Re: Building Emacs on WSL

[Angelo Graziosi]

Hi BIGS...

Il 16/12/2016 22:05, Eli Zaretskii ha scritto:
> > Cc:
> > From: Paul Eggert
> > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 09:48:35 -0800
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > If you want this issue solved, please attach a debugger to temacs, and
> > > post the backtrace, preferably after filing a bug report.
> >
> > I thought the goal was to get portable dumping working soon? If so, this problem
> > with WSL ought to be low priority, as portable dumping will make this porting
> > problem irrelevant.
>
> We don't know yet what caused this problem.  And I don't think future
> developments should prevent users from reporting bugs.  We can, of
> course, decide not to fix this or that bug, but I don't think we
> should tell users we don't want to hear about them.

I understand this is a low priority issue if it is... Remember that WSL 
is marked as "beta". I flagged this only for the record, just in case 
someone had a similar experience.

BTW, in my builds of emacs-25 branch I notice a more serious issue. 
After "M-x package-list-packages", in the Packages buffer I cannot type 
anything. If I do, I get, embedded in that buffer,

[1]+ Stopped

and the Bash prompt, as if I had typed C-z, and 'fg' seems partially 
resurrect Emacs, but it is unusable. I have to close WSL window. In 
short I cannot install packages from MELPA/ELPA with these builds.

This issue is absent if I install (in WSL) the Ubuntu package 
emacs24-nox with apt-get...

I did also a build of emacs-25 using more or less the same "configure" 
with which emacs24-nox is built in Ubuntu. But no good results.


Ciao,
 Angelo.