I installed a self-built cygwin HEAD version - mostly it works fine, but it causes odd failures during builds (speculation: race when many processes being created and destroyed?)
The most common failure is a Windows error box: The instruction at "0x6108621a" references memory at "0x610030b0". The memory could not be written. (These addresses are constant.) $ addr2line -e /bin/cygwin1.dll 0x6108621a 0x610030b0 .../src/winsup/cygwin/shm.cc:331 .../src/winsup/cygwin/cygthread.cc:34 The errors are usually in sed, grep, or dirname. This is sometimes accompanied by this error on the console: 4 [proc] sh 1160 sig_send: error sending signal 20 to pid 1160, pipe handle 0xFFFFFFFF, Win32 error 6 Less common failures include shell scripts receiving terminating with a "Hangup" message, or locking up entirely. Debugging suggestions welcome. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/