From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50453: 27.2; Portable dumper broken on MSW Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 16:25:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83pmtjmc6e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871r60v9i0.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <871r60v9i0.fsf@yahoo.com> <83eea0pkdz.fsf@gnu.org> <87y287nsz5.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4407"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 50453@debbugs.gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 08 15:26:33 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNxay-0000yB-T7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:26:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58262 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNxax-0007rr-IM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNxaV-0007qY-1V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47431) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNxaU-0002Xu-GQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNxaU-0002u9-D6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:26:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:26:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50453 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 50453-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50453.163110754611142 (code B ref 50453); Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50453) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Sep 2021 13:25:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58977 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNxaE-0002te-2u for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:25:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40816) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mNxaB-0002tN-Jq for 50453@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41442) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNxa5-00027W-8u; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1557 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNxa3-00048I-42; Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:25:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y287nsz5.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:37:34 +0800) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:213827 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: 50453@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:37:34 +0800 > > > And second, you are using Emacs on Windows 9X, something that a few > > people do, so perhaps we have some bug related to that version of > > Windows. If you can run Emacs under GDB, please step through > > pdumper_load and tell where it bails out. > > That is proving to be a problem. MinGW flat out refuses to start, while > the GDB from ezwinports complains about "KERNEL32.DLL" missing the > symbol "AttachConsole". Yes, latest GDB releases no longer support old Windows versions, even XP is in danger (although it still works for me). And MinGW64 dropped XP support several years ago. > Do you know how I can obtain a copy of GDB that > will still work on this old system? Thanks in advance! Try the old mingw.org ports from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/gdb/ Thanks.