[Mingw-users] MSYS problem

[Daniel H. <dhe...@ui...>]

Hi all,

I'm trying to compile Coin3D (www.coin3d.org) using MinGW 2.0.0-3 and
MSYS 1.0.9.

For the most part, everything is fine.

However, "make" crashes near the end with a
rm -fr .libs/libCoin.lax/libfields.a
mkdir .libs/libCoin.lax/libfields.a
(cd .libs/libCoin.lax/libfields.a && ar x
/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src/fields/.libs/libfields.a)
      0 [main] sh 3224 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
sh.exe.stackdump
../libtool: line 1:  3224 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ar x $xabs
make[3]: *** [libCoin.la] Error 139
make[3]: Leaving directory `/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2'
make: *** [all] Error 2


Here's the stack trace (if anyone can decipher it):
MSYS-1.0.9 Build:2003-07-03 07:26
Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=71098795
eax=0A0E5288 ebx=710A5FB4 ecx=00002CE0 edx=016FC48D esi=0A0E25A8
edi=710A5CA4
ebp=0022A46C esp=0022A434 program=C:\msys\bin\sh.exe
cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0038 gs=0000 ss=0023
Stack trace:
Frame     Function  Args
0022A46C  71098795  (710A5020, 00002CDC, 77E77F57, FFFFFFFF)
0022A49C  71031350  (00002CDC, 00000000, 00000000, 00002BD8)
0022A4BC  710310D8  (00002CDC, 0A0CB6D0, 00002BD9, 00000000)
0022D44C  7104375B  (0A0CB6D0, 0A0C0B48, 00000001, 71061DFE)
0022E80C  71061EED  (00000000, 0A018158, 0A0153B0, 0A0BB638)
0022E84C  710639FA  (00000000, 00000003, 0A018158, 0A0153B0)
0022E87C  710114DB  (0A018158, 0A0153B0, 0A0BB638, 710A5020)
0022E89C  7108D872  (0A018158, 0A0153B0, 0A0BB638, 0022E908)
0022E96C  004127A4  (0A018158, 0A0153B0, 0A0BB638, 0042B3C4)
0022E9C8  00412706  (0A0BBB08, 00000000, 0A0B94B0, FFFFFFFF)
0022EA48  00411CA7  (0A0BE190, FFFFFFFF, FFFFFFFF, 00000000)
0022EAA8  0040E9C6  (0A0BE178, 00000000, FFFFFFFF, FFFFFFFF)
0022EAF8  0040FD6A  (0A0BAB58, 00000000, FFFFFFFF, FFFFFFFF)
0022EB58  0040EBE2  (0A0BAB58, 00000000, FFFFFFFF, FFFFFFFF)
0022EBA8  0040F693  (0A0BAB80, 00000000, FFFFFFFF, FFFFFFFF)
0022EC14  0040E68F  (0A0BAB80, 00000000, FFFFFFFF, FFFFFFFF)
End of stack trace (more stack frames may be present)



The annoying part is that MSYS does not crash and I can execute this
"ar x" command manually without any errors, but it still kills the make
process.  "make install" then tries to do this again.


After fighting with it for a while, I tried downgrading to MSYS 1.0.8
This version does not crash there.  Instead, it dies later...

rm -fr .libs/libCoin.lax/libfields.a
mkdir .libs/libCoin.lax/libfields.a
(cd .libs/libCoin.lax/libfields.a && ar x
/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src/fields/.libs/libfields.a)
rm -fr .libs/libCoin.lax/libglue.a
mkdir .libs/libCoin.lax/libglue.a
(cd .libs/libCoin.lax/libglue.a && ar x
/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src/glue/.libs/libglue.a)
rm -fr .libs/libCoin.lax/libmisc.a
mkdir .libs/libCoin.lax/libmisc.a
(cd .libs/libCoin.lax/libmisc.a && ar x
/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src/misc/.libs/libmisc.a)
rm -fr .libs/libCoin.lax/liblists.a
mkdir .libs/libCoin.lax/liblists.a
(cd .libs/libCoin.lax/liblists.a && ar x
/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src/lists/.libs/liblists.a)
rm -fr .libs/libCoin.lax/libnodekits.a
mkdir .libs/libCoin.lax/libnodekits.a
(cd .libs/libCoin.lax/libnodekits.a && ar x
/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src/nodekits/.libs
/libnodekits.a)
rm -fr .libs/libCoin.lax/libnodes.a
mkdir .libs/libCoin.lax/libnodes.a
(cd .libs/libCoin.lax/libnodes.a && ar x
/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src/nodes/.libs/libnodes.a)
../libtool: /mingw/bin/ar: Invalid argument
make[3]: *** [libCoin.la] Error 126
make[3]: Leaving directory `/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/CoinSRC/Coin-2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Again, MSYS does not crash and I can manually do
$ cd src/.libs/libCoin.lax/libnodes.a/
$ ar x /c/CoinSRC/Coin-2/src/nodes/.libs/libnodes.a
without error.


To me, this feels like an MSYS bug.  I would be happy to find a
workaround.

Thanks,
Daniel Herring
dhe...@ui...