From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11170: emacs install/upgrade fails Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:47:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20120404091749.14d420c9@dragon.agroecology> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333655319 32758 80.91.229.3 (5 Apr 2012 19:48:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 19:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11170@debbugs.gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 05 21:48:38 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SFsfd-0004yL-Ib for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:48:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFsfZ-0004JL-40 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:48:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36656) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFsfW-0004Ix-5q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFsfU-00086h-AS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:48:29 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45248) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFsfU-00086X-8M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:48:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SFsg2-00027Q-9s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:49:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:49:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11170 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 11170-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11170.13336553188113 (code B ref 11170); Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:49:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11170) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Apr 2012 19:48:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41786 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SFsfe-00026o-5e for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:48:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:54853) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SFsfc-00026h-3N for 11170@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFsf1-0006Mf-Pd; Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:47:59 -0400 X-Spook: military e-cash argus SSL War on Terrorism ICE SWAT X-Ran: i*O"+u[@AM!i;)z!G3rcQ'\Hs/cdLCFDP,EWtd=M$'UeXJNlGCgcX0U(;@xr1P.]6A{ X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:28:31 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:58534 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > I have not built Emacs from source for months. Right, but you have done it at some point, so it's not fundamentally impossible on that machine type. (This report is about Emacs 23.4.) Related Debian bug reports show that the same issue has been seen in 22.3 and 23.1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585403 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566947 The 23.1 case was apparently fixed with some change to Debian's binutils package.