Re: 21.5b9 on MacOSX build problem

Martin> Adrian Aichner wrote: Martin> I do. Over 60MB of them. They are just not visible to this Martin> xemacs in its build directory. They are in /sw/lib/xemacs/ Martin> and they will be visible when xemacs is installed. I am Martin> not quite the newbie this problem makes me seem to be. I Please don't take offense when I make suggestions that seem too trivial. I am trying to help. Martin> have compiled xemacs on various systems from the times Martin> when it was called lemacs, and I am using it daily in my Martin> work. I did spend quite some time trying to debug this True believer, huh? Martin> myself before writing to the list, but I admit that it is Martin> over my head. Martin> There was also some discussion on the fink mailing lists Martin> about this problem, but no idea emerged, partly because no Martin> real xemacs experts were present, but mainly because this Martin> is something that only happens to some people and not to Martin> others, although they all use exactly the same build Martin> system with the same configure and compile options. Martin> It does. I have tried all command line option variants I Martin> can imagine. This error must be somewhere in the Martin> preloaded lisp packages or rather in their dumped Martin> form. But I am sure this error is only a symptom of Martin> something else, maybe a buffer overflow in the dump Martin> process or something. What about the compiler you use? Could it be the problem? Have you tried compiling with less or no optimization? Martin> In fact, here is a suspicion: Is it possible that the list Martin> of filenames in the dumped xemacs can get too long? I find Don't know. Martin> there more than 10000 bytes of filenames of the form Martin> /Volumes/Software/sw/src/xemacs-21.5.9-1/xemacs-21.5.9/lisp/post-gc.elc Martin> /Volumes/Software/sw/src/xemacs-21.5.9-1/xemacs-21.5.9/lisp/replace.elc Martin> /Volumes/Software/sw/src/xemacs-21.5.9-1/xemacs-21.5.9/lisp/cmdloop.elc Martin> and so on. Martin> As I have tried to explain before, if I compile with Martin> slightly different options, I get a crash at the same Martin> place, but with different error messages. Depending on the Martin> options, this can be a lisp error or a C error (bus Martin> error). When I omit the option '--error-checking=none', Martin> then the compilation terminates successfully. When I run Martin> "make" by hand from the command line, I get a different Martin> result from when I run the same make from inside the fink Martin> build script. Martin> I also compared build output logs from a successful build Martin> and an unsuccessful one. Apart from some lines that Martin> acknowledge the activated error checking, the two outputs Martin> are strictly identical up to the fatal error around line Martin> 1655 or so. Martin, please send us build reports, if possible. Do you have a fully functional XEmacs on your system? You could use my build XEmacs package to try building the new version. It will save output from various build steps and offer to send them in a build report at the end. If that's too much, please send us Installation, configure output, make output All for the build exposing the build problem. Best regards, Adrian Martin> -- Martin> Martin -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/