Re: [AUCTeX] Install fails with Emacs 24.0.50 on XP

[Uwe Siart]

On 15 Jan 2011 at 15:55, Ralf Angeli wrote:

> The file is mostly about debugging Emacs with gdb.  Do you have gdb
> installed?  If that's the case, open an MSYS shell, cd to the `src'
> directory below the Emacs installation/build directory and type the
> following (with a <RET> after every line):
> 
> gdb emacs
> cd <path to AUCTeX installation dir>
> r -batch -q -no-site-file -no-init-file -l lpath.el --eval '(let 
> ((generated-autoload-file (expand-file-name "auto-loads.el"))) (mapcar 
> (function update-file-autoloads) command-line-args-left) 
> (save-buffers-kill-emacs t))' tex.el
> 
> At this point Emacs should abort.  When this happens, try to get a
> C-level backtrace with `bt' and a Lisp-level backtrace with
> `xbacktrace'.

I'm sorry I don't have gdb here and also no experience in using it.

But it is helpful to know that this problem has nothing to do with 
AUCTeX. Maybe I can now find a minimal emacs command line call that 
evokes the crash. Then I could report it to bug-gnu-emacs.

Because I could not find any similar reports I also wonder if this 
effect is specific to my machine. I'm going to see if I can reproduce 
it on other XP machines before filing a report.

-- 
Uwe