--- Gio 26/3/09, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: > Da: Corinna Vinschen > Oggetto: Re: [1.7] makeinfo : too many open files > A: cygwin > Data: Giovedì 26 marzo 2009, 16:23 > > -----Segue allegato----- > > On Mar 26 12:36, Marco Atzeri > wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > building the documentation for octave with makeinfo > > I hit on cygwin-1.7 a similar issue than > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00564.html > > > > On cygwin-1.5 the same exact command on the same > files > > completes successfully. > > > > Full strace is uploaded on > > http://matzeri.altervista.org/strace/ > > > > 1.6M makeinfo15_strace > > 3.1M makeinfo17_strace > > 270K makeinfo_strace.tar.xz (both > compressed) > > > > > > $makeinfo -I.. octave-a4.texi > > > > octave-a4.texi:621: @include `package.texi': No such > file or directory. > > octave-a4.texi:632: @include `dynamic.texi': No such > file or directory. > > > > > > $ makeinfo -P.. octave-a4.texi > > octave-a4.texi:621: @include `package.texi': Too many > open files. > > octave-a4.texi:632: @include `dynamic.texi': Too many > open files > > The 1.7 strace shows a weird error message: > > seterrno_from_win_error: > /ext/build/netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-44/winsup/cygwin/cygheap.cc:140 > windows error 487 > > error 487 == "Attempt to access invalid address." > > It happens when trying to raise the size of the cygheap > (used for > internal datastructures like file descriptor data) which > apparently > occurs as a result of using so many files. The only > reason I can think > of why this might occur is a collision with a DLL loaded at > an address > not far from the end of Cygwin's cygheap, so that trying to > VirtualAlloc > more memory, to make the cygheap bigger, fails. The > default size of the > cygheap in 1.7.0-44 is ~900K and ends at 0x61300000. > > Maybe rebasing the DLLs makeinfo is linked against > (cygiconv-2.dll, > cygintl-8.dll) helps? > > If not, it might be helpful if you could send a link to a > tar archive > with all necessary input texi files to run makeinfo as > above. > > > Corinna
Hi Corinna, rebase had no effect. I packed the test case in http://matzeri.altervista.org/strace/ as makeinfo_test.tar.xz $ cd doc/interpreter $ makeinfo -I.. octave.texi Regards Marco -- 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/
