Subject: bug#21982: 25.1.50; Building emacs-25 branch fails

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:36:01 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> >   GEN      loaddefs.el
> > Making generated-autoload-file local to *autoload-file* while
> > let-bound!
> > *** Error in `../src/bootstrap-emacs': realloc(): invalid next size:
> > 0x00000000046edaf0 ***
> > Fatal error 6: Aborted
>
> Could be the same issue discussed here:
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-11/msg01610.html

Sounds like that, yes.

> Does the previous loaddefs.el, the one that was NOT replaced due to
> this, have any strange text in it, like null bytes?

I found none.

Would it make sense to try to bisect the first occurrence of that
issue?  Then I will try to do that.

Michael.