I am unable to build trunk on Ubuntu 10.10. bootstrap-emacs terminates with *** stack smashing detected ***. I did not find anything appropriate on the mailing list archives, so I assume this is fairly new or triggered by something peculiar to my system. Finding pointers to doc strings... Finding pointers to doc strings...done Dumping under the name emacs 42690 pure bytes used cd ../lisp; make -w compile-first EMACS=/home/jonas/src/emacs-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jonas/src/emacs-trunk/lisp' Compiling /home/jonas/src/emacs-trunk/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el *** stack smashing detected ***: /home/jonas/src/emacs-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x50)[0x40ee4970] /lib/libc.so.6(+0xe591a)[0x40ee491a] /home/jonas/src/emacs-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x816ecfe] /home/jonas/src/emacs-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x81a5a7f] /home/jonas/src/emacs-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x81a5858] /home/jonas/src/emacs-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x81a8afa] /home/jonas/src/emacs-trunk/src/bootstrap-emacs[0x81a5af7] GDB backtrace: #0 0x0012e416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x00f1f941 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00f22e42 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x00f57305 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0x00fda970 in __fortify_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6 #5 0x00fda91a in __stack_chk_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x0816ecfe in Ffile_attributes (filename=1000, id_format=138471674) at dired.c:1039 #7 0x081a5a7f in Feval (form=140845142) at eval.c:2254 #8 0x081a5858 in Feval (form=140845134) at eval.c:2236 #9 0x081a8afa in For (args=140845270) at eval.c:243 #10 0x081a5af7 in Feval (form=140845126) at eval.c:2198 #11 0x081a8aaa in Fand (args=140845118) at eval.c:267 #12 0x081a5af7 in Feval (form=140845094) at eval.c:2198 #13 0x081a5d5d in Fprogn (args=140845366) at eval.c:343 #14 0x081a8751 in Flet (args=140845086) at eval.c:1000 #15 0x081a5af7 in Feval (form=140766166) at eval.c:2198 #16 0x081a5d5d in Fprogn (args=140765470) at eval.c:343 #17 0x081a5af7 in Feval (form=140765406) at eval.c:2198 #18 0x081a5d5d in Fprogn (args=140844990) at eval.c:343 #19 0x081a5fd9 in funcall_lambda (fun=, nargs=, arg_vector=0x60d2) at eval.c:3021 #20 0x081a5447 in apply_lambda (fun=, args=138471674, eval_flag=) at eval.c:2954 #21 0x081a572a in Feval (form=139470334) at eval.c:2314 #22 0x0813ba23 in top_level_2 () at keyboard.c:1138 #23 0x081a4f41 in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x813ba10 , handlers=138502690, hfun=0x813f0e0 ) at eval.c:1408 #24 0x0813eea5 in top_level_1 (ignore=138471674) at keyboard.c:1146 #25 0x081a5021 in internal_catch (tag=138499114, func=0x813ee40 , arg=138471674) at eval.c:1152 #26 0x0813ef13 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1101 #27 0x0813f2db in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:731 #28 0x0813f402 in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:793 #29 0x08135246 in main (argc=, argv=) at emacs.c:1684 Lisp Backtrace: "file-attributes" (0xbfffed40) "equal" (0xbfffee14) "or" (0xbfffeed4) "and" (0xbfffef94) "let" (0xbffff0c4) "if" (0xbffff184) "normal-top-level" (0xbffff230) Complete steps to build and some information about the build environment attached. /Jonas