Latest 64 bit test stuff on sourceware

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Feb 19 14:03:00 GMT 2013


On 2/19/2013 4:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 18 22:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 18 13:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Feb 16 22:47, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> On 2/16/2013 5:17 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
>>>>> 3. The config.status scripts generated by the configure scrips
>>>>> I have tested are not working (all Makefiles end up empty), but
>>>>> I suspect that's some issue between autoconf and dash. So far it
>>>>> has worked to run ./config.status from plain old non-64-cygwin
>>>>> between configure and make.
>>>>
>>>> I made a first attempt to build emacs.  I had the same problem as
>>>> Peter with all Makefiles being empty.  In addition, the configure
>>>> test for mktime (attached) fails; CPU usage spins up to 25% (one
>>>> core), and the program has to be killed from the Task Manager.
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>>
>>> Oh well.  I don't know how to "fix" this, other than by ripping out
>>> the entire localtime/mktime implementation and replacing it with
>>> something new.
>>
>> I spent the entire day to pull our 1999 localtime.cc file, which only
>> saw minor changes since then, up to the latest code from NetBSD.  This
>> implementation appears to work quick and it runs the entire mktime
>> testcase successfully.
>>
>> I'm going to upload a new Cygwin tomorrow, I'm simply too tired today.
>
> I just uploaded
> ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/64bit/install/base-cygwin-toolchain-install-first-20130219.x86_64.tar.xz
> Please give it a try.

Both problems I reported (empty Makefiles, mktime test failure) are 
fixed.  Thanks!

Ken



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