From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13908: Unable to compile Emacs 24.3 stable Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:42:39 -0700 Message-ID: <5142282F.5050004@cs.ucla.edu> References: <5140FE12.6000705@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363290173 8767 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2013 19:42:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13908-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: James Jong Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 14 20:43:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UGE3Z-0000Tt-HF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:43:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43778 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGE3D-00040q-1J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54567) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGE39-00040g-ME for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:42:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGE38-0000dk-6R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:42:51 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:50573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UGE38-0000dg-2i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:42:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGE4I-00049J-3n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:44:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:44:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13908 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 13908-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D13908.136329024115942 (code D ref 13908); Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13908-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Mar 2013 19:44:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54682 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGE4H-00048y-84 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:49438) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UGE4E-00048l-Ru for 13908-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:43:59 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 283B5A60034; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:42:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id plhOEtbVXYVe; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:42:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CB3F0A6002C; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:42:39 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130219 Thunderbird/17.0.3 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:72506 Archived-At: On 03/14/13 08:45, James Jong wrote: > Either way, and just to confirm, I presume that if I download and build glibc and gcc in a local folder > I could eventually compile and run Emacs with a more recent version of gcc/glibc. Yes, that should work, even with your older kernel. However, building glibc is not for the faint-hearted; it's a process that requires expertise and is not that well-documented (and sorry, I don't know where even the poor documentation is -- I've never read it). You're right that the performance benefits of the newer compiler are likely to be relatively small. For now I'm marking this bug as done.