Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin

[Angelo Graziosi]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:18:00 +0200 (MET DST)
> > From: Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden>
> > cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > The problem is localized between lines 
> > 
> > 
> >    1072      # People get bothered when...
> >    .....     .....
> >    
> >    1110      end
> 
> This is somewhat tangential to the real problem at hand, but as long
> as we are talking about this: what happens if you remove all that
> block from .gdbinit, type "gdb ./emacs.exe" in the src directory, and
> then manually type the commands in the offending block, one after the
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                ????

> other?  I'm particularly interested to know whether you see any error
> messages from GDB, and if so, which line causes these messages.


This is not clear:

- I remove the blocks A,B,C from .gdbinit
- then start gdb ./emacs...
- then add a line at time of the removed blocks: Add to .gdbinit or at GDB
  prompt ?


As I wrote, removing the block C causes GDB sayd .gdbinit has errors.


Cheers

   Angelo.




> 
> > (gdb) xpr
> > Lisp_Symbol
> > $2 = (struct Lisp_Symbol *) 0x7d8bf888
> > Cannot access memory at address 0x7d8bf88c
> > (gdb) 
> 
> Kim, any clever ideas, before we ask Angelo to look in last_marked[]
> array etc.?
> 
> > I want to flag that on Cygwin mailing list there are peoples that have
> > similar problems with GDB
> > (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-09/msg00534.html).
> 
> Yes, I've seen that thread, but I don't see any useful (i.e., that
> explain what's going on and why) responses to the problem it reported.
>