Thread-related segfault with cygwin 1.5.19-4

2006-06-20 Thread Jon S. Berndt
I've compiled and rebuilt the FlightGear application under a fresh installation of cygwin (I've been doing this for years, now) and when running flightgear I get a segfault at startup - something I've not seen before. When running under gdb, this is the message I get: Program received signal

Re: Thread-related segfault with cygwin 1.5.19-4

2006-06-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Jon S. Berndt wrote: When running under gdb, this is the message I get: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x610ae938 in pthread_key_create () from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll Typing where in gdb gives this trace: (gdb) where #0 0x610ae938 in pthread_key_create () from

RE: Thread-related segfault with cygwin 1.5.19-4

2006-06-20 Thread Jon S. Berndt
What you are seeing: - does not represent an actual problem in the pthread library - is not an actual segfault - is a bug/misfeature in gdb that has been fixed in CVS - can be worked around just by typing c or continue - has been discussed in depth, at length, ad infinitum, over and over

Re: Thread-related segfault with cygwin 1.5.19-4

2006-06-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Jon S. Berndt wrote: via various google searches, and asking other developers for help. I searched the cygwin mailing list archives, and checked the cygwin FAQ (Known problems ...). Even though this is not a real cygwin problem, if this question gets asked so often, it might be worth adding a