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* emacs24/25 FTBFS since a long time on GNU/Hurd
@ 2016-11-02 14:16 Svante Signell
  2016-11-02 15:23 ` Paul Eggert
  2016-11-02 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Svante Signell @ 2016-11-02 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Hello,

I'm not subscribed to emacs-devel, but hope to get this mail through anyway.

Since a long time emacs FTBFS due to unknown reasons. The latest version
building was Debian 24.5+1-5, from 27 Nov 2015. Even before successful builds
were by pure luck. One suspicious issue is that emacs use sbrk() for memory
allocation, right? Notably sbrk() is not fool-proof as implemented for Hurd in
glibc. Use of sbrk is found in files alloc.c, unexelf.c and gmalloc.c, which are
all compiled. Avoiding compilation of ralloc.c with 0001-Default-REL_ALLOC-to-
no.patch did not improve the situation.

First time I compiled emacs 25.1 from upstream it passed, second time not.
Compiling Debian versions almost always fail. Moslty the build fails with temacs
failing to execute: Killed. In my opionion it's a real loss not to gave a modern
version of emacs25 available for use in GNU/Hurd (not everybody use vi).

Do anybody of you have an idea on how to solve this problem? Are there patches
available already to try with?

Thanks in advance :)



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2016-11-02 14:16 emacs24/25 FTBFS since a long time on GNU/Hurd Svante Signell
2016-11-02 15:23 ` Paul Eggert
2016-11-02 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-02 15:51   ` Svante Signell
2016-12-02 10:35     ` Svante Signell
2016-12-03  0:02       ` bug#24857: " Paul Eggert
2016-12-07 22:40         ` Svante Signell
2016-12-08  1:15           ` Daniel Colascione

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