On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 07:32:16AM -0500, Norman Vine wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: > >> In the most recent cygwin snapshot (uploading now) I've attempted to >> work around the 10ms delay in pipe reads. > >< snip > > >> Please check out the latest snapshot and report here if there are >> problems. I haven't yet tried this on Windows 9x class systems so it's >> entirely possible that there is a problem there. > >With a Cygwin CVS tree I built this AM < (2) below > >rxvt has problems when configuring a project from a build directory > >ie >$TOP_DIR > src > build > >cd $TOP_DIR/build >../configure > >The problems vary from run to run ranging from 'error parsing uname' >to program hang < recoverable with 'ctrl-C' > making me suspect a >possible data loss > >Using the gcc option -pipe seems to allow the configure process >Using the -pipe flag I have not seen the uname error but it does >eventually hang when actually creating the Makefiles > >This project uses libtool > >With the CVS tree build (1) below I do not experience this > >(1) 10-Dec-2002 7:10:38a 6,683,847 cygwin-20021210.tar.gz >(2) 12-Dec-2002 6:09:42a 6,688,318 cygwin-20021212.tar.gz > >The times are EST and the tarballs are created by a script that >does a CVS update, make, make tarball which takes ~20 minutes >so the CVS update time should be approximately 20 minutes earlier > >Any 'tips' as to how to best debug this appreciated
- Attach to the hung process with gdb and see where it is hung. - Provide cygcheck output. - Run under strace and see if you can infer where hangs or problems are occurring. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/