Re: MPS: Win64 testers?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:44:43 +0000
> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, sebastian@sebasmonia.com, 
> emacs-devel@gnu.org, yantar92@posteo.net
> 
> "Kien Nguyen" <kien.n.quang@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On the other hand, doesn't this require me to run `gdb` under Emacs's
> > `src`? So, for others who want to try the pre-built version and get the
> > debug backtrace, they will need to download the `gdbinit` file or clone
> > the Emacs source code and run `gdb` from the `src` folder. That can be a
> > bit of work, though.
> 
> Can we make it easier for those brave testers by including the gdbinit
> file (and, ideally, an indication of where to download the precise
> sources used to build Emacs) in the zip file, and print them out when
> GDB is started?

We could include .gdbinit in the binary distribution, but it isn't
worth much without the sources anyway.

> For example, your latest crash report has line numbers in it that do not
> precisely match those of the scratch/igc branch, and it wasn't
> immediately obvious to me how to look them up...

The sources of development branches are only available from Git
anyway.