Another Emacs/3b1 problem (M-x compile)

[wilber at alice.UUCP]

Once again I make a public fool of myself ... two days after I posted my
problem with Emacs rmail I look in the emacs errata directory and there it is
-- Brant Cheikes' mods to fix exactly the bug I described.  I had only to
compile it in and enable the appropriate hacks.  Here's another Emacs bug
that's been bothering me for some time, and this one I'm pretty sure doesn't
have a fix lying six inches in front of my nose.

When I do a "make" (using M-x compile) everything works fine if there are no
compile or link errors.  However, when there are errors the compilation process
never terminates -- it hangs, with the buffer mode line still saying "run".  If
I do another M-x compile it asks me if I want to kill the current compilation,
I say yes, and then the original make seems to finish up -- error messages that
weren't displayed originally appear in the *compilation* buffer and then the
make terminates (the mode line says "exit").  Doing M-x compile for the third
time starts a second make, which again hangs in the middle.

I am using the PD pty drivers for the 3b1. (HAVE_PTYS is defined.)  If anybody
has a fix for this I'd like to hear about it.

Bob Wilber    {ihnp4, mtune}!gauss!wilber  wilber at research.att.com


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