Subject: bug#18516: 24.4.50; EMACS crashes when I try to open Elisp manual

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:00:11 +0300

> From: Vincent Belaïche <[email-masked]> 
> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:55:48 +0200
> Cc: Vincent Belaïche <[email-masked]>
> 
> I tried to start Emacs from gdb (the latter started from an MSYS
> console) but then I got that xbacktrace is not supported.

You need to start GDB from the src directory of the Emacs tree.