From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: conover@panix.com (John Conover)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regression compile of emacs-27.1.tar.gz
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:53:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edc4woxu.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240320200210.216522.qmail@panix.com> (John Conover's message of "Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:02:10 -0700")
On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:02:10 -0700 conover@panix.com (John Conover) wrote:
> I need to compile emacs-27.1.tar.xz, (the standard for Debian 11,
> Bullseye,) on Debian 12, Bookworm, and prefer to compile the gnu
> sources:
>
> Source: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.xz:
>
> Compiler error:
>
> sysdep.c:1819:22: error: variably modified ‘sigsegv_stack’ at file scope
> 1819 | static unsigned char sigsegv_stack[SIGSTKSZ];
>
> Can this sigsegv_stack statement in sysdep.c be replaced with the same
> statement from emacs-29.x.tar.xz, (which is quite different, but
> compiles.)
Yes, the change was made because SIGSTKSZ was removed from glibc 2.34,
see
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=f97e07ea807cc6d38774a3888a15091b20645ac6
> Any consequences for that single change?
Besides being able to compile Emacs under glib 2.34 and later, none that
I'm aware of.
> Thanks,
>
> John
Steve Berman
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