emacs snapshot tarball test build

emacs snapshot tarball test build

[djh]

I was asked to try out building a snapshot tarball on cygwin and have just finished.

Platform: 
   gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070312 (prerelease) 
   CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57

Results:
    configured and built fine.

Install did not complete successfully, but did install a workable newly built emacs.

The only problem is shown below (and maybe it is not a real problem).

--------
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/leim'
cd lib-src; make maybe-blessmail  \
          MAKE='make' archlibdir='/libexec/emacs/22.0.95/i686-pc-cygwin'
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
../src/emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l /usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src/../lisp/mail/blessmail.el
Fatal error (6)make[1]: *** [blessmail] Aborted (core dumped)
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
make: *** [blessmail] Error 2
------

However the newly installed emacs seems to work and I am writing this letter with it and mh-e.

What comes after "blessmail" in the Make sequence I am not familiar with, but suspect that it is near the end of the install procedure if I recall correctly.

Regards,
 Darel Henman

Re: emacs snapshot tarball test build

[Angelo Graziosi]

djh wrote:

> The only problem is shown below (and maybe it is not a real problem).
>
> --------
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/leim'
> cd lib-src; make maybe-blessmail  \
>          MAKE='make' archlibdir='/libexec/emacs/22.0.95/i686-pc-cygwin'
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
> ../src/emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l 
> /usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src/../lisp/mail/blessmail.el
> Fatal error (6)make[1]: *** [blessmail] Aborted (core dumped)
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
> make: *** [blessmail] Error 2
> ------


This often happens boostraping Emacs on Cygwin.

Workaround: try to build in another nested directory.

Generally, a build with the above problem gives problems!


Cheers,

   Angelo.

Re: emacs snapshot tarball test build

[djh]

Thanks Angelo.  But, one shouldn't have to build in a specific directory, or guess about a directory structure, and this should be an easy thing to fix. 

If it is a semi-hard coded (if should a thing code be) reference or assumption in a Makefile then it should be corrected in my opinion.

It would be good to know why "make" aborted on blessmail.el.  It was reported as
"Fatal error (6)make[1]: *** [blessmail] Aborted (core dumped)" below.

> djh wrote:
> > The only problem is shown below (and maybe it is not a real problem).
> > --------
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/leim'
> > cd lib-src; make maybe-blessmail  \
> >          MAKE='make' archlibdir='/libexec/emacs/22.0.95/i686-pc-cygwin'
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
> > ../src/emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l 
> > /usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src/../lisp/mail/blessmail.el
> > Fatal error (6)make[1]: *** [blessmail] Aborted (core dumped)
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
> > make: *** [blessmail] Error 2
> > ------
> 
> 
> This often happens boostraping Emacs on Cygwin.
> Workaround: try to build in another nested directory.
> Generally, a build with the above problem gives problems!
> 
> Cheers,
>    Angelo.

Regards,
   Darel Henman

Re: emacs snapshot tarball test build

[Richard Stallman]

    This often happens boostraping Emacs on Cygwin.

    Workaround: try to build in another nested directory.

Is this documented in the installation instructions?
In etc/PROBLEMS?

If not, would someone like to add that info?

Re: emacs snapshot tarball test build

[Angelo Graziosi]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, djh wrote:

> 
> Thanks Angelo.  But, one shouldn't have to build in a specific directory, or guess about a directory structure, and this should be an easy thing to fix. 
> 
> If it is a semi-hard coded (if should a thing code be) reference or assumption in a Makefile then it should be corrected in my opinion.
> 
> It would be good to know why "make" aborted on blessmail.el.  It was reported as


> "Fatal error (6)make[1]: *** [blessmail] Aborted (core dumped)" below.


Boostrapping Emacs on Cygwin, one often has "Fatal error
(6)make[1]:..." not only at the end, when installing, with "blessmail",
but also when it starts to compile "el" files or after it has rebuilt the
final version of "emacs.exe".

Theste errors happen at random, without an evident logic.

Usually, changing the build directory (increasing the nested level) solve
the thing (same Emacs CVS source).

So correcting the Makefile left some doubts (but I can err).

Obviously, the bootstrap of the same CVS code on GNU/Linux Kubuntu does
not give any problem.


Cheers,

   Angelo.
 







