Re: Cygwin build report on Windows XP

[Eric Blake]

According to Simon Josefsson on 2/18/2010 12:52 AM:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>> Starting test_cond .../bin/sh: line 5:  3124 Aborted                 (core 
>>> dumped)
>>> FAIL: test-cond.exe
>>>
>>> Starting test_lock .../bin/sh: line 5:  1336 Aborted                 (core 
>>> dumped)
>>> FAIL: test-lock.exe
>>>
>>> Starting test_tls .../bin/sh: line 5:  3444 Aborted                 (core 
>>> dumped)
>>> FAIL: test-tls.exe
>>
>> The pthread implementation is apparently broken on Cygwin, see
>> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-08/msg00283.html>.

> Should m4/threadlib.m4 disable threads on cygwin 1.7.x too?  There is a
> 1.[0-5].* regexp in there now.

I've seen these failures for a long time now, but have not been bothered
enough by them to do anything about it (m4 is single-threaded, so I use
gnulib-tool --avoid tls-tests to avoid the test in the first place).

I hope to have more time to investigate these failures in the near future,
since I'm in the middle of changing jobs.  But meanwhile, it wouldn't hurt
to post these as simple test cases to explain on the cygwin list that
there has been a regression between 1.5.x and 1.7.1.  Also, there have
been some patches for the upcoming 1.7.2 that may impact pthreads.

-- 
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Eric Blake             address@hidden

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