From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Maier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.windows Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Current word on binaries Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:33:50 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <009901c3ec70$b3013940$6400a8c0@austin.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076751300 28559 80.91.224.253 (14 Feb 2004 09:35:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 14 10:34:51 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArwCJ-0001xj-00 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:34:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArwC0-0005nJ-4k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 04:34:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArwBw-0005n8-1z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 04:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArwBP-0005jg-5g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 04:34:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.188] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArwBO-0005jc-Oy; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 04:33:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.209] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1ArwBN-0000NS-00; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:33:53 +0100 Original-Received: from [80.136.232.3] (helo=ate.maierh) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1ArwBM-0000z8-00; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:33:53 +0100 Original-Received: by ate.maierh (Postfix, from userid 500) id 621541320E; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:33:50 +0100 (CET) Original-To: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Harald Maier's message of "Fri, 06 Feb 2004 12:27:43 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:7f9705e6678292fb4e27195dea438aa3 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6956 gmane.emacs.windows:2010 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6956 Harald Maier writes: > "David Vanderschel" writes: > >> On February 4 wrote in message >> news:... >> Hello, >> >> I've installed the binary packages (fullbin and barebin) of emacs >> 21.3 compiled for Windows, available at >> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ The binary packages don't >> work neither on Windows 2000, nor on Windows 98. They crash. >> >> Emacs remains an outstanding editor. Thank you for it. >> Best regards, > > I tried it too and I found too that something goes wrong. 'emacs -q' > works fine, but when I tried to load my .emacs it displays the 'Emacs > Abort Dialog' and complains that 'A fatal error has occured!' I did some additional tests and it looks that the problem occurs only if emacs-21.3 is compiled with a latest cygwin gcc. I did two test with the emacs-21.3.tar.gz from March last year and the actual tarball from ftp.gnu.org. On both sources the same happens, so it does not look that something has changed since the compromise of the server. Afterwards I compiled emacs with MSVC and the result is that all works as expected. Currently I have no clue why the problem with gcc happens. On my system I have also the latest cvs emacs and that is always compiled by the cygwin gcc and it works very well. Maybe other people have an idea why the problem occurs only on the emacs-21.3 sources. I would suggest that we change the current distribution from a mingw compilation to a msvc compilation. Harald