cw wrote: > I am trying to compile the latest release of uw-imapd under Cygwin and > Windows XP but the program crash after the first command. > > This is with the vanilla source from upstream. I know that it is not > supposed to work very well but yesterday I did the same thing on a > Windows Seven box and I did not have any problem. [snip] > GNU gdb 6.8.0.20080328-cvs (cygwin-special) > [...] > This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"... > (gdb) run > Starting program: /tmp/imap-2007e/imapd/imapd.exe > [New thread 2592.0x5cc] > [New thread 2592.0x7c0] > * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 I18NLEVEL=1 LITERAL+ IDLE UIDPLUS > NAMESPACE CHILDREN MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY UNSELECT ESEARCH WITHIN SCAN > SORT THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] > Pre-authenticated user dente bfmi246pc IMAP4rev1 2007e.404 at Wed, 2 Jun > 2010 15:33:48 +0200 > [New thread 2592.0x84c] > aaa hhh > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x611097f3 in strlen () from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll > (gdb) bt > #0 0x611097f3 in strlen () from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll > #1 0x7c85ada0 in OutputDebugStringA () from > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll > #2 0x40010006 in ?? () > #3 0x00000000 in ?? () [snip] > Any pointer would be very much appreciated.
This looks like the well known "strlen(NULL)" problem, it crashes on Solaris and I guess on Cygwin, does work on Linux. You'll have to patch UW-IMAP, which already has many uses of strlen() guarded. -- René Berber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
