From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 51758@debbugs.gnu.org, scotto@sharpleaf.org
Subject: bug#51758: 27.2; Backtrace put in home dir, not current dir
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:45:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r106w6x9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkrajkwj.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:22:04 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 51758@debbugs.gnu.org, "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:22:04 +0200
>
> Scott Otterson <scotto@sharpleaf.org> writes:
>
> > When emacs crashes, I get an error popup (attached) saying that if I click NO, emacs
> > will abort and put emacs_backtrace.txt in "the current directory."
> >
> > Clicking NO, does produce emacs_backtrace.txt (attached), but it's actually put in my
> > EMACSHOME dir (the one emacs understands as "~"), not the current dir.
>
> I guess this is from w32fns.c:
>
> button = MessageBox (NULL,
> "A fatal error has occurred!\n\n"
> "Would you like to attach a debugger?\n\n"
> "Select:\n"
> "YES -- to debug Emacs, or\n"
> "NO -- to abort Emacs and produce a backtrace\n"
> " (emacs_backtrace.txt in current directory)."
> #if __GNUC__
> "\n\n(type \"gdb -p <emacs-PID>\" and\n"
> "\"continue\" inside GDB before clicking YES.)"
> #endif
> , "Emacs Abort Dialog",
>
> Eli, should that text just be amended? (If it always puts the backtrace
> in EMACSHOME, that is -- I haven't actually cheked the code here.)
The text is correct. I'm guessing the OP starts Emacs from EMACSHOME
directory.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-20 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-10 23:36 bug#51758: 27.2; Backtrace put in home dir, not current dir Scott Otterson
2022-09-20 12:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-20 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-09-20 13:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-20 14:13 ` Scott Otterson
2022-09-20 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-20 14:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-20 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-20 17:02 ` Scott Otterson
2022-09-20 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-20 18:14 ` Scott Otterson
[not found] ` <CAPY3P0Tj-GpVyZZ4KgSS8KKvOx+R5KJjbCP2C-UPGtMY98MLUg@mail.gmail.com>
2022-09-20 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-20 15:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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