On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 04:23:40PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Mar 26 12:36, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> building the documentation for octave with makeinfo >> I hit on cygwin-1.7 a similar issue than >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00564.html >> >> On cygwin-1.5 the same exact command on the same files >> completes successfully. >> >> Full strace is uploaded on >> http://matzeri.altervista.org/strace/ >> >> 1.6M makeinfo15_strace >> 3.1M makeinfo17_strace >> 270K makeinfo_strace.tar.xz (both compressed) >> >> >> $makeinfo -I.. octave-a4.texi >> >> octave-a4.texi:621: @include `package.texi': No such file or directory. >> octave-a4.texi:632: @include `dynamic.texi': No such file or directory. >> >> >> $ makeinfo -P.. octave-a4.texi >> octave-a4.texi:621: @include `package.texi': Too many open files. >> octave-a4.texi:632: @include `dynamic.texi': Too many open files > >The 1.7 strace shows a weird error message: > > seterrno_from_win_error: > /ext/build/netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-44/winsup/cygwin/cygheap.cc:140 windows > error 487 > >error 487 == "Attempt to access invalid address." > >It happens when trying to raise the size of the cygheap (used for >internal datastructures like file descriptor data) which apparently >occurs as a result of using so many files. The only reason I can think >of why this might occur is a collision with a DLL loaded at an address >not far from the end of Cygwin's cygheap, so that trying to VirtualAlloc >more memory, to make the cygheap bigger, fails. The default size of the >cygheap in 1.7.0-44 is ~900K and ends at 0x61300000. > >Maybe rebasing the DLLs makeinfo is linked against (cygiconv-2.dll, >cygintl-8.dll) helps? > >If not, it might be helpful if you could send a link to a tar archive >with all necessary input texi files to run makeinfo as above.
ldd /bin/makeinfo.exe might also be useful. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
