bug#1591: Failed to compile emacs from CVS with the new glibc-2.9-3.i686

bug#1591: Failed to compile emacs from CVS with the new glibc-2.9-3.i686

[Håvard Rue]

My build of emacs23 wouldn't start (segfault)  the other day, and I
tried to compile it again from the source. It fail to compile 

`/bin/pwd`/temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap
make[3]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Segmentation fault (core dumped)

And if I run it in the debugger, I get

localhost[src]$ gdb ./temacs
GNU gdb Fedora (6.8-29.fc10)
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show
copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
SIGINT is used by the debugger.
Are you sure you want to change it? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from
terminal]
DISPLAY = :0.0
TERM = xterm
Breakpoint 1 at 0x813ced9: file sysdep.c, line 1135.
(gdb) run --batch --load loadup bootstrap
Starting program: /home/hrue/sw/emacs/src/temacs --batch --load loadup
bootstrap
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x40108280 (LWP 7072)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x005081eb in _dl_init_internal () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2

Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install
alsa-lib-1.0.18-6.rc3.fc10.i386 atk-1.24.0-1.fc10.i386
bzip2-libs-1.0.5-3.fc10.i386 cairo-1.8.0-1.fc10.i386
dbus-libs-1.2.8-1.fc10.i386 e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-2.fc10.i386
expat-2.0.1-5.i386 fontconfig-2.6.0-3.fc10.i386
freetype-freeworld-2.3.7-2.fc10.i386 giflib-4.1.3-9.i386
glib2-2.18.3-2.fc10.i386 glibc-2.9-3.i686 gtk2-2.14.4-3.fc10.i386
libICE-1.0.4-4.fc10.i386 libSM-1.1.0-2.fc10.i386
libX11-1.1.4-6.fc10.i386 libXau-1.0.4-1.fc10.i386
libXcomposite-0.4.0-5.fc10.i386 libXcursor-1.1.9-3.fc10.i386
libXdamage-1.1.1-4.fc9.i386 libXdmcp-1.0.2-6.fc10.i386
libXext-1.0.4-1.fc9.i386 libXfixes-4.0.3-4.fc10.i386
libXft-2.1.13-1.fc10.i386 libXi-1.1.3-4.fc9.i386
libXinerama-1.0.3-2.fc10.i386 libXpm-3.5.7-4.fc9.i386
libXrandr-1.2.3-1.fc10.i386 libXrender-0.9.4-3.fc9.i386
libcap-2.10-2.fc10.i386 libcroco-0.6.1-5.fc9.i386
libgsf-1.14.10-1.fc10.i386 libjpeg-6b-43.fc10.i386
libpng-1.2.33-1.fc10.i386 librsvg2-2.22.3-1.fc10.i386
libselinux-2.0.73-1.fc10.i386 libtiff-3.8.2-11.fc10.i386
libxcb-1.1.91-5.fc10.i386 libxml2-2.7.2-2.fc10.i386
ncurses-libs-5.6-20.20080927.fc10.i386 pango-1.22.3-1.fc10.i386
pixman-0.12.0-2.fc10.i386 zlib-1.2.3-18.fc9.i386


seems like a new glibc has just recently been installed

localhost[~]$ rpm -qf /lib/ld-2.9.so 
glibc-2.9-3.i686


I'm running Fedora 10. 

Bests,
Håvard



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bug#1591: Failed to compile emacs from CVS with the new glibc-2.9-3.i686

[Glenn Morris]

There's no useful information in the backtrace, so we cannot do aything.
FWIW, I have no problems building emacs with glibc 2.12 or 2.13.
Hopefully it was just a transient glitch on your system.
Please open a new report if you still have problems.