From: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv Message-ID: To: Endlisnis , djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 19:47:05 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: RHIDE crashes without traceback. [solved!] CC: Rhide AT listbot DOT com In-reply-to: <37BDC76C.7F5EAE32@unb.ca> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 20 Aug 99, at 17:23, Endlisnis wrote: > salvador wrote: > > > > OK, I've discovered that it doesn't actually "crash", it just get's hung for ~2 > > > minutes when trying to do something with DJDIR. Running it in gdb doesn't change > > > anything. Using exe2coff/go32-v2 doesn't change anything. If I wait 2 minutes, it loads > > > and runs normally. During the 2 minute wait, it does not respond to ^C/^Break. > > > (Remember, it still loads normally under DOS) > > > > Check your TEMP, TMPDIR and TMP definitions! (including the definition found in djgpp.env) > > most probably one of them is pointing to an invalid drive (or non-existant directory). RHIDE > > and CVS will wait for a long time before giving up (is libc). I added a lot of checks in the > > editor code to avoid such a problem. > > RHIDE uses DJDIR as part of the TMP guess so it could be the reason. > > SET > > OK, I figured out what was causing the problem. It was the HOME environmental variable. > For some reason, when RHIDE loads with the HOME environmental variable set to the root directory > of any drive, it waits 120 seconds before loading, but only if DJDIR is set. I had my DJGPP > installed in a subst'ed drive, and my HOME was set to "P:\", but when i changed it to the real > location "E:\DJGPP\", rhide loads fine. > Thanx for your assistance. > I'ts bug in rhide. RHIDE tries to to open something like c:\/rhide.env what places Wincrash9X to sleep for about 5 seconds (rhide looks for files many times, so the delay is bigger) Tried to hack sources in librhuti but didn't suceed quickly. So I left it as it is Andris PS. Second identical bug this week. First were in collect2 (gcc295X.zip)