Re: make-3.81-rc1 build error, msys 1.0.11, seg fault

[Matt England]

At 3/6/2006 06:58 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Matt England <address@hidden>:
> > Good call.  I was using an updated (something like 2.05b*) flavor of 
> > sh.exe for msys...and when I downgraded it back to 2.04.0(1) stuff, no 
> > more make-3.81rc1 ./configure problems.  :)
>
> Matt, you might want to download the bash source and fix it then submit a 
> patch to the MinGW SF Patch tracker.  The reason a snapshot exists is for 
> others to take a look at making it work.

Hi Earnie,

Yes, I would like to do my part to contribute to a community that already 
contributes so much stuff to me and my project's efforts.

Alas, I'm running a project of my own that we plan to be taking to the 
open-source community soon, and my time is really focused on that. (I am 
unable to talk about specifics until we get all our ducks in a row for the 
release.) We tend to, admittedly selfishly so, focus on the integration and 
bug-fixing in our embedded, external, open-source modules that absolutely 
need to be fixed for our solution to work.  As of right now, the apparent 
bash 2.05b bug does not appear to be a problem we need to fix right now to 
move forward.

For what it's worth, I'm hoping the project we deliver to the open-source 
"community" may prove useful to others in the same way that the dozens of 
open-source projects (including mingw/msys, make, postgresql, and on and 
on) have proved enormously useful to us.

In any case, I hope to be able to contribute more to other projects after 
my own project stabilizes.  This may not be for some time, as in months or 
maybe years, but I will try to squeeze in contributions where I or my team can.

-Matt