From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14569: 24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:51:23 -0400 Message-ID: <51D1895B.7000800@cornell.edu> References: <51BC720D.7080504@alice.it> <51BDB979.3040508@cornell.edu> <20130616150141.GB3622@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <51BDFB25.8080101@cornell.edu> <51BE01EC.3000701@cornell.edu> <51C60DEB.8030804@alice.it> <51C75149.1070609@alice.it> <51C793FA.9070806@cs.ucla.edu> <51C8275A.4080307@cornell.edu> <51C886D5.3030704@alice.it> <51C8B4AD.7050609@cs.ucla.edu> <51C8DB3A.7050206@alice.it> <51CC529B.9090809@cs.ucla.edu> <51CC9340.3080307@cornell.edu> <51CD7F92.40007@cornell.edu> <51CDA2A0.10400@cs.ucla.edu> <51CDABD3.4070207@cornell.edu> <51CE02D6.1010702@cornell.edu> <51D16635.5080609@cornell.edu> <51D1760A.5020206@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372686795 2252 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2013 13:53:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , 14569@debbugs.gnu.org To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 01 15:53:15 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UteXb-0004Iw-9C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:53:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43559 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UteXa-0001VB-V0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:53:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38513) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UteXW-0001Tr-Vd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UteXO-0004bs-M9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:53:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55760) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UteXO-0004bo-Iu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UteXO-0000w5-7s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:53:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ken Brown Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:53:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14569 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 14569-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14569.13726867433526 (code B ref 14569); Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:53:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14569) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Jul 2013 13:52:23 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50076 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UteWk-0000un-7h for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from limerock04.mail.cornell.edu ([128.84.12.60]:55628) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UteWi-0000uQ-44 for 14569@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 09:52:20 -0400 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Original-Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite2.mail.cornell.edu [128.253.83.142]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id r61DqD7F015190 for <14569@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 1 Jul 2013 09:52:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.8] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id r61DpNSg027552 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 1 Jul 2013 09:51:24 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: <51D1760A.5020206@alice.it> X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-PMX-Version: 5.5.9.395186, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2013.7.1.133618 X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Mon Jul 1 09:51:25 2013 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:75762 Archived-At: On 7/1/2013 8:28 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Il 01/07/2013 13.21, Ken Brown ha scritto: > >> Last night I began running a loop in which emacs (patched as I proposed) >> repeatedly starts and then exits after 15 seconds [*]. So far there >> hasn't been a single failure after more than 1300 iterations. I don't >> know what's different about bootstrapping, but it seems that tickling >> Glib doesn't cause problems on Cygwin in ordinary interactive use of >> Emacs. (Keep in mind that my previous test, quoted above, showed that >> the failure during bootstrapping always occurred within 1 second after >> Glib got tickled.) >> >> If no one objects, I'll go ahead and apply my patch later today. > > +1 > > Regarding this: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2013-06/msg00963.html > > > shouldn't it flagged, in some manner, to Cygwin ("Creators") list? For > example, > > "Bootstrapping Emacs with this patch fails on Cygwin so and so... but > not on GNU/Linux... Have you some idea?..." > > After all, trying to bootstrap Emacs trunk is not so much work... The > big work, perhaps, is in understanding the failure, I think.. Yes, I agree in principle, but I'm not yet sure it's a Cygwin bug, and I haven't been able to come up with a simple test case that exhibits the problem. My naive attempt didn't work: