[Mingw-msys] Re: MSYS make stackdumps

[Ranjit M. <rm...@ho...>]

This is to report that, at least on my system,
even the latest MSYS snapshot (2002-09-07)
dumps stack with the test case attached with this
thread.

:-(

Ranjit.

Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> After some more research, I've been able to pinpoint
> and reproduce the behaviour - I've attached a simple
> makefile (GZIP,5K) that demonstrates the problem.
> 
> Note that if you replace the $(shell echo ...) with
> a simple "echo ...", the problem disappears. Do we
> really spawn all these shells in parallel that might
> be causing the problem?
> 
> (FYI, the libgcj Makefile tries to create a
> list of objects to link using a $(foreach ...)
> on each of the 989 object files, not counting the Java
> AWT classes, and a $(shell echo ...) to append to the
> object list.)
> 
> BTW, now the MinGW "ar" command dies on me saying a
> cryptic "Invalid argument". I guess it cannot handle
> 989 objects on the command line as well... :-(
> 
> Ranjit.
> 
> Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>     This, I believe, is similar to what Paul had reported
>> earlier on this list - the MSYS make consistently dumps
>> stack each time I try to build libgcj. I have tried it
>> out with both MSYS 1.0.7-2 as well as MSYS 1.0.8 Snapshot
>> 2002-07-30-1.
>>
>> FYI, I'm using a PIII/733 box with 256MB RAM, running Windows
>> 2K/SP2 and I use the MSYS i686 builds with MinGW. MinGW is
>> gcc-2.95.3-6, binutils 2.13, mingw-runtime 2.1, w32api 1.5.
>>
>> I'm attaching a ZIP-ed archive (4K) of stackdumps and
>> error messages. error1 and error2 were with MSYS 1.0.7
>> while error3 and error4 were with MSYS 1.0.8-2002-07-30-1.
>> The stackdumps are in the correspondingly numbered files.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>>
>> Sincerely Yours,
>> Ranjit Mathew.
> 
>