build problem on alpha.

[Matt Hodges]

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (alphaev6-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll 
bars)
 of 2004-01-21 on tcdec3
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

I run into a problem when building Emacs from CVS on alpha, using:

    $ cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs
    $ cd emacs/
    $ ./configure 
    $ make bootstrap

which fails when compiling byte-opt.el:

    Compiling /scratch/matt/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/byte-opt.el
    Fatal error (11)make[1]: *** [compile] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/matt/emacs/lisp'
    make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2

A backtrace looks like:

    #0  0x0000000120180728 in print_preprocess (obj=7361168953288516976) at 
print.c:1335
    #1  0x0000000120180780 in print_preprocess (obj=4845724376) at print.c:1349
    #2  0x0000000120180780 in print_preprocess (obj=4846358512) at print.c:1349
    #3  0x0000000120180398 in print (obj=-9223372032008417344, 
printcharfun=2305843014050215056, escapeflag=1) at print.c:1241
    #4  0x000000012017dfc4 in Fprin1 (object=-9223372032008417344, 
printcharfun=2305843014050215056) at print.c:740
    #5  0x0000000120165e6c in Feval (form=-9223372032018801728) at eval.c:2083
    #6  0x0000000120161d70 in Fprogn (args=7361168953288516976) at eval.c:408

    [...]

    #184 0x00000001200d9780 in top_level_2 () at keyboard.c:1303
    #185 0x000000012016420c in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x1200d9760 
<top_level_2>, handlers=2305843014050390832, hfun=0x1200d9210 <cmd_error>) at 
eval.c:1333
    #186 0x00000001200d97e4 in top_level_1 () at keyboard.c:1311
    #187 0x0000000120163a68 in internal_catch (tag=7361168953288516976, 
func=0x1200d97a0 <top_level_1>, arg=2305843014050215056) at eval.c:1094
    #188 0x00000001200d9694 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1272
    #189 0x00000001200d8db8 in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:989
    #190 0x00000001200d8fd4 in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1045
    #191 0x00000001200d6460 in main (argc=7, argv=0x11ffffb18) at emacs.c:1666

If I revert print.c from revision 1.197 to revision 1.196, the build
procedure finishes without errors.

-- 
Dr. Matt Hodges
School of Chemistry
University of Birmingham