bug#17598: Emacs pretest 24.3.91 - AIX - SIGSEV when customize

[Gilles PION]

> >> >Which GCC compiler are you using?  I am using 4.8.1,
and it works for
> >> >me; see attached files.
> > 4.8.2, boostratpped on a AIX 6.1 Host
> 
> I'm afraid that does not work.  If you are using GCC on AIX 7.1,
your 
> GCC must be built on AIX 7.1.  A GCC bootstrapped on AIX 6.1
will run on 
> AIX 7.1 but will generate incorrect code sometimes.  That appears
to be 
> what's happening in your case, as the truss output contains lines
like this:
> 
> 18809032: 42074209: 0.2175:        faccessat(-3041965,
> "<<HOMEDIR>>/src/emacs/emacs-gcc-crashtest/emacs-24.3.91/src/lib-src",
> 0, 4) Err#22 EINVAL
> 
> which means Emacs thinks AT_FDCWD equals -3041965, but this is wrong
for 
> AIX 7.1: /usr/include/fcntl.h #defines AT_FDCWD to be -2.  Apparently
> your GCC is incorrectly using fixincluded files from AIX 6.1 (which
do 
> not define AT_FDCWD) and Emacs is therefore incorrectly falling back
on 
> gnulib's definition of AT_FDCWD.
> 
> Bad fixincluded files would explain a lot of problems, including the
> subshell problem you reported earlier, as well as the Xpm problems.


I should be now able to bootstrap a new instance of
GCC for aix7.1 since my colleague which administrate this machine have
found some time to reinstall from scratch a working version of AIX xlc
compiler.
Will try this next week.

> Possibly we were too hasty in suppressing Emacs's use of Xpm on AIX?

Maybe. 
I'll also try do make a test build adding "-with-xpm"
to "configure" when the new version of the GCC compiler will
be set up, and keep you informed of the results.

Regards, and have a nice week-end,
--
Gilles




                                                                   
                                                                   
                                           
                                                                   
                                                                   
                  



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