random crashing with bootstrap emacs (cvs) under solaris (SunOS 5.8)

["Mark Aufflick" <mark@aufflick.com>]

Hi,



I have been trying for some time to get emacs cvs compiled on Solaris.



When I get to the stage of make bootstrap where make autoloads is running

in the lisp directory, the bootstrap emacs crashes (segfault) randomly.

It crashes at a different lisp file each time and I even managed to make

it get all the way through by doing:



while ! make EMACS=../src/bootstrap-emacs compile; do echo 'try

again!'; done



and waiting an hour!



I then had further problems so I bootstrapped the code on a different

(non-solaris) machine.



Now I am getting problems while compiling the quail directory.



I have done a heck of a lot of googling to no avail and before I dig

further into the code I am wondering if anyone here can give me some

tips.



Cheers,



Mark Aufflick.