Re: Use meld in Cygwin

[Jie Zhang <jzhang918 gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On 12 October 2013 02:27, Jie Zhang <jzhang918 gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It has been for a while that meld can not be used in cygwin. I tried
> > to bisect the commit which caused it. Below is what I found.
>
> I'm pretty sure those commit SHAs are bad, since none except the last
> make any sense. I'm pretty sure that
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/meld/commit/?id=8463b8 didn't break
> cygwin. However, the crash looks familiar, so...
8463b8 is 8463b80b36a43075dfe1f1a973804c9ada6c7af8
b831bb7 is b831bb7eb50594a708ab4d9f0fc9ac45ca41cce3
0fccdab is 0fccdabd328279ffda5e4c036163e681671d7669

> > 1. commit 8463b8 caused a crash when starting meld in cygwin:
>
> This was fixed shortly thereafter, in
>     https://git.gnome.org/browse/meld/commit/?id=bbcf9904b9a2a7656f89908cfe607332fede49e6
Glad to know. Thank you.

> > 2. With commit 8463b8 reverted, commit b831bb7 is good, but commit
> > 0fccdab is bad. No crash dump. Meld just does not start.
>
> Does your username contain unicode? If so this apparently crashes things:
>     https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709058
No. My user name is plain English.

Regards,
Jie