bug#74744: Build failure: SEGV in temacs (with "Pure Lisp storage overflowed")

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 74744 + pending
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 16:23:56 +0100
>> Cc: 74744@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Eric Marsden <eric.marsden@risk-engineering.org>
>>
>> On 09/12/2024 16:03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > And if you enlarge PURESIZE, does the segfault go away?
>> >
>> > Also, please try without --enable-link-time-optimization and without
>> > the -flto=8 -ffat-lto-objects compiler options.
>>
>> Thanks, inspired by Pip's suggestion I used
>>
>>    ./configure --with-options
>>    make FAST=true bootstrap
>>
>> which worked, so I have not investigated further. I was not anticipating
>> that the default make recipe might fail due to pre-existing object files.
>
> Yes, pure space can overflow if loadup loads byte-compiled files.
> This is a known subtlety that sometimes pops up.

Given that we are planning to remove pure space, maybe this bug should
be closed.  I'm tagging it as pending for now.