GNU bug report logs - #14569
24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin

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Reported by: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>

Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 00:17:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #170 received at 14569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se, 14569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#14569: 24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:22:13 -0700

On 06/23/2013 09:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If the crashes in gmalloc don't happen unless glib is linked in, then
> it's possible that its memory management conflicts in some way with
> gmalloc (and possibly ralloc, if Cygwin uses that as well).

Thanks, I think that's the problem: the new code invokes glib
primitives before the memory allocator is set up on Cygwin, which is a
no-no.  I moved the glib SIGCHLD tickling to later, in trunk bzr 113142;
does that help?
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