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When attempting to compile emacs versions 21.3.50 or 22.0.50 under FC4, the process fails with the below messages:
Dumping under names emacs and emacs-21.3.50 ************************************************** Warning: Your system has a gap between BSS and the heap (19112100 byte). This usually means that exec-shield or something similar is in effect. The dump may fail because of this. See the section about exec-shield in etc/PROBLEMS for more information. ************************************************** make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Segmentation fault make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fc4user/downloads/emacs/emacs/src' make: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
Here's what I tried and what happened
1. I was attempting to compile either emacs 22.0.50 from CVS download or emacs 21.3.50 from source file "emacs-21.3.50-20041117.tar.gz" (available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17203&package_id=35022&release_id=78364)
2. I issued "setarch i386 ./configure". This worked without error messages.
3. I then issued "setarch i386 make bootstrap". This failed with the following messages
<snip> Loading menu-bar (source)... Loading paths.el (source)... Loading startup (source)... Loading emacs-lisp/lisp (source)... Loading textmodes/page (source)... Loading register (source)... Loading textmodes/paragraphs (source)... Loading emacs-lisp/lisp-mode (source)... Loading textmodes/text-mode (source)... Loading textmodes/fill (source)... ((215107 . 8234) (11326 . 3) (584 . 196) 1542561 223532 (66 . 7) (18 . 43) (23593 . 599)) Loading replace (source)... Loading abbrev (source)... Loading buff-menu (source)... Loading emacs-lisp/float-sup (source)... ((222553 . 3029) (11533 . 2) (585 . 195) 1575995 223956 (72 . 4) (18 . 43) (24103 . 215)) Loading vc-hooks (source)... Loading ediff-hook (source)... ((225572 . 2596) (11635 . 0) (586 . 194) 1584303 223973 (72 . 4) (18 . 43) (24359 . 337)) Finding pointers to doc strings... Finding pointers to doc strings...done Dumping under names emacs and emacs-21.3.50 ************************************************** Warning: Your system has a gap between BSS and the heap (19112100 byte). This usually means that exec-shield or something similar is in effect. The dump may fail because of this. See the section about exec-shield in etc/PROBLEMS for more information. ************************************************** make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Segmentation fault make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fc4user/downloads/emacs/emacs/src' make: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
I also tried several other things, like issuing " echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield' " to turn off exec-shield completely before compiling. This didn't work also.
Both of these versions of Emacs compiled under FC3, using the above process.
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