Re: (Partial) Success Re: emacs23.3 issues and hurd signals

[Svante Signell]

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:24 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 10:17 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
...
> > The problem is probably not the name of the NEWS or GNU file, but the
> > fact that the search for /etc now works, which activates some more code,
> > which is probably the one that poses problem.

Found a LANG setting for AIX in src/callproc.c but that did not help for
Hurd.

> Yes, but building from the GNU source has the file GNU defined, and
> compile succeeds for that tarball. When applying the Debian patch (I
> have tried to remove all 13 of them, one at a time, believe me) the
> compile goes wrong on Hurd, but not on other OSes. In order to get a
> successful build, I had to soft link .../emacs23-23.3+1/etc/charsets
> to  /usr/share/emacs/23.3/etc/. Since then I've had no time to
> investigate further.

I can now get a stable freeze by writing a to a logfile during the
build. Then the freeze happens even before dumping of emacs:

dpkg-buildpackage -b > ../build_x.log 2>&1 &

and after the first freeze (otherwise the compile never continues
without writing to a log file)

dpkg-buildpackage -b -nc >> ../build_x.log 2>&1 & 

I saw the page http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/emacs.html
by Thomas, being able to give commands in the Mach console, but for me
the freeze is totally locking up kvm/hurd/mach.