A "emerge xemacs" on my iBook failed with the following message: gcc -O2 -pipe -mcpu=750 -T /var/tmp/portage/xemacs-21.4.9/work/xemacs-21.4.9/src/ppc.ldscript -Wl,-z,nocombreloc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-export-dynamic -o temacs abbrev.o alloc.o blocktype.o buffer.o bytecode.o callint.o callproc.o casefiddle.o casetab.o chartab.o cmdloop.o cmds.o console.o console-stream.o data.o device.o dired.o doc.o doprnt.o dynarr.o editfns.o elhash.o emacs.o eval.o events.o filelock.o unexelf.o balloon_help.o balloon-x.o menubar.o scrollbar.o dialog.o toolbar.o menubar-x.o scrollbar-x.o dialog-x.o toolbar-x.o gui-x.o realpath.o inline.o linuxplay.o esd.o miscplay.o console-tty.o device-tty.o event-tty.o frame-tty.o objects-tty.o redisplay-tty.o cm.o terminfo.o gpmevent.o event-unixoid.o database.o sysdll.o emodules.o process-unix.o event-stream.o extents.o faces.o fileio.o filemode.o floatfns.o fns.o font-lock.o frame.o general.o glyphs.o glyphs-eimage.o glyphs-widget.o gui.o gutter.o hash.o imgproc.o indent.o insdel.o intl.o keymap.o line-number.o lread.o lstream.o macros.o marker.o md5.o minibuf.o objects.o opaque.o print.o process.o profile.o rangetab.o redisplay.o redisplay-output.o regex.o search.o select.o signal.o sound.o specifier.o strftime.o symbols.o syntax.o sysdep.o undo.o console-x.o device-x.o event-Xt.o frame-x.o glyphs-x.o objects-x.o redisplay-x.o select-x.o xgccache.o widget.o window.o lastfile.o vm-limit.o EmacsFrame.o EmacsShell.o TopLevelEmacsShell.o TransientEmacsShell.o EmacsManager.o ../lwlib/liblw.a -lXm -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lXpm -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lgdbm -lgpm -lncurses -L/usr/lib -lesd -laudiofile -lm -lm -lutil -lgcc -lc -lgcc /usr/lib/crtn.o `gcc -print-libgcc-file-name` /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS)(.text+0x1e): In function `__libc_csu_init': : undefined reference to `__init_array_start' /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS)(.text+0x26): In function `__libc_csu_init': : undefined reference to `__init_array_start' /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS)(.text+0x2a): In function `__libc_csu_init': : undefined reference to `__init_array_end' /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS)(.text+0x2e): In function `__libc_csu_init': : undefined reference to `__init_array_end' /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS)(.text+0x82): In function `__libc_csu_fini': : undefined reference to `__fini_array_start' /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS)(.text+0x86): In function `__libc_csu_fini': : undefined reference to `__fini_array_end' /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS)(.text+0x8e): In function `__libc_csu_fini': : undefined reference to `__fini_array_start' /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(elf-init.oS)(.text+0x92): In function `__libc_csu_fini': : undefined reference to `__fini_array_end' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [temacs] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xemacs-21.4.9/work/xemacs-21.4.9/src' make: *** [src] Error 2 Applying the following patch gets the ebuild to work: --- configure.orig 2003-10-21 21:42:18.000000000 -0700 +++ configure 2003-10-21 21:42:35.000000000 -0700 @@ -2966,8 +2966,6 @@ fi -test "$machine$opsys" = "powerpclinux" && start_flags="-T$srcdir/src/ppc.ldscript" - if test "$unexec" = "unexaix.o"; then if test "$dynamic" = "no"; then start_flags="-Wl,-bnso,-bnodelcsect" Looking through the Changes file in the xemacs distribution, it seems that ppc.ldscript was added in 1998 to work around a PPC Linux build problem. It seems that in the last 5 years, this fix is not necessary in order to build xemacs. This patch can be appended to xemacs-21.4.9-ppc.diff This patch was tested against app-editors/xemacs-21.4.11, and it built at runs successfully. I believe that xemacs-21.4.11 can be unmasked for PPC as well. Finally, perhaps there is a more elegant solution to copying and renaming xemacs-21.4.8-ppc.diff everytime a new PPC ebuild of xemacs comes along. It causes problems when someone from x86 land puts out new xemacs ebuilds. The ebuild has this snippet in it: if [ ${ARCH} = "ppc" ] ; then epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-ppc.diff || die Perhaps this should be tweaked to: if [ ${ARCH} = "ppc" ] ; then epatch ${FILESDIR}/xemacs-21.4.8-ppc.diff || die and when a new patch is necessary (as suggested above), it gets incremented: if [ ${ARCH} = "ppc" ] ; then epatch ${FILESDIR}/xemacs-21.4.11-ppc.diff || die This would reduce the maintenance needed by PPC Gentoo devs for this package. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xemacs 2. fails with above message
xemacs .15 fixes this problem
