More specifics on the gcc-2.95.3 cygwin crash

[Sivan Toledo]

A few more details on the crash with the qt-x11+gcc-2.95.3+cygwin build 
that I reported a few days ago.

I traced (with the help of my wife) the crash to the call to std:getline 
in support/filetools.C, and I was able to duplicate the crash with a 
very short program. This happens with gcc-2.95.3 but not with gcc-3.3.1 
on cygwin. So I think that there is some bug in this function 
(std::getline) in this version of gcc. The function is coming from a 
template in bastring.cc.

I am using 2.95 since I was not able to compile Qt with 3.3.

Another workaround that I tried is to use --with-included-string in the 
configure setup, but that failed because boost insisted on trying to 
#include <limit>.

If anybody has an idea, either on how to fix or get around the getline 
bug, or how to build lyx with --witn-included-string (which I think will 
use another getline), please let me know.

This saga might have some impact on the recent thread on qt3 noncommercial.

Sivan