On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:05:20AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >Hi Karl, Christopher, > >* Karl Berry wrote on Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:21:16AM CEST: >> >> [Excluding cygwin, I doubt they care about this part.] > >Oh yes they will care especially about this part. ;-) > >> $ texindex ./main.au ./main.cp ./main.pg ./main.sb >> Segmentation fault (core dumped) >> >> Regrettably, with both the texindex in the released 4.8, and the >> texindex from current CVS, I get no seg fault on GNU/Linux (x86). > >That's because the bug isn't in GNU texinfo-4.8, but in the Cygwin >package texinfo-4.8-2. > >* Christopher Faylor wrote on Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:28:13AM CEST: >> That's apparently a call to mktemp, although I can't tell what's causing >> the problem. >> >> Setting the CYGWIN environment variable to error_start:gdb might help >> with finding what the argument to mktemp is. > >Thanks for those hints. It turns out to be mktemp. > >Running under gdb (or with CYGWIN set accordingly) doesn't help much if >you don't have source and debugging symbols are not compiled in. So I >learned that Cygwin allows to install source packages, rebuilt >texinfo-4.8-2, and also built the pristine texinfo-4.8 from gnu.org. >The latter worked fine, the former crashes. The diff between both is >shown at the end of this message.
Thanks very much for looking into it. I released a new version of texinfo last night. cgf -- 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/
