PING Jan Nieuwenhuizen re libguile17

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

    Hi Jan, if you're currently around,


  It looks to me as if cygguile-17.dll needs to be rebuilt with an up-to-date
gcc with the fix for throwing strings across dll boundaries.  As we discovered
in a recent thread[*], autogen crashes on exit[**], and it appears to be due
to a problem in libguile[***].  I tried rebuilding it from source with the
latest gcc, and it fixes the problem, at least for me; here's what happens
when you run an OOTB build of autogen against the current shipping version of
libguile17:

/tmp/autogen/autogen-5.9.4 $ cygcheck ./agen5/autogen.exe
agen5/autogen.exe
  G:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
    G:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL
      G:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL
      G:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.DLL
      G:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.DLL
  G:\cygwin\bin\cygguile-17.dll
    G:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypt-0.dll
    G:\cygwin\bin\cyggmp-3.dll
    G:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-8.dll
      G:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
    G:\cygwin\bin\cygltdl-3.dll
@_______. .
(       /"\
 ||--||(___)
 '"  '"'---'
/tmp/autogen/autogen-5.9.4 $ ./agen5/autogen.exe  < /dev/null
No definition data were read
AutoGen aborting on signal 11 (Segmentation fault) in state ABORTING
@_______. .
(       /"\
 ||--||(___)
 '"  '"'---'
/tmp/autogen/autogen-5.9.4 $

  And here's what happens when I try it with the rebuilt version of
libguile-17:


/tmp/autogen/autogen-5.9.4 $ cygcheck ./agen5/autogen.exe
agen5/autogen.exe
  G:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
    G:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.DLL
      G:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL
      G:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.DLL
      G:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.DLL
  T:\cygwin\build\install\bin\cygguile-17.dll
    G:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypt-0.dll
    G:\cygwin\bin\cyggmp-3.dll
    G:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-8.dll
      G:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
    G:\cygwin\bin\cygltdl-3.dll
@_______. .
(       /"\
 ||--||(___)
 '"  '"'---'
/tmp/autogen/autogen-5.9.4 $ ./agen5/autogen.exe  < /dev/null
No definition data were read
@_______. .
(       /"\
 ||--||(___)
 '"  '"'---'
/tmp/autogen/autogen-5.9.4 $


  So I wonder if you could verify which gcc package you built the libguile
release with.  If you wanted to test against autogen, I uploaded a tarball of
the build I was using[****], or it builds OOTB - if you have an updated
cygguile-17.dll, that is ...


    cheers,
      DaveK

[*] - http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00244.html
[**] - http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00247.html
[***] -
http://www.mail-archive.com/autogen-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00077.html
[****] -
http://rapidshare.com/files/85998958/autogen-5.9.4-0-strip.tar.bz2.html
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