64-bit emacs crashes a lot

[Ryan Johnson]

On 15/08/2013 5:58 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 8/15/2013 5:24 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> On 15/08/2013 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 8/15/2013 4:55 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>>> ___chkstk_ms () at
>>>> /usr/src/debug/gcc-4.8.1-1/libgcc/config/i386/cygwin.S:146
>>>
>>> You're not using the latest gcc, which is 4.8.1-3.  Any chance that
>>> that's your problem?
>> Heh. I actually do have the latest gcc, but somehow the upgrade didn't
>> pick up the debug package (which showed as not installed in setup.exe).
>> I have manually upgraded it now.
>
> OK.  But doesn't the above show that the crash is occurring in gcc, 
> not emacs?
It's trying to grow the stack for alloca and something went wrong, I 
believe (though I didn't see where re_match_2_internal calls alloca)

>
>> BTW, how do you compile emacs from the sources given? I tried untarring
>> and patching, but I get the message:
>>> configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to `x86_64-unknown-cygwin'
>>> systems.
>>> Check `etc/MACHINES' for recognized configuration names.
>
> One of the patches changes configure.ac, so you have to run autoreconf 
> after applying it.
Hmm...

$ autoreconf -if
lib/gnulib.mk:42: GL_GENERATE_ALLOCA_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:121: gl_GNULIB_ENABLED_dosname does not appear in 
AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:159: GL_GENERATE_EXECINFO_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:224: gl_GNULIB_ENABLED_be453cec5eecf5731a274f2de7f2db36 
does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:323: gl_GNULIB_ENABLED_pathmax does not appear in 
AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:482: gl_GNULIB_ENABLED_stat does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:505: GL_GENERATE_STDALIGN_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:528: GL_GENERATE_STDARG_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:556: GL_GENERATE_STDBOOL_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:579: GL_GENERATE_STDDEF_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:609: GL_GENERATE_STDINT_H does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:901: gl_GNULIB_ENABLED_strtoll does not appear in 
AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:912: gl_GNULIB_ENABLED_strtoull does not appear in 
AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/gnulib.mk:1308: gl_GNULIB_ENABLED_verify does not appear in 
AM_CONDITIONAL
lib/Makefile.am:10:   `lib/gnulib.mk' included from here
lib/Makefile.am:5: library used but `RANLIB' is undefined
lib/Makefile.am:5:   The usual way to define `RANLIB' is to add 
`AC_PROG_RANLIB'
lib/Makefile.am:5:   to `configure.ac' and run `autoconf' again.
autoreconf-2.69: automake failed with exit status: 1

Did I miss something?

Ryan


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