Subject: OSX 10.6.8: Building from master branch fails.

From: Keith David Bershatsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 08:18:47 -0700

I am unable to build Emacs from the master branch on OSX 10.6.8 with Eshell, which is what I have used for several years.  It just stops/freezes when it gets to:  "ELC org/org-timer.elc".  I am still able to successfully build earlier versions of Emacs master branch from last year -- I am unsure what specific day the builds stopped working.  I tried yesterday and today, with the same results:

~/Desktop $ git clone -b master git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
Cloning into 'emacs'...
remote: Counting objects: 793951, done.        
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (144605/144605), done.        
remote: Total 793951 (delta 649926), reused 791963 (delta 648431)        
Receiving objects: 100% (793951/793951), 239.28 MiB | 587.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (649926/649926), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Checking out files: 100% (3773/3773), done.

~/Desktop $ cd emacs

~/Desktop/emacs $ ./autogen.sh
Checking whether you have the necessary tools...
(Read INSTALL.REPO for more details on building Emacs)
Checking for autoconf (need at least version 2.65) ... ok
Your system has the required tools.
Building aclocal.m4 ...
Running 'autoreconf -fi -I m4' ...
./autogen.sh: line 274: git: command not found
./autogen.sh: line 274: git: command not found
./autogen.sh: line 274: git: command not found
./autogen.sh: line 274: git: command not found
./autogen.sh: line 274: git: command not found
./autogen.sh: line 274: git: command not found
You can now run './autogen.sh git'.

~/Desktop/emacs $ ./configure \
--with-ns \
--enable-checking='glyphs' \
--without-compress-install \
--without-makeinfo \
--with-gnutls=no
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checking for make... yes
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checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... unsupported
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checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
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checking whether the preprocessor supports include_next... yes
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Configured for 'x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0'.

  Where should the build process find the source code?    .
  What compiler should emacs be built with?               gcc -std=gnu99 -g3 -O2
  Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc?             no
    (The GNU allocators don't work with this system configuration.)
  Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers?    no
  Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation?         no
  What window system should Emacs use?                    nextstep
  What toolkit should Emacs use?                          none
  Where do we find X Windows header files?                Standard dirs
  Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   /usr/X11/lib
  Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  no
  Does Emacs use a gif library?                           no 
  Does Emacs use a png library?                           no 
  Does Emacs use -lrsvg-2?                                no
  Does Emacs use cairo?                                   no
  Does Emacs use imagemagick?                             no
  Does Emacs support sound?                               no
  Does Emacs use -lgpm?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -ldbus?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -lgconf?                                 no
  Does Emacs use GSettings?                               no
  Does Emacs use a file notification library?             yes (kqueue)
  Does Emacs use access control lists?                    yes 
  Does Emacs use -lselinux?                               no
  Does Emacs use -lgnutls?                                no
  Does Emacs use -lxml2?                                  yes
  Does Emacs use -lfreetype?                              no
  Does Emacs use -lm17n-flt?                              no
  Does Emacs use -lotf?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -lxft?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -lsystemd?                               no
  Does Emacs directly use zlib?                           yes
  Does Emacs have dynamic modules support?                no
  Does Emacs use toolkit scroll bars?                     yes
  Does Emacs support Xwidgets (requires gtk3)?            no
  Does Emacs have threading support in lisp?              yes

You must run "make install" in order to test the built application.
The installed application will go to nextstep/Emacs.app and can be
run or moved from there.
The application will be fully self-contained.

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/emacs-module.h
config.status: creating nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Info.plist
config.status: creating nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating lib/gnulib.mk
config.status: creating ./doc/man/emacs.1
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating lib-src/Makefile
config.status: creating oldXMenu/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/emacs/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/misc/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/lispintro/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/lispref/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating lwlib/Makefile
config.status: creating lisp/Makefile
config.status: creating leim/Makefile
config.status: creating nextstep/Makefile
config.status: creating nt/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating admin/charsets/Makefile
config.status: creating admin/unidata/Makefile
config.status: creating admin/grammars/Makefile
config.status: creating src/config.h
config.status: executing src/epaths.h commands
config.status: executing src/.gdbinit commands
config.status: executing doc/emacs/emacsver.texi commands
config.status: executing etc-refcards-emacsver.tex commands
configure: WARNING: This configuration installs a 'movemail' program
that retrieves POP3 email via only insecure channels.
To omit insecure POP3, you can use './configure --without-pop'.
configure: You might want to install GNU Mailutils
<http://mailutils.org> and use './configure --with-mailutils'.
~/Desktop/emacs $ make
/usr/bin/make -C lib all
  GEN      alloca.h
  GEN      byteswap.h
  GEN      dirent.h
  GEN      errno.h
  GEN      fcntl.h
  GEN      getopt.h
  GEN      getopt-cdefs.h
  GEN      inttypes.h
  GEN      limits.h
  GEN      signal.h
  GEN      stdalign.h
  GEN      stddef.h

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  ELC      org/org-macs.elc
  ELC      org/org-mhe.elc
  ELC      org/org-mobile.elc
  ELC      org/org-mouse.elc
  ELC      org/org-pcomplete.elc
  ELC      org/org-plot.elc
  ELC      org/org-protocol.elc
  ELC      org/org-rmail.elc
  ELC      org/org-src.elc
  ELC      org/org-table.elc
  ELC      org/org-timer.elc