From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24857: emacs24/25 FTBFS since a long time on GNU/Hurd Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 08:20:59 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <07351ee5-2e25-5a8b-0603-db4ad7458970@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478100180 3867 195.159.176.226 (2 Nov 2016 15:23:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 15:23:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 Cc: Svante Signell To: 24857@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 02 16:22:55 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c1xMf-0003qq-Ej for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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The latest version building was Debian 24.5+1-5, from 27 Nov 2015. Even before successful builds were by pure luck. One suspicious issue is that emacs use sbrk() for memory allocation, right? Notably sbrk() is not fool-proof as implemented for Hurd in glibc. Use of sbrk is found in files alloc.c, unexelf.c and gmalloc.c, which are all compiled. Avoiding compilation of ralloc.c with 0001-Default-REL_ALLOC-to- no.patch did not improve the situation. First time I compiled emacs 25.1 from upstream it passed, second time not. Compiling Debian versions almost always fail. Moslty the build fails with temacs failing to execute: Killed. In my opionion it's a real loss not to gave a modern version of emacs25 available for use in GNU/Hurd (not everybody use vi). Do anybody of you have an idea on how to solve this problem? Are there patches available already to try with? Thanks in advance :)