Re: new module 'nocrash'

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:50 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Some autoconf tests require running a program and seeing whether it  
> crashes
> or not. Unfortunately, one some platforms, this causes a dialog box  
> to appear.
> If a configure script has 10 test programs of this kind, the  
> installer can
> mutate into a click-o-maniac; in other words, it's annoying.
>
> One such platform is MacOS X (in some configurations), another one  
> is BeOS.
>
> Here's a macro that lets the autoconf test fail without a crash. So it
> gets rid of the dialog box, without affecting the test's result.

Windows has the same symptoms when you build with VC++.  Depending on  
some settings in the registry, you'll get this:
http://www.tsunanet.net/~tsuna/winsux.png (it's basically asking  
whether or not you want to debug the program)
or that:
http://www.tsunanet.net/~tsuna/winsux2.png (it's basically asking to  
click OK...)

Notice that the message box appears even though there is no session  
open on this machine!  Not only this is annoying, but it's a real  
problem with automated builds (since the build is stuck until someone  
clicks OK or until some timeout makes it fail).

I've found this:
http://www.nirsoft.net/vc/ 
prevent_application_crash_exception_handling.html
but haven't had time to test it so far.

I'll have to anyways because it's a *real* problem in my buildfarm.

Cheers,

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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