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

From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 14569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it
Subject: Re: bug#14569: 24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:06:30 -0400

On 6/11/2013 3:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:26:56 -0400
>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
>> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 14569 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>>          angelo.graziosi <at> alice.it
>>
>> No.  This does not happen.  The Cygwin glib maintainer takes pains to
>> patch the source if necessary to make sure that Cygwin is not treated
>> like Windows.  See, for instance, the attached patch that is used in the
>> Cygwin build.
>
> So, in this patched glib, what does g_spawn_close_pid do, and under
> what circumstances could it call 'abort'?

It does nothing.  So Jan's backtrace is suspect.  I don't know if that 
could result from optimization, but I'll build a non-optimized glib and 
see if I can get a more reliable backtrace.

Ken
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