Re: building NTEmacs

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es> writes:

> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:57:09 -0500, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>
>> Hum.  That doesn't sound like "with good results" to me!
>
> Ha, you're right; I was talking from the point of view of developing
> Emacs, not working with it.  Moreover, the crashes happen only on
> optimized builds, so is not *that* unstable :)
>
>> I need my emacs to work; I think I'd better stay away from that until
>> it's official, thanks.
>
> If you need a stable Emacs, you'd be better served using 21.2, or
> perhaps the EMACS_21_1_RC branch (soon-to-be 21.3).

With that branch I am getting:

...
Loading loadup (source)...
Using load-path (../lisp)
Loading byte-run (source)...
Loading subr (source)...
Loading version.el (source)...
Loading widget (source)...
Loading custom (source)...
Loading emacs-lisp/backquote (source)...
Loading map-ynp (source)...
Loading env (source)...
Loading cus-start (source)...
Loading international/mule (source)...
Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)...
Loading format (source)...
Loading bindings (source)...
Loading simple (source)...
Loading files (source)...
Lists of integers (garbage collection statistics) are normal output
while building Emacs; they do not indicate a problem.
((7071 . 10004) (3801 . 0) (515 . 24) 26708 21356 (3 . 0) (16 . 0) (687 . 1518))
Loading loaddefs.el (source)...
((18259 . 15151) (5719 . 0) (524 . 15) 43842 21356 (5 . 0) (16 . 0) (2563 . 2036))
Loading help (source)...
Cannot open load file: easy-mmode
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\src\emacs\src/obj-spd/i386/temacs.exe"' : return code '0xffffffff'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\VC98\BIN\NMAKE.EXE' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

> The HEAD has other unstabilities; I've had it crash while trying to
> access a remote file with Tramp and ssh, and lately I've seen a couple
> of non-easily repeatable redisplay bugs.

Yeah, I've been getting daily crashes with the HEAD.  But now I'm
addicted to the bold/italic Lucida console font, and if I can't back
up to the 21.3 branch I don't know what I'll do ;-)

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com