Brian Dessent wrote:
mwoehlke wrote:
I built setup (from the 2.529 tarball) and ran it in gdb, and got this
stack trace:
Thanks for the debugging. I must have missed the original report, as I
don't see the parent post of this thread. Under what circumstances is
this repeatable? It looks like the probable case is that
get_url_to_string() is not able to fetch the URL of the mirrors list,
and hence 'mirrors' is empty.
No, you probably didn't... the original report was buried in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00074.html which didn't seem to
get much reading, under "hmm, that's funny, now it's working". That was
on my W2k3 R2 computer. Originally, I gave up trying to debug it because
it seemed to be a fluke.
It isn't an empty mirror list problem, though; on my XP computer, it
consistently blows up shortly /after/selecting/ a mirror, so your guess
is about one step too early :-).
Anyway, I found something interesting... I was using
http://mirrors.kernel.org when it blew up. If I use
http://mirrors.mcs.anl.gov, then it's OK.
As cgf alludes, the state of string handling in setup is currently quite
a mess. There is kind of a mix std::string, a homemade String class,
and C strings. We're trying to get rid of the homemade kind.
From looking at site.cc it seems that get_site_list() is in dire need of
refactoring. I think it would make things a lot simpler to just have
load_site_list() take a string, and then process it using c_str(),
skipping the whole new_cstr_char_array() mess. It makes no sense to go
and allocate something just to pass to load_site_list(), only to then
free it. And eventually everything in String++.{cc,h} needs to die
anyway.
I will try to prepare a fix along these lines soon.
Ok, you know the code much better than I. :-) Meanwhile, it WFM with the
patch in the previous message, so I'll just run that (or use a different
mirror ;-)) until there is another snapshot or release.
p.s. What's the snapshot schedule for setup.exe... less often that
cygwin1.dll, I take it?
--
Matthew
Interix, Sphinterix. Cygwin apps don't crash. :-)
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