Re: Symbol's chain of function indirections contains a loop

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Lennart Borgman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Lennart Borgman
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Christoph <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>     @echo **************************************************************
>>>>     @echo *** make info
>>>>     @echo **************************************************************
>>>
>>> Is this one of your scripts?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>>> Any hints? Anyone else seeing this kind of trouble on w32 lately?
>
> I noticed there where some strange processes running ssl.exe from
> strawberry perl so I tested to uninstall this perl and installing
> activeperl instead. After this I tried building Emacs and now it
> worked.
>
> Though I am still not sure where the problem really is. I have also
> disabled "Windows Search" and some other services. I might look deeper
> into this if I get time. Hints still very much appreciated.

I still see the problem when running ediff-buffers3. If I quickly do a
copy from C to A (i.e. "ca") and then a copy from C to B ("cb") then
Emacs hangs waiting for diff and diff3 to complete. If I kill diff.exe
everything works again.

If I do the above slowly there is no problem.