GNU bug report logs - #18608
24.3.94; IRIX 6.5 build fails; "emacs: Invalid function: make-local-variable"

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Emacs bug reports and feature requests <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.3.94; IRIX 6.5 build fails;
 "emacs: Invalid function: make-local-variable"
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 06:23:49 -0700

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GNU Emacs 24.3.94 successfully builds under Solaris 10 (sparc) and AIX 7.1 
(POWER) but does not build under IRIX 6.5 (MIPS) with GCC 3.4.6.  The build log 
is attached.

We were planning to drop support for IRIX in GNU Emacs 25 anyway, as SGI itself 
dropped support for IRIX last year, so perhaps the simplest fix would be to add 
a NEWS item that IRIX is no longer supported.

Here's what 'report-emacs-bug' says when I run temacs:

In GNU Emacs 24.3.94 (mips-sgi-irix6.5, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2014-10-02 on eilat.math.utah.edu
Configured using:
 `configure --with-png=no'

Important settings:
  locale-coding-system: nil

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
ESC [ > 1 ; 3 4 0 9 ; 0 c ESC x r e p o r t - e m a
c s - b u g RET

Recent messages:
Loading vc/vc-hooks...done
Loading vc/ediff-hook...done
Loading uniquify...done
Loading electric...done
Loading tooltip...done
Loading leim/leim-list.el (source)...done
Finding pointers to doc strings...done
Pure-hashed: 23666 strings, 3452 vectors, 37059 conses, 3244 bytecodes, 82 others
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Loading loadup.el (source)...done

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml
easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231
mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils xterm time-date tooltip electric
uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar
dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode
prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar
mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian
utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean
japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev
minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process
dynamic-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 8 74681 6253)
 (symbols 24 17475 0)
 (miscs 20 70 121)
 (strings 16 8941 5045)
 (string-bytes 1 252394)
 (vectors 8 11588)
 (vector-slots 4 912391 35362)
 (floats 8 63 219)
 (intervals 28 149 238)
 (buffers 512 12))

[irix-6.5.txt (text/plain, attachment)]

Message #8 received at 18608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 18608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18608: 24.3.94; IRIX 6.5 build fails;
 "emacs: Invalid function: make-local-variable"
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:55:57 -0400

Paul Eggert wrote:

> GNU Emacs 24.3.94 successfully builds under Solaris 10 (sparc) and AIX
> 7.1 (POWER) but does not build under IRIX 6.5 (MIPS) with GCC 3.4.6.

Did previous pretests (or 24.3) work?
(Is it necessary to use that old gcc?)

> SGI itself dropped support for IRIX last year, so perhaps the simplest
> fix would be to add a NEWS item that IRIX is no longer supported.

I don't think there's any "perhaps" about that being the simplest thing. :)

Message #11 received at 18608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18608: 24.3.94; IRIX 6.5 build fails;
 "emacs: Invalid function: make-local-variable"
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:54:05 -0700

On 10/02/2014 08:55 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Did previous pretests (or 24.3) work?
> (Is it necessary to use that old gcc?)
>

Sorry for the false alarm; I now recall the situation better.  The IRIX 
port does not work with GCC; see bug#9684.  Emacs 24.3 does not work 
with IRIX cc but Emacs 24.4 should work (at least, a snapshot did work 
back in April).  I will redo the build with IRIX cc when I get the 
chance.  Unfortunately my access to this old IRIX machine is 
intermittent and I cannot login right now.

Message #16 received at 18608-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 18608-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18608: 24.3.94; IRIX 6.5 build fails;
 "emacs: Invalid function: make-local-variable"
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:37:32 -0700

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I will redo the build with IRIX cc when I get the chance.

I've been able to do this and can confirm that it does work with IRIX cc.  Sorry 
about the false alarm.  I'm closing this bug report.

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