Re: Problem with building Emacs diagnosed. Help please!

[Chong Yidong]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

> A fresh checkout builds "OK", for the following value of "OK": After
> doing ./configure and make bootstrap, the build crashes with
> (presumably) a segmentation fault (it said "error 6", or something
> similar).  After doing "make" ~10 times, emacs was built.  At each
> attempt, it crashed with a seg fault.  I think there's a memory leak
> here, but I've said that already.

That's very strange.  I've never seen anything like this on my machine
(x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9).  Could you post your
system specs?