emacs 21.2 + Irix 6.5 build fails.

emacs 21.2 + Irix 6.5 build fails.

[Lars Hesel Christensen]

I've been having problems building Emacs 21.2 on Irix 6.5. Emacs
dumps core when trying to byte-compile a certain quail elisp file. 

I haven't been able to find anything about this on the net, but
perhaps I haven't been looking thorougly enough. 

The system I'm compiling on is (uname -a):

IRIX akagi 6.5 07091542 IP32 mips

I've pasted some of the output of the incomplete build below:

Converting /var/tmp/BUILD-emacs21/emacs-21.2/leim/CXTERM-DIC/QJ.tit to quail-package...
Decoding with coding system euc-china...
Processing header part...
Formatting translation rules...
Converting /var/tmp/BUILD-emacs21/emacs-21.2/leim/CXTERM-DIC/SW.tit to quail-package...
Decoding with coding system euc-china...
Processing header part...
Formatting translation rules...
Converting /var/tmp/BUILD-emacs21/emacs-21.2/leim/CXTERM-DIC/TONEPY.tit to quail-package...
Decoding with coding system euc-china...
Processing header part...
Formatting translation rules...
Converting /var/tmp/BUILD-emacs21/emacs-21.2/leim/CXTERM-DIC/ZOZY.tit to quail-package...
Decoding with coding system cn-big5...
Processing header part...
Formatting translation rules...
Byte-compile the created files by:
  % emacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile XXX.el
gmake[1]: *** [quail/CCDOSPY.elc] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/BUILD-emacs21/emacs-21.2/leim'
gmake: *** [leim] Error 2

Any ideas and/or suggestions on how to fix this are much welcome.

Regards,
Lars Hesel

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Lars Hesel					hesel@daimi.au.dk
DAIMI System Staff				89 42 31 41

Re: emacs 21.2 + Irix 6.5 build fails.

[Richard Stallman]

This kind of problem can only be debugged on the platform where it
happens.

Based on my experience, I think the only method that stands a good
chance of working is to run it under GDB and study the causes of the
crash.  You need to be ready to really understand the code and figure
out where it does something different from what it is supposed to do.

The file etc/DEBUG may be of some help.