Subject: Re: bug#13997: building emacs 24.3 failed with seg fault during ./temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:26:01 -0400

Petr Hracek wrote:

> I have found that when configure script is used without
> --with-wide-int option that compilation works correctly.
>
> For what is used for --with-wide-int?

No offence meant, but why are you adding configure options if you don't
know what they do?

> Does have any affect on emacs?

>From etc/NEWS:

  ** New configure option --with-wide-int.
  With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
  On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512
  MiB to about 2 GiB.

So you can ignore this unless you are using a 32-bit platform and
really, really, need to edit buffers larger than 512MB.