bug#28308: Build failure on FreeBSD/aarch64

[Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>]

tags 28308 fixed
close 28308 26.1
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Gergely Czuczy <gergely.czuczy@harmless.hu> writes:

> On 2017. 10. 31. 18:31, Noam Postavsky wrote:

>> --- a/configure.ac
>> +++ b/configure.ac
>> @@ -2206,7 +2206,7 @@ AC_DEFUN
>>   case "$opsys" in
>>     ## darwin ld insists on the use of malloc routines in the System framework.
>>     darwin | mingw32 | nacl | sol2-10) ;;
>> -  cygwin) hybrid_malloc=yes
>> +  freebsd | cygwin) hybrid_malloc=yes
>>             system_malloc= ;;
>>     *) test "$ac_cv_func_sbrk" = yes &&
>> system_malloc=$emacs_cv_sanitize_address;;

Oops, I had some line wrapping here.

> So, the amd64 and the aarch64 builds have finished:
> GNU Emacs 26.0.50 (build 1, amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) of 2017-11-02
> GNU Emacs 26.0.50 (build 1, aarch64-portbld-freebsd12.0) of 2017-11-02
>
> Both are functional.

Thanks for testing.  If they report as 26.0.50 rather than 26.0.90 you
may be applying to a somewhat old branch, but the dumping code has not
been updated since then so it shouldn't be a problem.

> Regarding updating the port, that's rather simple, you don't have to
> update the whole OS or anything similar.

I rather meant figuring out how to configure the network connection with
qemu.

> If this version will be the fix for the issue, could you please let me
> know which commit has it? I would like to let the port's maintainer
> know, so he can update the port in the master branch, fixing aarch64
> support finally.

I've cleaned up the gmalloc part of the patch a bit, and pushed to
emacs-26, see 918a2dda07.

[1: 918a2dda07]: 2017-11-04 18:49:28 -0400
  Use hybrid malloc for FreeBSD (Bug#28308)
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=918a2dda07ebf16601a93d0464f62c4e846d8b39