bug#14569: 24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin

[Ken Brown]

On 6/11/2013 3:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:26:56 -0400
> > From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> > CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 14569@debbugs.gnu.org,
> >          angelo.graziosi@alice.it
> >
> > No.  This does not happen.  The Cygwin glib maintainer takes pains to
> > patch the source if necessary to make sure that Cygwin is not treated
> > like Windows.  See, for instance, the attached patch that is used in the
> > Cygwin build.
>
> So, in this patched glib, what does g_spawn_close_pid do, and under
> what circumstances could it call 'abort'?

It does nothing.  So Jan's backtrace is suspect.  I don't know if that 
could result from optimization, but I'll build a non-optimized glib and 
see if I can get a more reliable backtrace.

Ken