Setup breakage

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Thu Aug 26 08:35:00 GMT 2004


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, David A. Cobb wrote:
>
>> Using SETUP 2.427 (and re-downloaded it just today to make sure it wasn't
>> compromised).
>>
>> While downloading the Xorg stuff, I get a message box
>> Microsoft Visual C Runtime: "The application has requested termination in 
>> an
>> unusual manner . . "
>
> That's not good...  Definitely sounds like a bug.
>
>> And that's all for that.
>>
>> Repeats with perfect consistency, but I'm not sure it's always during
>> the same file download.
>>
>> Q: HOW TO DEBUG THIS -- I know Setup is not, itself, a Cygwin app; so I
>> wouldn't expect gdb to be much help.
>
> gdb works just fine on non-Cygwin apps, as long as you have the debug
> symbols in them.  Build setup from source, and you should be able to debug
> it.

I've put a debug build at:
http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/

should that be easier for you.

IIRC, that error message means abort() was called.

Max.



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