Some update on Cygwin hangs

[Kelly O'Hair]

On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Jim Holmlund wrote:

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> On 10/19/2012 11:59 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>> On 2012-10-19 20:13, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>>> If we are not seeing this hang with MinGW/MSYS, perhaps we need to make a decision here to abandon CYGWIN?
>> On the contrary, we're seeing a lot more instability with msys. :-(
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>> Erik has seen lots of random crashes, I haven't seen many (just about one or two) but I have also seen hangs.
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>> So we've basically taken the informal decision of not pushing the msys track any further. What's in there will work properly some/most of the time. It might very well be good enough for "community support", but it won't do to use in our build farms.
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>> That's the reason for the renewed efforts to get cygwin working. We concluded that there seems to be just a single issue left with cygwin: if it hangs, it hangs at the "ctsym bug", so it should be doable to  figure out what goes wrong and work around it. Msys, on the other hand, seemed much more generally unstable.
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> I have never encountered this hang under cygwin.  How should I do a build to see if I can make it happen?

You have to use 'make images'.

-kto

> - jjh
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>> But we need to get either of them working, or we can't build with acceptable stability on Windows. So it's really a high priority issue for us.
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>> /Magnus