update: building emacs-21.2

["Jochen Küpper" <jochen@unc.edu>]

This is a copy of an article posted on gnu.emacs.help. I get the same
error on multiple systems with RedHat-7.0 and RedHat-7.1 updated to
gcc-3.2.x.

On 24 Aug 2002 12:50:37 -0400 Jochen Küpper wrote:

Jochen> temacs is succesfully build:
Jochen> ,----[ldd src/temacs]
Jochen> |         libXaw3d.so.7 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw3d.so.7 (0x40018000)
Jochen> |         libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40069000)
Jochen> |         libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4007f000)
Jochen> |         libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400cc000)
Jochen> |         libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400d5000)
Jochen> |         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400ed000)
Jochen> |         libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 (0x400fb000)
Jochen> |         libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x4013e000)
Jochen> |         libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x4015d000)
Jochen> |         libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4017e000)
Jochen> |         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4018c000)
Jochen> |         libungif.so.4 => /usr/lib/libungif.so.4 (0x401b0000)
Jochen> |         libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x401b8000)
Jochen> |         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401c7000)
Jochen> |         libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40295000)
Jochen> |         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x402d7000)
Jochen> |         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
Jochen> `----
Jochen> but doesn't do it's job:
Jochen> ,----[end of build-process]
Jochen> | LC_ALL=C ./temacs -batch -l loadup dump
Jochen> | Loading loadup (source)...
Jochen> | Using load-path (/tmp/emacs-21.2/lisp)
Jochen> | Loading byte-run...
Jochen> | Loading subr...
Jochen> | Loading version.el (source)...
Jochen> | Loading widget...
Jochen> | Loading custom...
Jochen> | Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
Jochen> | Loading map-ynp...
Jochen> | Loading env...
Jochen> | Loading cus-start (source)...
Jochen> | Loading international/mule...
Jochen> | Loading international/mule-conf.el (source)...
Jochen> | Loading format...
Jochen> | Loading bindings...
Jochen> | Loading simple...
Jochen> | Loading files...
Jochen> | Lists of integers (garbage collection statistics) are normal output
Jochen> | while building Emacs; they do not indicate a problem.
Jochen> | ((7024 . 6016) (3780 . 0) (485 . 3) 11478 21356 (3 . 0) (16 . 0) (617 . 1714))
Jochen> | Loading loaddefs.el (source)...
Jochen> | Maximum buffer size exceeded
Jochen> | make[1]: *** [emacs] Error 255
Jochen> | make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/emacs-21.2/src'
Jochen> | make: *** [src] Error 2
Jochen> `----

Jochen> Searching google I found recent messages about this problem only where
Jochen> people actually tried to load *large* files.

Jochen> Here lisp/loaddefs.h is about 800kB (as for everybody else, I guess:))

Greetings,
Jochen
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