Re: Please test the merge of the concurrency branch

[Robert Marshall]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> I've pushed to the Emacs Git repository a new branch named
> 'test-concurrency'.  It's the result of merging the concurrency branch
> with a week-old master, followed by fixing a few bugs I found (after
> resolving the merge conflicts).
>
> This is tested on Trisquel GNU/Linux (x86_64 build) and on MS-Windows
> (x86 build with wide ints).  "Tested" here means that it builds,
> passes the test suite as well as the master version on the same
> machine, passes the new tests that test the concurrency features, and
> the basic functionalities that are affected by the concurrency-related
> changes -- subprocesses and networking -- work as well as they do on
> master.
>
> The new concurrency features are not thoroughly tested, so I expect
> bugs to be reported when people start using them seriously.  I don't
> think that should preclude us from landing this on master, though, as
> long as the "usual", a.k.a. "single-threaded" Emacs works as well as
> the master branch.
>

It fails to build for me

 CC       category.o
In file included from thread.h:22:0,
                 from lisp.h:797,
                 from category.c:33:
regex.h:438:9: error: unknown type name ‘ssize_t’
(and a few more complaints about ssize_t)

        Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 (jessie)

Robert