From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25141: Compilation issue on AIX 7.1 and 64 bits Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 15:11:43 +0300 Message-ID: <831snp1erk.fsf@gnu.org> References: , <83inqaz8zp.fsf@gnu.org> , <83wpepxq72.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504354414 7182 195.159.176.226 (2 Sep 2017 12:13:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 12:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 25141@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eric LeBlanc Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 02 14:13:20 2017 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 1do7IX-0000r8-Vo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 14:13:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42671 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do7Ie-0002MM-VQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:13:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40759) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do7IR-0002Kb-D2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do7IM-0001l1-Eu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:13:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:32975) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do7IM-0001kw-Ai for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1do7IM-0001y7-1g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:13:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 12:13:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25141 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 25141-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B25141.15043543357511 (code B ref 25141); Sat, 02 Sep 2017 12:13:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25141) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Sep 2017 12:12:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41656 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1do7Ha-0001x4-MG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:12:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49546) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1do7HZ-0001wq-4F for 25141@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do7HO-000102-UR for 25141@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:12:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47221) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do7HE-0000xQ-FI; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:11:52 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1980 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1do7HD-0005TJ-Rn; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:11:52 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Eric LeBlanc on Sun, 25 Dec 2016 14:42:41 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:136464 Archived-At: unblock 24655 by 25141 thanks > From: Eric LeBlanc > Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 14:42:41 +0000 > Cc: "25141@debbugs.gnu.org" <25141@debbugs.gnu.org> > > Probably, but I won't count too much on 32 bits binary because we tried two RPM emacs packages, one from > IBM website and the other from BULLFREEWARE website and they both ended with a "Segmentation Fault" > with a core dump when we execute "emacs". > > I also played with LDR_CNTRL variable without any success. > > It seems that AIX 7.1 is very memory strict with 32 bits binaries and I'm sure that "unexec" is doing some > memory dump to the final emacs binary that AIX 7.1 doesn't like. > > That's why I'm tyring to compile in 64 bits. > > For the moment, "temacs" in 64 bits works well but slow to start. I'm stuck at 'unexaix' operation and I'm not > an expert in XCOFF binary file. I know that 'unexaix.c' isn't adapted for 64 bits binaries and I tried to make > some modifications as I wrote earlier by enabling __XCOFF64__ in "unexaix.c" source code, without success > since it generates a huge 4GB emacs binary, but I know I'm not so far to fix it. Without any additional comments during the last 8 months, and AIX being a platform of secondary importance, I don't see why this bug should block the release of Emacs 26.1. If you have any news on these issues, please tell. Thanks.