From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Build failure for Emacs master
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:18:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k2jzgu8d.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 837ffze3dx.fsf@gnu.org
On Fri 15 Apr 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:30:19 +0100
>>
>> >> (gdb) p/x ¤t_buffer->text->beg[0]
>> >> $4 = 0x65a0000
>> >> (gdb) find /b9 current_buffer->text->beg,current_buffer->text->beg+GPT_BYTE-1,0
>> >> 0x66c36b4
>> >> 1 pattern found.
>> >
>> > That's not the nulls you reported. What is the value of GPT_BYTE at
>> > this point, and what is the value of Z_BYTE?
>>
>> It's not the same binary - efforts to detect what causes the corruption
>> necessitate rebuilding.
>
> You said you can reproduce this at will, so I thought doing that is
> not a problem, and then the values would be the same as in this run.
> Apologies if I misunderstood.
I can reproduce this repeatably from running make, or after building
bootstrap-emacs.exe using just the command line used to update
loadddefs.el.
Attempts to debug with bootstrap-emacs -Q and evaluating the equivalent
commands in the scratch buffer (or loaded from a file) do not show the
problem. Running under gdb gives variable results.
>> > Sorry, I'm still confused: are the nulls coming from a previous
>> > loaddefs.el, or are they coming from Emacs? If the latter, is it true
>> > that to reproduce the problem, you need to start from a clean tree,
>> > but use an outdated version of ldefs-boot.el?
>>
>> As I understand it, building from a clean tree:
>> a) temacs.exe is built (a bare emacs)
>> b) bootstrap-emacs.exe is built from temacs.exe, using ldefs-boot.el
>
> The last part is only true if there's no loaddefs.el file in the
> tree. See the commentary and the relevant code in loadup.el. If
> loaddefs.el does exist, bootstrap-emacs build will use it.
Noted, but here I am building from a clean tree so that loaddefs.el does
not exist.
>> As one of my experiments produced a good loaddefs.el, I did this:
>> - start from a completely clean emacs-25 tree
>> - overwrite ldefs-boot.el with the previously built loaddefs.el
>> - do a full bootstrap, which succeeded.
>
> What are the differences between that "successful" loaddefs.el and
> ldefs-boot.el which produces a corrupted loaddefs.el? The only
> changes I see are in the time stamp cookies.
The changes I see are:
- timestamp changes
- changed autoloads from your changes to grep.el
- changes to the files listed in the comment at the end.
--[diff ldefs-boot.el loaddefs.el]------------------------------------
@@ -12876,16 +12829,22 @@
The default grep program for `grep-command' and `grep-find-command'.
This variable's value takes effect when `grep-compute-defaults' is called.")
-(defvar find-program (purecopy "find") "\
+(custom-autoload 'grep-program "grep" t)
+
+(defvar grep-find-program (purecopy "find") "\
The default find program.
This is used by commands like `grep-find-command', `find-dired'
and others.")
-(defvar xargs-program (purecopy "xargs") "\
+(custom-autoload 'grep-find-program "grep" t)
+
+(defvar grep-xargs-program (purecopy "xargs") "\
The default xargs program for `grep-find-command'.
See `grep-find-use-xargs'.
This variable's value takes effect when `grep-compute-defaults' is called.")
+(custom-autoload 'grep-xargs-program "grep" t)
+
(defvar grep-find-use-xargs nil "\
How to invoke find and grep.
If `exec', use `find -exec {} ;'.
--[diff ldefs-boot.el loaddefs.el]------------------------------------
Should the define-obsolete-variable-alias forms for find-program and
xargs-program be marked as autoloads ?
>> I do not know if replacing ldefs-boot.el with a freshly built loaddefs.el
>> fixed the problem, or simply moved the timing around enough that this
>> Heisenbug no longer occurred.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand: what timing could change as result of
> modifying one of the inputs? Are you saying that the differences (in
> size or content) are so significant s to affect the time to read the
> file into memory?
No, but changing the content of ldefs-boot.el can change the timing and
behaviour of the bootstrap-emacs.exe that is built from it. Whether the
observed bug is timing related or completely deterministic is not yet
known.
AndyM
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2016-02-23 22:11 Build failure for Emacs master Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-23 23:14 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-24 0:23 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-24 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24 9:36 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-24 10:20 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-24 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24 22:20 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-25 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-04 21:50 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-05 7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-05 13:53 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-05 20:59 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-06 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-06 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-06 22:00 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-03-06 17:37 ` Andy Moreton
2016-03-06 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-12 0:36 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-12 11:36 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-12 20:54 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-12 22:52 ` MS-Windows warnings (was build failure) " Paul Eggert
2016-04-12 23:36 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-13 5:49 ` Yuri Khan
2016-04-13 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-13 18:06 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-13 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-19 15:46 ` Davis Herring
2016-04-19 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-19 19:19 ` Davis Herring
2016-04-12 15:28 ` Build failure " Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-12 21:00 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-12 21:49 ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-13 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-13 23:11 ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-14 7:32 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-14 16:06 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-14 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-14 16:50 ` O_BINARY and emacs_open (was: Build failure for Emacs master) Paul Eggert
2016-04-15 11:08 ` Build failure for Emacs master Phillip Lord
2016-04-15 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-18 19:08 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-18 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-18 20:05 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-18 21:10 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-20 8:18 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-20 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-20 16:55 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-20 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-20 17:59 ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-21 10:46 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-14 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-14 17:06 ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-14 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-14 18:40 ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-14 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-14 20:30 ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-15 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-15 8:18 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2016-04-15 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-15 15:36 ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-18 8:31 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-18 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-18 23:48 ` Andy Moreton
2016-04-19 9:58 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-19 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-19 21:15 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-19 21:18 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-19 21:20 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-20 0:26 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-20 14:25 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-12 22:42 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-13 20:12 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-13 21:32 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-13 22:00 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-14 1:31 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-14 8:03 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-14 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-14 15:58 ` Building Emacs on MSYS2 (was: Build failure for Emacs master) Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-14 16:09 ` Building Emacs on MSYS2 Paul Eggert
2016-04-14 16:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-14 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-14 16:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-14 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-14 20:09 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-15 15:03 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-15 15:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-15 17:30 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-15 17:58 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-15 19:15 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-15 19:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-15 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-15 20:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-15 20:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-15 21:37 ` Stephen Leake
2016-04-15 22:11 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-16 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-17 21:46 ` Fixing imagemagick on W32 Stephen Leake
2016-04-18 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-16 6:30 ` Building Emacs on MSYS2 Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-16 12:17 ` Stephen Leake
2016-04-16 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-16 20:34 ` png in emacs 25 mingw64 Stephen Leake
2016-04-16 21:02 ` Stephen Leake
2016-04-17 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-17 2:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-18 12:32 ` Building Emacs on MSYS2 Phillip Lord
2016-04-15 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-15 20:17 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-15 21:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-14 16:15 ` Building Emacs on MSYS2 (was: Build failure for Emacs master) Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-14 16:43 ` Building Emacs on MSYS2 Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-14 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-14 16:36 ` Build failure for Emacs master Angelo Graziosi
2016-04-14 16:39 ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-14 1:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-14 2:04 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-14 14:41 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-24 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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