Re: 22.1 Cygwin emacs timeframe query

[Angelo Graziosi]

Joe Buehler wrote:

> I'm the maintainer for gnu emacs under Cygwin.


Have you tried to build Emacs from CVS?

What about this 

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....

Finding pointers to doc strings...
Finding pointers to doc strings...done
Dumping under the name emacs
Static heap usage: 10779888 of 12582912 bytes
66931 pure bytes used
mv -f emacs.exe bootstrap-emacs.exe
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs/.build/src'
(cd lisp; make -w bootstrap EMACS=../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe)
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/emacs/.build/lisp'
wd=/tmp/emacs/lisp; subdirs=`(cd $wd; find . -type d -print)`; for file in
$subdirs; do case $file in */Old | */RCS | */CVS | */CVS/* | */.* | */.*/*
| */=* ) ;; *) wins="$wins $wd/$file" ;; esac; done; \
        for file in $wins; do \
           /tmp/emacs/lisp/../update-subdirs $file; \
        done;
wd=/tmp/emacs/lisp; subdirs=`(cd $wd; find . -type d -print)`; for file in
$subdirs; do case $file in */Old | */RCS | */CVS | */CVS/* | */.* | */.*/*
| */=* ) ;; *) wins="$wins $wd/$file" ;; esac; done; \
        echo Directories: $wins; \
        ../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l
autoload --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file
"/tmp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' -f batch-update-autoloads $wins
Directories: /tmp/emacs/lisp/. /tmp/emacs/lisp/./calc
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./calendar /tmp/emacs/lisp/./emacs-lisp
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./emulation /tmp/emacs/lisp/./erc /tmp/emacs/lisp/./eshell
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./gnus /tmp/emacs/lisp/./international
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./language /tmp/emacs/lisp/./mail /tmp/emacs/lisp/./mh-e
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./net /tmp/emacs/lisp/./obsolete /tmp/emacs/lisp/./play
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./progmodes /tmp/emacs/lisp/./term
/tmp/emacs/lisp/./textmodes /tmp/emacs/lisp/./url
Fatal error (6)/bin/sh: line 2:  3596 Aborted                 (core
dumped) ../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l
autoload --eval '(setq generated-autoload-file
"/tmp/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el")' -f batch-update-autoloads $wins
make[2]: *** [autoloads] Error 134
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs/.build/lisp'
make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs/.build'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 
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and similar failures that periodically come out in building under Cygwin?


Are your build  'stable' or 'segment fault's ? 

The builds with gcc-4.0.3 seem very stable, those with gcc-3.4.4-1 (the
only GCC in Cygwin) seem very 'unstable'. What is your results?


   Angelo.