[rt.cpan.org #80217] Build failure under Cygwin on Windows

[email protected] ("Daniel Dragan via RT")
Newsgroups perl.libwin32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Wed Oct 17 16:27:50 2012: Request 80217 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by BULKDD
       Queue: Win32-API
     Subject: Build failure under Cygwin on Windows
   Broken in: 0.72
    Severity: Critical
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: open
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80217 >


On Wed Oct 17 16:16:19 2012, BULKDD wrote:
> The culprit from cygwin.asm

The dirty hack fix is

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/* what is the macro for cygwin platform?*/
#define _alloca(x) (void *)sv_grow(sv_newmortal(), x)
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The correct fix is talking to whoever maintains cygwin.asm and fixing
the bug in cygwin.asm and waiting for a new cygwin release. I'm not sure
who's or what bug ticket system (linux GCC, binutils, mingw, cygwin,
etc) is responsible for this file. I am done with this ticket until I
hear more input.
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