Subject: Re: bug#25721: 26.0.50; Stuck `compile' when Gnus runs concurrently

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:53:04 +0200

> From: [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:02:14 +0100
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> ACTIONS:
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> 1.
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> M-; (make-thread #'gnus)
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> 2.
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> Goto a directory with something to compile with the command 'make'.
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> 3.
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> M-x compile make
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> OBSERVATION:
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> The buffer *compile* does not display the progress of the compilation.
> It looks like beeing 'stuck'.
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> WANT:
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> The buffer *compile*  displays the progress of the compilation.
> 

If Gnus keeps the other thread busy, then Emacs will never become
idle, in which case this is normal, because Emacs only reads output
from subprocesses when it's idle.