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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 18:57:08 +0200

> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 17:33:20 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> > Now even older versions FTBFS, like the one that built earlier: 2.24-5. It might
> > have to do with libc versions:
> > emacs 2.24-5 was successfully built with glibc 2.19
> > emacs 2.24-6 was FTBFS with glibc 2.22
> > Now we are at glibc 2.24.
> > 
> > All older versions I've tried gets Killed when dumping temacs.
> > e.g. emacs24.5-5:
> > /bin/bash: line 7: 29388 Killed                  ./temacs --batch --load loadup
> > bootstrap
> 
> That's what I thought.
> 
> Can you compare src/config.h from the old builds and the current ones?
> 
> Any idea what change(s) in glibc caused this?

Ping!  Any news on this?

Emacs 25.2 will begin pretest soon, and it would be nice to at least
know the situation on Hurd with it, if not have a solution.

TIA