GNU bug report logs - #4038
emacs 23 fails to bootstrap itself on Cygwin

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Terrence Brannon <metaperl <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:40:06 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 4038 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>
Cc: 4038 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, knubee <knubee <at> gmail.com>,
        Teodor Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
Subject: Re: bug#4038: emacs 23 fails to bootstrap itself on Cygwin
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:21:37 +0200

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi> writes:

> "git bisect run make" found that the first bad commit is this:
>
>
> commit 3cd069ec588527f4baac7a71d93ccc080668eebf
> Author: Teodor Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
> Date:   Wed Aug 5 09:19:21 2009 +0000
>
>     * lread.c (read1, syms_of_lread): Read hashtables back from the
>     readable format.
>     
>     * print.c (print_preprocess, print_object): Print hashtables fully
>     and readably.
>     (syms_of_print): Provide 'hashtable-print-readable.

The problem is the call to Fprovide.  syms_of_print is called pretty
early, so the symbols used by Fprovide are not initialized yet.

Andreas.

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