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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Cc: 7642@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7642: Build failure on NetBSD 5.0.2 on IA-32
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:38:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipyucx98.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dgoc8nqw0p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:29:26 -0500")

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Chong Yidong wrote:
>
>> Nelson H. F. Beebe reports a build failure for the 23.2.91 pretest on
>> NetBSD 5.0.2 on IA-32.  The last Emacs version to build ok was 23.1.96
>> in April 2010:
>>
>>> On NetBSD, the configure step with both native /usr/bin/cc and
>>> gcc-4.4-20090123 fails like this:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> checking whether `alloca.c' needs Cray hooks... no
>>> checking stack direction for C alloca... -1
>>> configure: error: a system implementation of alloca is required
>
> The relevant part of the output is missing, but it looks like the
> system does not have an implementation of alloca. Support for systems
> without alloca was removed in 23.1. Does 23.1 currently build on that
> system? What does the rest of configure's output look like?

Nelson, could you post the rest of the entire configure log?  Thanks.

Surely NetBSD on IA-32 should have an alloca implementation; this is
strange.





  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-16  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CMM.0.95.0.1292278169.beebe@psi.math.utah.edu>
2010-12-15  1:39 ` bug#7642: Build failure on NetBSD 5.0.2 on IA-32 Chong Yidong
2010-12-15  8:29   ` Glenn Morris
2010-12-16  1:38     ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-12-16 17:03   ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2010-12-17 14:32     ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-16  3:23     ` Glenn Morris
2011-01-16  3:25     ` Glenn Morris
2011-01-27 20:51   ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-28 18:15     ` Glenn Morris
2010-12-15  1:41 ` bug#7643: Build failure for SGI IRIX MIPS Chong Yidong
2011-01-08 20:43   ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-10 17:54     ` Glenn Morris

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