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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.0.0-5


On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Apr 17 10:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Apr 16 12:53, Bryan Berns wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C
>> > <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> > > I am unable to start Cywin/X X-server 1.17.1 with this version.
>> > > Previous releases of 2.0.0.x were OK.  I had to revert to 1.7.35-1 for
>> > > the time being.
>> > >
>> > > Other than updating to 2.0.0.5, I also installed the April 2015 "Patch
>> > > Tuesday" updates from Microsoft.  I don't know if the two are related.
>> > >   Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit
>> > >
>> > > Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=77C50F8A
>> > > eax=00000000 ebx=612D67B0 ecx=00001000 edx=612D2648 esi=00000000 edi=0028C790
>> > > ebp=0028C608 esp=0028C604 program=C:\Cygwin\bin\XWin.exe, pid 1660, thread main
>> > > cs=0023 ds=002B es=002B fs=0053 gs=002B ss=002B
>> > > Stack trace:
>> > > Frame     Function  Args
>> > > 0028C608  77C50F8A (00000000, 612D2648, 00000000, 612D67B0)
>> > > 0028C738  610CDA1F (000043FF, 00000000, 00000000, 80012428)
>> > > 0028C7B8  61047198 (00000000, 72483F24, 75604227, 00000254)
>> > > 0028C7F8  610F629D (00000001, 00000000, 00000000, 75623912)
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
>> >
>> > I've actually had problem building Cygwin (1.7.35 or 2.x source) on
>> > Cygwin 2.x using Windows.  The make errors out with a "permissions
>> > denied" when setting permissions (chmod +x) on config.status in
>> > <builddir>/etc.  I was able to produce it on three different, freshly
>> > built copies of Windows (no BLODA at all).  Only had Cygwin plus the
>> > build essentials (gcc, ming, xmlto, diffutils, textinfo, cocom)
>> > installed.  Only tried with 32-bit.
>> >
>> > The super wacky thing is that if I rearrange the unrelated contents of
>> > the make file that fuels the whole process, the problem goes away.  If
>> > I "downgrade" the core back to 1.7.35, the problem goes away.  It
>> > almost seems like there might an uninitialized memory issue in the
>> > code path executed in chmod().  I apologize for the lack of debugging
>> > on my part, but I just wanted to throw this out there in case a) it
>> > could be related to this issue or b) anyone else has seen this.
>>
>> This is more in line with what Ismail reported in
>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-04/msg00365.html
>>
>> And I finally managed to reproduce it.  It works on the command line and
>> only fails during `make' for me.  Investigating now...
>
> I think I found the culprit.  I'll uploade a -0.7 test release in
> the next hour or so.
>
>
> Thanks for testing,
> Corinna
>
> --
> Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
> Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Red Hat

On my way to work now and probably will be offline most of the day,
but just wanted to let you know that I did a quick rip of the DLL file
from cygwin-2.0.0-0.7.tar.xz on the sourceware.org mirror and make /
chmod seems happier now.  Nice!  :-)

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