Re: mingw check hung

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> Something happened about 80 hours ago that caused my mingw buildfarm
>> member (gcc 3.4.2 on Win XP Pro SP2) to hang at the check stage. It
>> looks like it's hung in initdb.
>>
>> I wonder if it could be this commit:
>>
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> Make win32 builds always do SetEnvironmentVariable() when doing putenv().
>> Also, if linked against other versions than the default MSVCRT library
>> (for example the MSVC build which links against MSVCRT80), also update
>> the cache in the default MSVCRT at the same time.
>>
>> I note that the change is not apparently limited to MSVC builds. The
>> MSVC animal that runs on the same machine appears unaffected. I see
>> one other mingw buildfarm member that is having problems that started
>> a few days ago (yak) and another that looks like it is a few hours
>> overdue to report, so it might also be hung (vaquita).
>>
>>
>
> Further to this:
>
> I see that vaquita has now reported in, and is happy. Also, I can run
> happily on my Vista box (vaquita is also a Vista box). I therefore
> suspect that we have a problem specifically with XP (both dawn_bat and
> yak are XP boxes).

Have you managed to get gdb running on that box, and if so, can you try
to grab a stacktrace? If not, try a stacktrace from process explorer. It
doesn't actually work with mingw, but it gives you a hint based on DLL
exports...

//Magnus