cygwin build_alias issue
Chris Johns
chrisj at rtems.org
Wed Sep 1 06:27:59 UTC 2004
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> The symptoms match (aborting on the first "option=value" argument passed
> to a configure script).
>
> But ... still nobody seems to have been able to "sh -x" or strace this
> issue, ... so all this is wild guesses.
>
Agreed. To trace my bug down I had to do as you suggest and use 'set -x'
and 'set +x' in various places until I narrowed down the problem. Not
nice given the size of configure scripts.
>
> I still think it's more likely a "resources problem", because the bug
> doesn't seem to be deterministically.
>
Given the same command line then yes. If the command lines of the nested
configures vary then maybe.
I could generate the bug every time on Win98/WinME which was an
interesting pattern.
>
> So, I am inclined to think, that it's likely expr returning a bogus
> return value to be the trigger for these failures, but I doubt this is
> the origin.
>
Sure. For the bug I listed I managed to get a small test case so this
was not related to resource issues (that I could see).
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Chris Johns
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