Re: bison segv under Cygwin 64 at fatal-signal.c:318

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Brian, [dropping bug-gnulib]

> Le 23 sept. 2021 à 19:54, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> a 
> écrit :
> 
> Sorry Akim,
> 
> I thought it was understood as confirmed in my last message.

You might very well have, but I didn't see it.  I saw a confirmation of success 
of a tarball that I interpreted as referring to Bruno's testdir-thread, but 
maybe you meant bison.


> This month I am busy dealing with a number of maintained package upgrade 
> build and test failures, and at least one other appears to also be due to an 
> obscure gnulib upgrade, after years of upgrades with at most only the 
> occasional package tweak required, requiring only basic knowledge of 
> autotools and none of gnulib!
> With each build requiring one or more hours for the package manager to 
> configure && make && make VPATH install && make check locally, for each arch, 
> then repeat for confirmation on the CI, it takes up a lot of free time.

I sure understand this.

> Your interim release includes the gnulib threadlib.m4 patch, so I had to 
> disable applying that, which is great.

Great.  Then we have Bison 3.8.2.  I'll do that this weekend.

> Cygwin only needs the revert-autoconf-upgrade patch, until an experienced 
> autotools user adopts the autotools as maintainer and provides upgrades.
> 
> The builds and tests run completely, and only the Doxygen tests fail, 
> although the doc builds work: not a significant concern.

I could have a look at that.  Please send the logs.

Cheers!