> 
> > djh wrote:
> > > The only problem is shown below (and maybe it is not a real problem).
> > > --------
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/leim'
> > > cd lib-src; make maybe-blessmail  \
> > >          MAKE='make' archlibdir='/libexec/emacs/22.0.95/i686-pc-cygwin'
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
> > > ../src/emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l 
> > > /usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src/../lisp/mail/blessmail.el
> > > Fatal error (6)make[1]: *** [blessmail] Aborted (core dumped)
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
> > > make: *** [blessmail] Error 2
> > > ------
> > 
> > 
> > This often happens boostraping Emacs on Cygwin.
> > Workaround: try to build in another nested directory.
> > Generally, a build with the above problem gives problems!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >    Angelo.
> 
> Regards,
>    Darel Henman
> 

Re: emacs snapshot tarball test build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "djh" <henman@it.to-be.co.jp>
> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:10:36 +0900
> 
> I was asked to try out building a snapshot tarball on cygwin and have just finished.

Thanks.

> Install did not complete successfully, but did install a workable newly built emacs.
> 
> The only problem is shown below (and maybe it is not a real problem).
> 
> --------
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/leim'
> cd lib-src; make maybe-blessmail  \
>           MAKE='make' archlibdir='/libexec/emacs/22.0.95/i686-pc-cygwin'
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
> ../src/emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l /usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src/../lisp/mail/blessmail.el
> Fatal error (6)make[1]: *** [blessmail] Aborted (core dumped)
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src'
> make: *** [blessmail] Error 2

To me, this looks as an evidence that the Emacs binary you built is
unreliable.  So I think we should not yet add GCC 4.1.3 to the the 3
safe versions of Cygwin GCC mentioned in PROBLEMS.

Thanks for working on this.

Re: emacs snapshot tarball test build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:37:11 -0400
> Cc: henman@it.to-be.co.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>     This often happens boostraping Emacs on Cygwin.
> 
>     Workaround: try to build in another nested directory.
> 
> Is this documented in the installation instructions?
> In etc/PROBLEMS?
> 
> If not, would someone like to add that info?

These are not workarounds that I'd recommend adding to PROBLEMS.

In general, if the problem only happens during bootstrap, and doesn't
have a good workarounds, I'd say let's ignore it.  Most Emacs users
will never bootstrap.

Re: emacs snapshot tarball test build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "djh" <henman@it.to-be.co.jp>
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:34:19 +0900
> Cc: djh <henman@it.to-be.co.jp>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> It would be good to know why "make" aborted on blessmail.el.  It was reported as
> "Fatal error (6)make[1]: *** [blessmail] Aborted (core dumped)" below.

It's not "make" who aborted, it's Emacs.  "make" just printed a
human-readable description of why Emacs died.

Re: emacs snapshot tarball test build

[djh]

> > The only problem is shown below (and maybe it is not a real problem).
> > --------
> > ../src/emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l /usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src/../lisp/mail/blessmail.el
> > Fatal error (6)make[1]: *** [blessmail] Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> To me, this looks as an evidence that the Emacs binary you built is
> unreliable.  So I think we should not yet add GCC 4.1.3 to the the 3
> safe versions of Cygwin GCC mentioned in PROBLEMS.

GCC 4.1.3 (actually gcc-core-4.1-20070312.tar.bz2 and friends) does provide for a 
robust build from cvs though (or did on March 13th anyway.)

Darel

Re: emacs snapshot tarball test build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: "djh" <henman@it.to-be.co.jp>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> From: "djh" <henman@it.to-be.co.jp>
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:32:49 +0900
> 
> > > The only problem is shown below (and maybe it is not a real problem).
> > > --------
> > > ../src/emacs -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -l /usr/src/emacs-tmp/emacs-22.0.95/lib-src/../lisp/mail/blessmail.el
> > > Fatal error (6)make[1]: *** [blessmail] Aborted (core dumped)
> > 
> > To me, this looks as an evidence that the Emacs binary you built is
> > unreliable.  So I think we should not yet add GCC 4.1.3 to the the 3
> > safe versions of Cygwin GCC mentioned in PROBLEMS.
> 
> GCC 4.1.3 (actually gcc-core-4.1-20070312.tar.bz2 and friends) does provide for a 
> robust build from cvs though (or did on March 13th anyway.)

How can you call it ``robust'' when it crashes while loading
blessmail?

Re: emacs snapshot tarball test build

[djh]

The cvs build with 4.1.20070312 did not crash when loading blessmail, and 
it hasn't yet crashed when using skk input method which gcc (GCC) 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125) did frequently.

> > 
> > GCC 4.1.3 (actually gcc-core-4.1-20070312.tar.bz2 and friends) does provide for a 
> > robust build from cvs though (or did on March 13th anyway.)
> 
> How can you call it ``robust'' when it crashes while loading
> blessmail?

So my question is why does it build cvs emacs well and not the bz2'd version.
To be accurate I should get a tarball the exact same date as the cvs version.

Darel Henman