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

[Brian Inglis]

On 2021-09-20 21:25, Akim Demaille wrote:
> Le 18 sept. 2021 à 19:04, Brian Inglis a écrit :
> > Thanks very much for your help Bruno, in diagnosing the issue
> > correctly, and providing the patch: I will ensure your patch comment
> > gets prefixed into the respun bison gnulib patch.
> > And thanks Akim for getting Bruno involved to address the right area.
> > Cygwin bison users will be happy having the latest build available.

> I did not see the confirmation that the last tarball I made did work on your 
> system.
> https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/private/bison/bison-3.8.1.29-5c106.tar.gz
> https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/private/bison/bison-3.8.1.29-5c106.tar.lz
> https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/private/bison/bison-3.8.1.29-5c106.tar.xz
> I might have missed it though.

Sorry Akim,

I thought it was understood as confirmed in my last message.

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.

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

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.

Thanks very much again to you both, the great help is appreciated.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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