B20 bug reporting

B20 bug reporting

[Geoffrey Noer]

I thought it would be good to remind people to *always* include the
release information with your bug reports.  So be sure to say whether
you are running b19 or b20 and any other useful information about your
environment.  If you are reporting a bug in the Cygwin API, it is
really necessary to provide a small test case -- we won't have time to 
track down what's going on otherwise...

Finally, the new cygcheck.exe utility included in b20 can be used to
determine some useful information about your tools setup.  If you are
reporting what is likely a configuration-related problem,it would be a
good idea for you to include the output of cygcheck -s in your email
to the list.

Thanks!

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Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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Re: B20 bug reporting

[Theodore Jump]

>Finally, the new cygcheck.exe utility included in b20 can be used to
>determine some useful information about your tools setup.  If you are

Question: cygckeck -s reports that it can't find either cpp or gdb on my system
(B20 of course), however I can compile cpp code with either "c++" or "g++" so I
must assume that it *can*.

Just wanted to report this oddity.
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Re: B20 tar source can't configure itself?

[Theodore Jump]

I wanted to add inline bzip2 support to tar so that you could do this:

	tar xvfI foo.tar.bz2

Instead of the two-command two-step, however when I ran "configure" in the
src/tar directory (from full-src.tar.bz2) it chokes before completing the
configure with the following message:

	checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type;
	you must specify one

Just for kicks, I unpacked and did the same thing with the tar-1.12.tar.gz
archive from a GNU site and configure ran to completion and tar built w/o
complaint (and is in fact the one I'm using now).

However, it would have been nicer if I could have just rebuilt the version that
shipped with the Cygwin sources since it's apparent to me that "you" have made
some changes/additions.

Is the only way I'm going to be able to build this to do a "root" configure -
aka: starting at the root of the Cygwin src tree?

-Ted
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Re: B20 bug reporting

[DJ Delorie]

Theodore Jump wrote:
> Question: cygckeck -s reports that it can't find either cpp or gdb on my system
> (B20 of course), however I can compile cpp code with either "c++" or "g++" so I
> must assume that it *can*.
> 
> Just wanted to report this oddity.

Odd if you don't know why I added a check for that.  "cpp" is a common
name that competing products may use for *their* pre-processor.
I check for it to make sure that it is *not* there, so that we
can be sure that gcc is using its own cpp, which is normally *not*
on the PATH.

DJGPP users encounter this problem occasionally with Borland C
installed.

"cpp" is the C Pre-Processor, which has little specifically to do with
the C++ language; it is used for C and C++ programs, some ASM files, and
other purposes as well.
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Re: B20 bug reporting

[Stipe Tolj]

> Question: cygckeck -s reports that it can't find either cpp or gdb on my system
> (B20 of course), however I can compile cpp code with either "c++" or "g++" so I
> must assume that it *can*.

same thing for me running cygwin b20 on a Win98 box.

Regards,
Stipe

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Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
Cygwin32 Porting Project
Department of Economical Computer Science
University of Cologne, Germany
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Re: B20 bug reporting

[Mumit Khan]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Stipe Tolj wrote:

> > Question: cygckeck -s reports that it can't find either cpp or gdb on my system
> > (B20 of course), however I can compile cpp code with either "c++" or "g++" so I
> > must assume that it *can*.
> 
> same thing for me running cygwin b20 on a Win98 box.
> 

All the messages must be crossing each other, or that nobody's reading
them ;-)

GDB will accidentally left out of full.exe, which has since been fixed.

cygcheck should *not* find cpp; if it does, it may be a problem (eg.,
it might pick up Borland's cpp, which may cause problems).

Regards,
Mumit



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Major Majordomo Problem (was: Re: B20 bug reporting)

[John Mullee]

I get messages dated several days before present -
is the list overloaded? what's going on?
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