Re: building NTEmacs

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

Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es> writes:

> On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:17:49 -0500, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah, but the nt installation instructions don't say I should "make
>> bootstrap", do they? ;-)
>
> On HEAD there's a INSTALL-CVS on the root directory, though you're right
> there is none on EMACS_21_1_RC. :(
>
>> Once I do that and the -kb dance with my .tit files (oh, and I had to
>> make lisp/loaddefs.el writable because I checkout with CVSREAD set),
>> it seems to be working.
>
> Glad to hear.
>
>> What kind?  The "emacs crashed; do you want to send a report to
>> Microsoft?" window comes up.  I click "no" instead of dropping into
>> the debugger because I figure the build is surely optimized.
>
> Uh? AFAIK, there's no prebuilt binary for HEAD (we don't do nightly
> tarballs, etc.), so *you* should know if the executable you're building
> is optimized or not, shouldn't you?

Only if I know what the build/install process does by default.  It's
not as though I went crawling into the nmake file to figure out what
was happening.

>> I don't think anything I was doing was causing images to be
>> displayed, so there must be crashes elsewhere.
>
> As I said, I've been a few on my system, but nothing as serious as
> "daily crashes", so it'd be *really* helpful to try entering the
> debugger to see where's Emacs crashing.

It would only help if there were debug symbols, and I don't know
whether there are. Also, since I now have the release candidate I'm
unlikely to have an opportunity to do that unless this one crashes
too.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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