Re: mingw check hung

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).

cheers

andrew