public inbox for cygwin@cygwin.com
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Wolfgang Schnerring <wosc@wosc.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: WML (perl-based program) segfaults
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040212100113.GD1228@nautis.wosc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <129240678667.20040212102414@familiehaase.de>

* Gerrit P. Haase <freeweb@nyckelpiga.de> [2004-02-12 10:24]:
> >> ./configure --with-openworld --enable-debug
> >> runing make ends here:
> >> mp4h: ERROR: failed to initialise modules: unknown error
> > This can be circumvented by specifying --without-modules ... :-/

Forgot to say: The subcomponents (mp4h, eperl, etc.) are pretty much
independent from each other. And as it seems, only eperl broke down...

> > Do you think the possible results warrant the effort of rebuilding
> > perl?
> I have a debugging version of perl online[1] 

Now, that's good news. 8-)
I'll try this and see if I catch something.

> however it seems that the problem is with malloc() which was changed
> sometimes back in Cygwin (between 1.3.x and 1.5). There is also an
> option for WML to use dmalloc[2], maybe that helps to track this
> down?

The --with-dmalloc option also only affects mp4h, which doesn't cause
trouble at the moment. Additionally, specifying this breaks the build
for me; so I'd rather not wake any sleeping seamonsters here. %-)

Wolfgang

--
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/

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-12 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-10 16:03 Wolfgang Schnerring
2004-02-11 22:35 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2004-02-12  9:06   ` Wolfgang Schnerring
2004-02-12  9:24     ` Gerrit P. Haase
2004-02-12 10:00       ` Wolfgang Schnerring [this message]
2004-02-12 14:45       ` Wolfgang Schnerring
2004-02-14 16:30         ` Gerrit P. Haase
2004-02-15  7:06           ` Wolfgang Schnerring
2004-02-20 12:50 ` Rafael Kitover

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20040212100113.GD1228@nautis.wosc.de \
    --to=wosc@wosc.de \
    --cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).