Re: Fresh checkout: Seg fault whilst byte-compiling ../lisp/international/mule-cmds.el

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Emacs!
>
> I recently did a fresh checkout (an equally recent cvs updated system
> having failed to build), where recently means today, Thursday 2008-05-29
> ~18:00 GMT.
>
> I tried to build it with:
>
> % ./configure --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
> % make bootstrap
>
> It failed with:
>
> Compiling /home/acm/emacs/emacs.290508/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el
> Fatal error (11)make[3]: ***
> [/home/acm/emacs/emacs.290508/lisp/international/mule-cmds.elc]
> Segmentation fault
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/acm/emacs/emacs.290508/lisp'
> make[2]: *** [compile] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/acm/emacs/emacs.290508/lisp'
> make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/acm/emacs/emacs.290508'
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
>
> Is this my GNU/Linux running out of swap space?  Or is it a failure in
> Emacs?  I don't think it's good that I automatically assume an Emacs
> fault.

I just built with a fresh checkout on w32. I did not see the problem above.

> Weren't we going to install an automatic build facility which would
> check Emacs still built after commissions?  Build failures in the trunk
> seem to be an excessively high drain on productivity and morale at the
> moment.