Re: emacs bootstrap hangs on Windows XP / mingw

[Dieter Deyke]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Dieter Deyke <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:21:37 -0700
>>
>> > Can you attach GDB to the running Emacs, and see where it is hung?
>>
>> I tried, but gdb does not seem to be able to interrupt emacs. I see the
>> message:
>>
>> Attaching to program
>> `/c/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/bin/emacs.exe', process 18884
>
> This looks like you have a Cygwin GDB, while your Emacs is a native
> MinGW build.  Maybe such a combination cannot work here?

You were right, but using the mingw gdb results in the same problem, the
debugger cannot break into emacs:

C:\Users\deyke\emacs-build\subdir\work>gdb bin\emacs.exe 22936
GNU gdb 5.1.1 (mingw experimental)
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GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "mingw32"...
C:\Users\deyke\emacs-build\subdir\work/22936: No such file or directory.
Attaching to program `C:\Users\deyke\emacs-build\subdir\work/bin\emacs.exe', 
process 22936

Then gdb hangs too, and cannot be interrupted by C-c.

For what is worth, process explorer shows the folloing threads in emacs
at that point:

!CreateThread+0x2e
!toascii+0x15d0
ntdll.dll!DbgUiRemoteBreakin
ntdll.dll!ConvertUiListtoApiList+0x276
ntdll.dll!ConvertUiListtoApiList+0x276

If I try to close the cmd window running the emacs build, I get:

"Windows cannot end thos program. It may need more time to complete an
operation."

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Dieter Deyke

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