Subject: bug#14569: 24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin

From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:34:29 -0400

On 6/24/2013 7:50 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Only after applying this 2nd solution, i.e. the patch
>
> $ cat process.c.patch
> --- emacs-trunk/src/process.c    2013-06-24 12:28:49.562500000 +0200
> +++ emacs/src/process.c    2013-06-25 01:11:52.890625000 +0200
> @@ -7085,8 +7085,8 @@
>        Do this here, rather than early in Emacs initialization where it
>        might make more sense, to try to avoid bugs in Cygwin glib
> (Bug#14569).  */
>     {
> -    GSource *source = g_child_watch_source_new (getpid ());
> -    g_source_unref (source);
> +    /*GSource *source = g_child_watch_source_new (getpid ());
> +      g_source_unref (source);*/
>     }
>   #endif
>
> the bootstrap completed *without* errors! (With just the first, the same
> errors shows up in the build log...)

My experience is the same.  Thanks for the reminder that it's necessary 
to check the build log for error messages, even when the build appears 
to complete successfully.

Ken