bug#44531: 27.1; Emacs 27 fails to build from source on m68k (regression)

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Lars!

On 9/8/21 11:48, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes:
> 
>>> m68k is big endian, isn't it? Try building with enable-checking to
>>> see whether we can see where the bit rearrangement problem might be.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll give it a try. My suspicion would be that it's an
>> alignment problem since the native alignment for m68k on Linux/sysv is
>> 16 bits, not 32 bits.
> 
> This was almost a year ago -- did you get any further in debugging this
> problem?

I think the problem was the new dumper that is used by default on emacs27 [1].

I know that I built emacs27 successfully on m68k with the option changed back,
let me try that again.

Adrian

> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2020/11/msg00009.html

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