Subject: Re: bug#24857: emacs24/25 FTBFS since a long time on GNU/Hurd

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 12:06:59 +0200

> From: Svante Signell <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:50:16 +0100
> 
> I did build from today's git. After setting libsystemd to off
> OPTION_DEFAULT_OFF([libsystemd],[don't compile with libsystemd support])
> the build was successful: all three built executables: temacs, bootstrap-emacs,
> emacs works fine.
> 
> Forcing usage of SYSTEM_MALLOC fails with bootstrap-emacs:

So you are saying that turning off libsystemd and NOT forcing
SYSTEM_MALLOC allows you to build Emacs successfully?

Also, do you understand how does libsystemd affect this?

> > Instead, try building an official 25.1 release tarball, then invoke
> > temacs built there, and see if it works.
> 
> Will try the release 25.1 tarball next: Last time I built from an upstream
> tarball it did succeed the first time and failed the second.

"The second time" here meaning what? that you modified some file and
ran "make" again?  Or does it mean something else?

Thanks.