When emerging app-editors/xemacs-21.4.12 the build fails with the following error: *** gcc -mcpu=ev67 -O3 -pipe -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-export-dynamic -o xemacs 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 dumper.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 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 dump-id.o ../lwlib/liblw.a -lXm -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lXpm -lXmu -lXt -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lgdbm -lgpm -lncurses -lm -lutil ./xemacs -nd -batch -l /var/tmp/portage/xemacs-21.4.12/work/xemacs-21.4.12/src/../lisp/update-elc.el Error before initialization is complete! Fatal error: assertion failed, file eval.c, line 1880, abort() make[1]: *** [update-elc.stamp] Aborted make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xemacs-21.4.12/work/xemacs-21.4.12/src' make: *** [src] Error 2 !!! ERROR: app-editors/xemacs-21.4.12 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 165, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) ***
Note this works on x86 (just tested), so I'm assuming it's an alpha-only problem.
Confirmed, note this mailing list post http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200303/msg00007.html use alpha && myconf="${myconf} --with-system-malloc" fixes it for me, if someone else can verify i'll commit it.
I was able to build XEmacs-21.4.12 from a tarball using the system-malloc yesterday. I just patched up my ebuild for the package and I am emerging it as I type this, I'll update this when it is finished. Quick little bugger - it just finished, looks okay. It sounds like this is really a problem with glibc, should this bug be transfered to the glibc folk?
Comitted, Thanks.
Perhaps I spoke to soon, xemacs is crashing quite a bit at various places. I am beginning to wonder about possibly downgrading my version of glibc to a 2.2.x - any reason why I shouldn't?
You cant downgrade glibc, it _will_ break your system. I cant reproduce any crashes, although i dont know emacs very well, is there a way to reproduce a crash? (i've compiled my copy with ccc, i dont think would effect it though)
Yeah, I guess I thought the /sbin and /bin paths were all statically linked - you can imagine my surprise when I was installing the older version of glibc and '/bin/rm' failed ... on the plus side at least ldconfig is statically linked ;) As far as compilers go I have compiled everything on my system with gcc since it was there, right now I am just trying to get this machine to a useable state. I may go back later and recompile key packages with ccc for performance reasons. However, at this point I have already spent more time on getting this box up then I had planned. Thanks for your help and all of the alpha team's hard work in making gentoo happen on Alpha.
