On 21/09/2009 09:48, Christopher Faylor wrote:
gdb said that the failure was coming from libxcb-1.dll so I rebuilt libxcb-1.dll with debugging information and with a version of libcygwin.a containing debugging symbols.
Wait, did I just hear an argument for split debug packages? :-)
The fix for the problem wasn't immediately obvious and it is very hacky. I hope it can be removed in a couple of years when everything that was built using a buggy version of libcygwin.a is gone. The problem came from one of the X libraries that, if it had been relinked recently, would not have manifested a problem. I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't record which library had the problem, though. Tracking it down in gdb proved to be sort of time-consuming and now the window with the information is gone. I can say that any DLL built with cygwin-1.7.0-51 - cygwin-1.7.0-56 is probably suspect. That's 2009-07-13 - 2009-08-13 .
Among the X.Org libraries, only libxcb and libX11 were built with those versions. I am in the process of rebuilding both now.
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