bug#74744: Build failure: SEGV in temacs (with "Pure Lisp storage overflowed")

[Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> tags 74744 + pending
> thanks
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 16:23:56 +0100
>>> Cc: 74744@debbugs.gnu.org
>>> From: Eric Marsden <eric.marsden@risk-engineering.org>
>>>
>>> On 09/12/2024 16:03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> > And if you enlarge PURESIZE, does the segfault go away?
>>> >
>>> > Also, please try without --enable-link-time-optimization and without
>>> > the -flto=8 -ffat-lto-objects compiler options.
>>>
>>> Thanks, inspired by Pip's suggestion I used
>>>
>>>    ./configure --with-options
>>>    make FAST=true bootstrap
>>>
>>> which worked, so I have not investigated further. I was not anticipating
>>> that the default make recipe might fail due to pre-existing object files.
>>
>> Yes, pure space can overflow if loadup loads byte-compiled files.
>> This is a known subtlety that sometimes pops up.
>
> Given that we are planning to remove pure space, maybe this bug should
> be closed.  I'm tagging it as pending for now.

I'm closing this bug report now.