Re: Building Emacs from a new MinGW environment

[Andy Moreton]

On Wed 18 Sep 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:46:44 +0100
>> 
>> I have an unchanged mingw toochain I have beeen using successfully for
>> months, and I also see a crash during bootstrap.
>> 
>> >From my build log for bootstrap of r114374, it crashed while compiling
>> lisp/cedet/semantic/db-ebrowse.el.
>
> What exactly does "crash" mean here?

Emacs abort dialog box appears during elisp compilation.

> Anyway, this is a different file from those mentioned by Dani.

Agreed.

> Are you building from the source tree, i.e. in-place?  That's what I
> do, and I just bootstrapped today (twice) with no problems.

Bzr branch in   c:\emacs\src\emacs\trunk
Build output in c:\emacs\src\emacs\trunk\build-msys

> Rename .gdbinit, so that xbacktrace is not invoked, and try obtaining
> the backtrace again.

Thanks for the hint - backtrace follows. I've omitted uninteresting
threads that do not have emacs in the call stack.

GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5
...Load .gdbinit
Attaching to process 6828
[New Thread 6828.0x1098]
[New Thread 6828.0x1410]
[New Thread 6828.0x7cc]
[New Thread 6828.0x15bc]
[New Thread 6828.0x1524]
[New Thread 6828.0x1654]
Reading symbols from c:\emacs\src\emacs\trunk\build-msys\src\emacs.exe...done.
(gdb) ./src/.gdbinit: No such file or directory.
(gdb) Continuing.

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
[Switching to Thread 6828.0x1098]
0x75e6321a in KERNELBASE!DeleteAce () from C:\Windows\syswow64\KernelBase.dll
(gdb) thread apply all bt full

... [uninteresting threads omitted] ...

Thread 1 (Thread 6828.0x1098):
#0  0x75e6321a in KERNELBASE!DeleteAce () from 
C:\Windows\syswow64\KernelBase.dll
No symbol table info available.
#1  0x0118ddad in emacs_abort () at c:/emacs/src/emacs/trunk/src/w32fns.c:7988
        button = <optimized out>
#2  0x010ae31d in terminate_due_to_signal (address@hidden, address@hidden) at 
c:/emacs/src/emacs/trunk/src/emacs.c:369
No locals.
#3  0x010c730d in handle_fatal_signal (sig=0xb) at 
c:/emacs/src/emacs/trunk/src/sysdep.c:1626
No locals.
#4  deliver_thread_signal (sig=0xb, handler=<optimized out>) at 
c:/emacs/src/emacs/trunk/src/sysdep.c:1600
        handler = 0x10c71c2 <handle_fatal_signal>
#5  deliver_fatal_thread_signal (sig=0xb) at 
c:/emacs/src/emacs/trunk/src/sysdep.c:1638
No locals.
#6  0x010011ea in address@hidden ()
No symbol table info available.
#7  0x75d2fffb in KERNEL32!GetQueuedCompletionStatus () from 
C:\Windows\syswow64\kernel32.dll
No symbol table info available.
#8  0x0088bffc in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#9  0x76f474ff in ntdll!AlpcMaxAllowedMessageLength () from 
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
No symbol table info available.
#10 0x0088bffc in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#11 0x76f09f45 in ntdll!RtlpNtSetValueKey () from C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
No symbol table info available.
#12 0x01160b7e in sprintf (__stream=0x0, __format=0x1419ae0 "Copying raw data 
for %.8s...", __format=0x1419ae0 "Copying raw data for %.8s...") at 
c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.2/../../../../include/stdio.h:269
        __retval = 0x6
        __local_argv = 0x88ffec ""
#13 0x7efde000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#14 0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.