Issue building on MSWindows + msys

Issue building on MSWindows + msys

[Ergus]

Hi:

Building the master branch on MSWindows today (and same config than
before, nothing new)

I get this build error:

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grep.exe: ./international/uni-comment.el: binary file matches
grep.exe: ./international/uni-decimal.el: binary file matches
grep.exe: ./international/uni-decomposition.el: binary file matches
grep.exe: ./international/uni-digit.el: binary file matches
grep.exe: ./international/uni-lowercase.el: binary file matches
grep.exe: ./international/uni-mirrored.el: binary file matches
make[2]: *** [Makefile:330: pcmpl-gnu.elc] Error 3
make[2]: Leaving directory '/c/Users/t008593/Downloads/emacs/build/lisp'
grep.exe: ./international/uni-titlecase.el: binary file matches
grep.exe: ./international/uni-uppercase.el: binary file matches
make[2]: Entering directory '/c/Users/t008593/Downloads/emacs/build/lisp'
   ELC      emulation/viper-macs.elc
   ELC      emulation/viper-mous.elc
   ELC      emulation/viper-util.elc
   ELC      emulation/viper.elc
   ELC      erc/erc-autoaway.elc
   ELC      erc/erc-backend.elc
   ELC      erc/erc-button.elc
   ELC      erc/erc-capab.elc
   ELC      erc/erc-common.elc
   ELC      erc/erc-compat.elc
   ELC      erc/erc-dcc.elc
   ELC      erc/erc-desktop-notifications.elc
   ELC      erc/erc-ezbounce.elc
   ELC      erc/erc-fill.elc
   ELC      erc/erc-goodies.elc

Backtrace:
00007ff6c5ed101e
00007ff6c5d9a391
00007ff6c5dbc7c1
00007ff6c5f3630a
00007ffc58657ff0
00007ffc5a2123a7
00007ffc5a1c14ac
00007ffc5a210eb6
00007ff6c5e21c08
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ff6c5e2c1ba
00007ffbd17277c1
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ff6c5e2c1ba
00007ffbd17278e0
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd143516f
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd14356bb
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd1435612
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd1736502
00007ff6c5e2f3ee
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd17355ca
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd17320eb
00007ff6c5e2f3ee
00007ff6c5e78f8f
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd1747c1b
00007ffbd1747e6f
00007ffbd174820a
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd17309dc
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd173086e
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd1721fa3
00007ff6c5e78f8f
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ff6c5e3a1bf
00007ff6c5e3c7c9
00007ffbd1721f64
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd1730906
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd172e9bc
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd172f3da
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd172d50c
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd1752945
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd17523bf
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffbd180e282
00007ff6c5e2bbda
00007ffc2163f30b
00007ff6c5e2bbda
...
make[2]: *** [Makefile:330: erc/erc-goodies.elc] Error 3

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And a similar message (including backtrace) a bit latter:

make[2]: *** [Makefile:330: org/ob-eshell.elc] Error 3

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I made a clean build, make boostrap, git clean, rebuild from scratch etc
etc... and everytime I get the same error.

Anybody knows what's going on?? Did I something wrong or is there some
known issue related with this??

Best ad thanks in advance,
Ergus

Re: Issue building on MSWindows + msys

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:57:17 +0100
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> 
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:330: erc/erc-goodies.elc] Error 3
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> And a similar message (including backtrace) a bit latter:
> 
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:330: org/ob-eshell.elc] Error 3
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> I made a clean build, make boostrap, git clean, rebuild from scratch etc
> etc... and everytime I get the same error.
> 
> Anybody knows what's going on?? Did I something wrong or is there some
> known issue related with this??

Did you update any of your system utilities (like Grep) or libraries
lately?

Re: Issue building on MSWindows + msys

[Corwin Brust]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:45 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:57:17 +0100
> > From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> >
> > make[2]: *** [Makefile:330: erc/erc-goodies.elc] Error 3
> >
> > -------------------------
> >
> > And a similar message (including backtrace) a bit latter:
> >
> > make[2]: *** [Makefile:330: org/ob-eshell.elc] Error 3
> >
> > -------------------------
> >
> > I made a clean build, make boostrap, git clean, rebuild from scratch etc
> > etc... and everytime I get the same error.
> >
> > Anybody knows what's going on?? Did I something wrong or is there some
> > known issue related with this??
>

I'm not able to reproduce this.   One thing I do between builds that
you don't mention is:
  git clean -xfd

I'm not sure why that should be needed, but it replaces having to run
clean (or a variant), at the cost of having to run autogen.sh each
time.

In any case, grepping a log of my successful build, just now, for
error or warning messages I see only:

w32heap.c:853:14: warning: 'm' may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

Which is expected on Windows.

> Did you update any of your system utilities (like Grep) or libraries
> lately?
>

I didn't, FTR.

Re: Issue building on MSWindows + msys

[Ergus]

On November 15, 2023 5:45:15 PM GMT+01:00, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:57:17 +0100
>> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
>> 
>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:330: erc/erc-goodies.elc] Error 3
>> 
>> -------------------------
>> 
>> And a similar message (including backtrace) a bit latter:
>> 
>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:330: org/ob-eshell.elc] Error 3
>> 
>> -------------------------
>> 
>> I made a clean build, make boostrap, git clean, rebuild from scratch etc
>> etc... and everytime I get the same error.
>> 
>> Anybody knows what's going on?? Did I something wrong or is there some
>> known issue related with this??
>
>Did you update any of your system utilities (like Grep) or libraries
>lately?
>
Hi Eli:

I made a clean msys2 install and installed the same packages I had before. Everything from the official msys repositories 

The issue is weird because the compilation continues after the error, and completes apparently successfully (ignoring the errors). Except if I try 'make -j' In that case the error aborts the build.

After compiling and installing, the new emacs installation actually works, but it shows some issues. However, I will double check them before opening a bug report. For example the history search (up arrow) in the mini buffer is not working and says that there is no history match... (But the history file is there and is not corrupted)

Best,
Ergus

Re: Issue building on MSWindows + msys

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 23:00:03 +0100
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> 
> >Did you update any of your system utilities (like Grep) or libraries
> >lately?
> >
> Hi Eli:
> 
> I made a clean msys2 install and installed the same packages I had before. Everything from the official msys repositories 

I asked whether some of the system utilities and libraries are now
different from what they were before the clean install.  Because some
of those updates, and not some change in Emacs, could be the reason
for the problem you see.  For example, if you now have the latest
version of GCC, try to downgrade to the previous major GCC release,
and see if that helps.

> The issue is weird because the compilation continues after the error, and completes apparently successfully (ignoring the errors). Except if I try 'make -j' In that case the error aborts the build.

This could mean some issue with Make or with Bash.  But it's hard to
say without seeing the full output of the build that continues.

(In general, this should be discussed on the bug tracker, not here.)

> After compiling and installing, the new emacs installation actually works, but it shows some issues. However, I will double check them before opening a bug report. For example the history search (up arrow) in the mini buffer is not working and says that there is no history match... (But the history file is there and is not corrupted)

It should have been a bug report to begin with.