bug#14569: 24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin

[Ken Brown]

On 6/15/2013 8:47 AM, Jan Djärv wrote:
> Hello.
>
> 15 jun 2013 kl. 12:42 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
> > > From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
> > > Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:54:16 +0200
> > > Cc: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>,
> > > 14569@debbugs.gnu.org
> > >
> > > > What are the difficulties of catching this when Emacs is run under
> > > > GDB?
> > >
> > > Its not difficult, but takes some time.  The error happens when make compiles 
> > > one lisp file at the time with emacs.  It appears to be random so it does not 
> > > crash in the same lisp-file.  Thus, you have to start emacs from gdb, and repet 
> > > run, quit in gdb for each lisp file until it crashes.  Running in gdb is slow 
> > > with cygwin, and running in gdb makes the bug appear less often.
> > >
> > > The make rule is in lisp/Makefile, compile-onefile.
> >
> > Would it make things easier if compile-onefile is modified to invoke
> > Emacs under GDB to begin with, using the --args switch to GDB?
>
> That is what I do.

Can you tell me exactly how you modified the rule for compile-onefile? 
I tried but kept getting errors, so I'm obviously not doing it right.

Thanks.

Ken