Problems with autoconf-2.52 testsuite using current CVS Cygwin
Christopher Faylor
cgf@redhat.com
Sat Aug 4 09:40:00 GMT 2001
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:02:06AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:04:00PM +0930, Trevor Forbes wrote:
>>For info.
>>
>>I rebuilt ash with the following line changed in shell.h
>># ifdef __CYGWIN__
>># undef VFORK
>># define VFORK 1 -> 0
>>
>>All autoconfig test pass, I rebuilt and checked autoconf (CVS ver) 3 times
>>to see if the was any problems and it is rock solid....
>>
>>I don't see the premissions problems Chuck is getting but I use Admin
>>rights.
>
>Ok. We seem to be slowly zeroing in on the problem. Is someone willing
>to debug what's going on? Why are the files deleted with
>VFORK/no-vfork?
>
>Has anyone tried turning off VFORK in cygwin and seeing if that solves
>the problem, too?
>
>We need to understand what mechanism is not being triggered to delete these
>files.
Anyone working on this? I'd like to make a new release someday and this
should obviously be fixed.
It would be wonderful if I didn't have to actually load the newest version
of autoconf on my system and debug this after all of the previous debugging
attempts.
cgf
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