Re: coredump when compiling gettext from source

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Tim Prince wrote:
> Tim Prince wrote:
>> Vincent R. wrote:
>>
>>> I have installed a fresh install of cygwin 1.7 and I wanted to compile
>>> gettext-0.17 from source so I entered:
>> Did you apply the patch which is provided with the source when you get
>> it via the cygwin-1.7 setup.exe?
>>>
>>> ./configure
>>> make
>>>
>> Did I miss an instruction indicating that configure and make could run
>> in the source directory, contrary to normal practice?
>> If I see a failure, I'll let you know.
>>
> 
> In my case, with no additional options, it stops on account of missing
> $(top_srcdir)/gnulib-m4/extensions.m4.
> The intl subdirectory build does throw an ld segfault at the point you
> indicated, with the additional message
> 6 [main] ld 2024 _cygtls::handle_exceptions:  Error while dumping
> state(probably corrupted stack)

  Guys, thanks for the report, I'm already on this; it's a serious bug in the
linker.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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