygwin allows to install source packages, rebuilt
>texinfo-4.8-2, and also built the pristine texinfo-4.8 from gnu.org.
>The latter worked fine, the former crashes. The diff between both is
>shown at the end of this message.
Thanks very much for looking into it. I released a new version of
texinfo last night.
cgf
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex (was: failed checks for automake 1.9.6), (continued)
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex (was: failed checks for automake 1.9.6), Karl Berry, 2006/05/20
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex (was: failed checks for automake 1.9.6), Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/05/23
- RE: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex (was: failed checks for automake 1.9.6), Dave Korn, 2006/05/24
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/05/24
- RE: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex (was: failed checks for automake 1.9.6), Karl Berry, 2006/05/24
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/05/25
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Karl Berry, 2006/05/25
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/05/26
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Karl Berry, 2006/05/26
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- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/05/27
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex,
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- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Karl Berry, 2006/05/27
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- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Christopher Faylor, 2006/05/28
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Christopher Faylor, 2006/05/28
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Karl Berry, 2006/05/28
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/05/28
- Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex, Christopher Faylor, 2006/05/28