bug#12805: 24.2.50; Cygw32 build break

[Ken Brown]

On 11/5/2012 11:38 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:04:05 +0900
> > From: Kazuhiro Ito <kzhr@d1.dion.ne.jp>
> >
> > w32fns.c: In function 'emacs_abort':
> > w32fns.c:7763:8: warning: implicit declaration of function '_open_osfhandle'
> > w32fns.c:7765:8: warning: implicit declaration of function 'write'
> > w32fns.c:7766:6: warning: implicit declaration of function '_open'
> > w32fns.c:7769:3: warning: implicit declaration of function 'lseek'
> > w32fns.c:7794:8: warning: implicit declaration of function 'close'
> > (snip)
> > gcc -std=gnu99  -Demacs  -I. -I/build/emacs/trunk/src  -I../lib 
> > -I/build/emacs/trunk/src/../lib           -I/usr/include/libxml2           -MMD 
> > -MF deps/.d -MP   -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1      -g3 -O2   -L/usr/lib/noX \
> >    -o temacs pre-crt0.o dispnew.o frame.o scroll.o xdisp.o menu.o  window.o  
> > charset.o coding.o category.o ccl.o character.o chartab.o bidi.o  cm.o term.o 
> > terminal.o xfaces.o     emacs.o keyboard.o macros.o keymap.o sysdep.o  buffer.o 
> > filelock.o insdel.o marker.o  minibuf.o fileio.o dired.o  cmds.o casetab.o 
> > casefiddle.o indent.o search.o regex.o undo.o  alloc.o data.o doc.o editfns.o 
> > callint.o  eval.o floatfns.o fns.o font.o print.o lread.o  syntax.o unexcw.o 
> > bytecode.o  process.o gnutls.o callproc.o  region-cache.o sound.o atimer.o  
> > doprnt.o intervals.o textprop.o composite.o xml.o  profiler.o     sheap.o 
> > cygw32.o   w32fns.o w32menu.o w32reg.o w32font.o w32term.o w32xfns.o 
> > w32select.o w32uniscribe.o fontset.o fringe.o image.o  terminfo.o  gmalloc.o   
> > lastfile.o vm-limit.o   ../lib/libgnu.a  -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lole32 
> > -lcomdlg32 -lusp10 -lcomctl32 -lwinspool   -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng -lz -lm -lgif 
> > -lXpm              -lxml2 -lz -liconv -lm       -lncurses          -L!
/u!
>   sr/
> >   bin -lgnutls -lnettle -lhogweed -lgmp -ltasn1 -lp11-kit -lz   -lpthread
> > w32fns.o: In function `emacs_abort':
> > /build/emacs/trunk/src/w32fns.c:7763: undefined reference to `__open_osfhandle'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > Makefile:632: recipe for target `temacs.exe' failed
> > make[1]: *** [temacs.exe] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/emacs/trunk/src'
> > Makefile:334: recipe for target `src' failed
> > make: *** [src] Error 2
>
> Sorry, I didn't expect cygw32 to use emacs_abort implementation on
> w32fns.c.  Now I see this in sysdep.c:
>
>    #ifndef HAVE_NTGUI
>    void
>    emacs_abort (void)
>    {
>      terminate_due_to_signal (SIGABRT, 10);
>    }
>    #endif
>
> I think I fixed the problem (in trunk revision 110806), please test,
> as I don't have Cygwin installed to test this myself.
>
> However, I don't understand why would the cygw32 build use the Windows
> abort dialog, when the Cygwin/X build uses the Posix facilities
> instead.  The cygw32 is still a Cygwin program, so I think it would be
> confusing for Cygwin users to have such a radical change in behavior
> under fatal error.

I agree.  It certainly confused me a few weeks ago when I was testing 
the cygw32 build and unexpectedly got the Windows abort dialog.

Ken