Re: Problem with building Emacs diagnosed. Help please!

[Alan Mackenzie]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:45:29PM -0400, Chong Yidong wrote:
> 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?

Athlon 1.2 GHz, 768 Mb RAM.
Swap partition: ~2 Gb.

Kernel:           Linux acm 2.6.8 #7 Wed May 23 18:12:53 BST 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
gcc --version:    gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)

Emacs configuration:  ./configure --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).