Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin (Mystery!)

[Angelo Graziosi]

Hi Eli,

after my last replay
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-09/msg00829.html) I
have deleted the Emacs build directory, re-unpacked the same CVS source (I
make a tar.bz2 after every cvs download) and newly:

   ./configure
   make bootstrap

and this time the build has (mysteriously) passed the critical point until
the end !

But the build is unstable: after a few second Emacs segment fault.

Now I have updated from CVS and a new build is running. For the moment I
can't try your last suggestions.

Regarding the Cygwin downgrade, I remeber that also with previous version
of Cygwin and snapshot there were similar problem.

Only with the CVS source Aug 15 ans Sep 04 I was able to complete the
build and they works.


Cheers,

   Angelo.


> Please try this in the Emacs `src' directory:
> 
>    gdb ./bootstrap-emacs.exe
> 
> If it still says "no debugging symbols", you need to find out why is
> this happening, because it's impossible to debug a program without
> debugging symbols.
> 
> > > > [3]+  Stopped                 gdb --args ../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe 
> > > > -batch
> > > 
> > > Why ``Stopped''?  Did you type something to stop the job?
> > > 
> > 
> > Absolutely : NO !
> > 
> > I have typed only 'r'
> 
> Then maybe there's another problem with the Cygwin GDB.
> 
> Or maybe this is something else altogether.  Note that this line:
> 
> > Fatal error (6)/bin/sh: line 2:  1388 Aborted                 (core
> > dumped)
> 
> seems to indicate that the program that crashed is /bin/sh, the ported
> Bash, not Emacs.  Can you verify that it's the shell that crashes
> (e.g., by looking at the PID)?
> 
> Another thing to try is downgrade to the previous version of Cygwin.
>