Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] cat.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close

From: Harsha <inet.harsha@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:39:27 -0700
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Harsha <inet.harsha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It is about 7-8 months since I had build Wireshark on my Windows XP
> box running Visual C++  2005 EE. Today I updated Wireshark sources and
> Cygwin and it is now failing with "cat.exe has encountered a problem
> and needs to close.." (see attached screenshots). When I tell it not
> to send the report 7 times, the build fails with the following log-
>
> C:\wireshark>nmake -f Makefile.nmake all
>
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
>        "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"
> /  -f Makefile.nmake WIN_SETUP_OPT=--libverify process_libs
>
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>
>
> ERROR: The contents of C:\wireshark-win32-libs\current_tag.txt is (unknown).
> ERROR: It should be 2009-04-16.
> ERROR: Do you need to run "nmake -f makefile.nmake setup"?
>
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'c:\cygwin\bin\bash.EXE' : return code '0x1'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 8\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
>
> C:\wireshark>
I decided to give it another shot on a fresh vmware XP installation
with VC++ 2008EE and the exact same steps worked.

If someone as a suggestion for the problem, I will be still happy to
try. That way we know what the root cause is.

Thanks,
Harsha