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.devel Subject: Re: MPS: Win64 testers? Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:08:40 +0300 Message-ID: <868qwa9utj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86r0a3ahm9.fsf@gnu.org> <86plpnacsd.fsf@gnu.org> <86jzfva8k3.fsf@gnu.org> <87zfor2m6x.fsf@protonmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14610"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: kien.n.quang@gmail.com, sebastian@sebasmonia.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, yantar92@posteo.net To: Pip Cet Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 02 13:09:43 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1sl4wH-0003ZX-G4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:09:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sl4vX-0003ZC-2c; Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:08:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sl4vV-0003Z0-05 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sl4vU-0004tg-MF; Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:08:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=IUmBkvX+6K8f2rwSH3z7+jL+2ozbDGeh95lWxma6NCo=; b=POZRSytJnN9S b8JFR3ukL+BrMRderED/HKr1OIb+8SXTZsIjz2z+m1n1VOOvDutx+CUMw2Aenc1xQgcjdhAvx+X4J mUDrXUjrxyvczd0PVq0JzjkDf6cAZ0gZgRAVAeEHy4lAD9p+dqcyyoDjkrHLA78wuTFCsF6nneFK3 SgnFaFdlkLZnvqUzLslwkMLulpMAqS+FOWll59BVV6WY8jqxn+11pV0hWgh3u5Ydy6MLRiy9QzuQs QkLaAEdwb4kxcpU+Hpl6LM2vywQUMYDwNbGDVj5E4xGpGsyhpAGsfi19DHdMh2D6I6cgxP2w1IK+o YuB9vwaZ+5yJBFtpl6hiQQ==; In-Reply-To: <87zfor2m6x.fsf@protonmail.com> (message from Pip Cet on Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:44:43 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:323275 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:44:43 +0000 > From: Pip Cet > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , sebastian@sebasmonia.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, yantar92@posteo.net > > "Kien Nguyen" writes: > > > On the other hand, doesn't this require me to run `gdb` under Emacs's > > `src`? So, for others who want to try the pre-built version and get the > > debug backtrace, they will need to download the `gdbinit` file or clone > > the Emacs source code and run `gdb` from the `src` folder. That can be a > > bit of work, though. > > Can we make it easier for those brave testers by including the gdbinit > file (and, ideally, an indication of where to download the precise > sources used to build Emacs) in the zip file, and print them out when > GDB is started? We could include .gdbinit in the binary distribution, but it isn't worth much without the sources anyway. > For example, your latest crash report has line numbers in it that do not > precisely match those of the scratch/igc branch, and it wasn't > immediately obvious to me how to look them up... The sources of development branches are only available from Git anyway.