Re: build error

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "d.henman" <dhenman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:36:55 +0900
>> cc: 
>> 
>> In end of data:
>> bytecomp.el:4255:1:Warning: the function `compilation-forget-errors' is not
>>     known to be defined.
>> Wrote /usr/cvs/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc
>> Compiling /usr/cvs/emacs/lisp/subr.el
>> Fatal error (6)/bin/sh: line 4:  3088 Aborted                 (core dumped) EMACSLOADPATH=/usr/cvs/emacs/lisp ../src/bootstrap-emacs.exe -batch --no-site-file --multibyte -f batch-byte-compile-if-not-done $el
>> make[2]: *** [compile] Error 1
>> 
>> --- end of paste
>> 
>> I get from this, that subr.el is the file being compliled when core is dumped, and
>> that this is a compiler fatal error #6 ?
>
> Yes.  Fatal error 6 is SIGABRT (see your signal.h header file), as the
> "Aborted" part says.  If Emacs was aborted, it means that Emacs exited
> abnormally, most probably via the call to the `abort' function.  The
> Emacs sources routinely place the calls to that function where there
> are situations that ``cannot happen'', in order to force a core dump
> that can be debugged to find the reasons.
>
> But it could also be that /bin/sh (presumably the Cygwin port of Bash)
> was the one who aborted,

Definitely not.  The printed message clearly points at
bootstrap-emacs.exe as the culprit.

Andreas.

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