Some update on Cygwin hangs

[Jim Holmlund]

On 10/22/2012 8:51 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Jim Holmlund wrote:
>
>>
>> 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. :-(
>>>
>>> Erik has seen lots of random crashes, I haven't seen many (just about one or two) but I have also seen hangs.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> 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'.
Ok, I've done that several times but haven't hit the problem yet.
- jjh

> -kto
>
>> - jjh
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> /Magnus