On 21 September 2010 22:12, SJ Wright wrote: > Gary wrote: >> >> And empty ones at that. >> >> I see this was mentioned previously but didn't see a resolution. >> >> For me it is definitely happening in emacs (which since I spend most of >> my time in it, is maybe not that surprising), and is possibly related to >> running make via 'M-x compile'. >> >> I use mintty, so it isn't related to rxvt and batch files or something. >> >> It's a bit hard to track down since it doesn't happen anything like >> every time. >> >> > > Yep. I was the one who complained my two primary shells were stackdumping > like flaky pastry. And you're right, there doesn't seem to be much in the > way of resolution coming from The Board. > > emacs, you say? Well, that sort of trims it down -- I did go through the > paces of installing emacs, xemacs and a few lighter-weight support utils -- > trying at long last to get myself acclimated with a "real" > developer's/scripter's editor or edit suite that wasn't Winz or Mac OS X -- > and it was not too long after that these stackdumps and a few problems with > compiles started happening. > > Here I thought it might have been my bsdtar install going South. Seemed to > make sense -- it's about as big as bash-completion, but then again, so is > emacs. > > Until we're corrected on this score, I suppose we'll have to ass-u-me that > emacs and the dot we're on to the right of "Sexy and 1.7" are not getting > along as swimmingly as they could be. > > "A splendid time is guaranteed for some" (sorry JWOL -- had to do it.)
I've got no idea what you're on about, but here's a quote for you: "The aim of a bug report is to enable the programmer to see the program failing in front of them." (Simon Tatham, 'How to Report Bugs Effectively') Andy -- 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
