From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9323 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2003 17:34:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9312 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2003 17:34:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.2.167) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2003 17:34:39 -0000 Received: from scan3.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.166] helo=localhost) by tx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ARxN8-0003zm-Pk for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:34:39 +0000 Received: from rx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.165]) by localhost (scan3.oucs.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.166]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 15128-05 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:34:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.herald.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.0.247]) by rx3.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1ARxN8-0003zi-CM; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:34:38 +0000 Received: from pc217.geog.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.38.217] helo=pc217) by smtp1.herald.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1ARxN8-0006T7-00; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:34:38 +0000 Message-ID: <0ad701c3ba8c$e47ad9b0$d92601a3@ouce.ox.ac.uk> From: "Arnaud Desitter" To: , References: <3FCF578A.9030304@msu.edu> Subject: Re: DDD 3.3.8 (i686-pc-cygwin) gets `Segmentation fault WAS Re: c ompiling DDD Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:34:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00051.txt.bz2 List-Id: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold L Hunt II" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin.xfree,gmane.comp.debugging.ddd.bugs Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 3:49 PM Subject: Re: DDD 3.3.8 (i686-pc-cygwin) gets `Segmentation fault WAS Re: c ompiling DDD > Richard Campbell wrote: > >>http://www.lesstif.org/INSTALL.html > > > > "On windows using Cygwin, U/WIN or Interix, LessTif must be built as > > static libraries. Because, one of the biggest issues with X on Win32 > > is the moronic DLL format. Specifically - it is not possible to export > > data from a Win32 DLL in a form that can be used to statically initialize > > another global variable. Data access from a DLL requires at least one > > pointer indirection, and hence executable code. This is why X11R6 doesn't > > have DLLs for Xt/Xmu/Xaw (and Motif) on Win32." > > > > If yes, these rules have been changing. Brian, isn't this what you > > were specifically working on recently? > > The statement in quotes above is now misleading and completely > incorrect. We are distributing *only* a shared version of LessTif on > Cygwin now. The various problems mentioned in the quote all have > work-arounds, some of which were already used by OS/2; we enabled those > work-arounds and adding one or two more of our own and the shared > LessTif library compiles and works fine now. > Fill free to contact the lesstif guys to fix it. Regards,