From: matthew patton <pattonme@yahoo.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>,
marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin GDB won't start or hangs at startup
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 15:33:35 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2078419709.2650216.1612798415176@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB8Xom9QupMhxVOjd_sZYapSJScB7sQ+u=PGrX-BYUiG5f8N_w@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 4:13 PM Jon Turney wrote:
>> It seems that gdb wants to run 'iconv -l' to list the available encodings.
>>
>> It looks like perhaps an upstream bug that gdb outputs nothing when
>> iconv can't be found (rather than using the default encoding?).
> the lack of a backup solution is clearly an upstream bug.
> I assume iconv is usually present and only on border case the bug
> is evident.
Indeed it is.iconv is provided by glibc-common on Linux distros so it's always available. Forcing a cygwin package dependency on iconv would be easiest fix. And open an ERRATA with upstream to gracefully handle lack of the binary.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-08 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-05 7:55 Daniel Röhrborn
2021-02-05 9:07 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-02-05 14:07 ` Lemke, Michael SF/HZA-ZIC2
2021-02-05 14:17 ` Lemke, Michael SF/HZA-ZIC2
2021-02-05 15:18 ` Takashi Yano
2021-02-05 16:39 ` Lemke, Michael SF/HZA-ZIC2
2021-02-05 19:06 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-02-07 14:25 ` Jon Turney
2021-02-08 13:46 ` marco atzeri
2021-02-08 15:33 ` matthew patton [this message]
2021-02-08 17:31 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-02-05 17:00 ` Marco Atzeri
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2021-02-04 12:13 Daniel Röhrborn
2021-02-04 13:45 ` Lemke, Michael SF/HZA-ZIC2
2021-02-04 14:54 ` Marco Atzeri
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