Re: emacs bootstrap hangs on Windows XP / mingw

[Dieter Deyke <Dieter_Deyke@CoCreate.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Dieter Deyke <Dieter_Deyke@CoCreate.com>
>> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:01:01 -0700
>>
>> Looking at the process list I see that the following command is
>> executing:
>>
>> C:\Users\deyke\emacs-build\subdir\work\bin\emacs.exe -batch
>> --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l loaddefs -f
>> batch-byte-compile-if-not-done
>> C:/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/lisp/info-look.el
>>
>> emacs gets no CPU time at all.
>
> Can you attach GDB to the running Emacs, and see where it is hung?

I tried, but gdb does not seem to be able to interrupt emacs. I see the
message:

Attaching to program
`/c/Users/deyke/emacs-build/subdir/work/bin/emacs.exe', process 18884

but then get no gdb command line, even after hitting C-c, or Break.

Hints?
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