GNU bug report logs - #36356
27.0.50; linking error in git head on macos: _freea in libgnu

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: sds <at> gnu.org

Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 36356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: sds <at> gnu.org
Cc: 36356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>,
 bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: macosx linking fails: _freea referenced from: _rpl_realpath
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:31:06 +0200

Sam Steingold wrote:
> I re-run gnulib-tool and it fixed it.
> (alas, emacs maintainers pushed the changes before me ;-)

So, what was the cause? What can be done to avoid similar errors in the future?

When I look at the history of emacs/lib/gnulib.mk.in, it looks like
(1) there was a change that added dependencies to canonicalize-lgpl and malloca
    yesterday, but it did NOT add the variable gl_GNULIB_ENABLED_malloca.
(2) Paul regenerated it again, which added the variable gl_GNULIB_ENABLED_malloca.

(1) apparently introduced the problem that Sam reported. (2) fixed it.

Daniel, do you have an idea why your tooling created an incomplete
emacs/lib/gnulib.mk.in, that you then checked in?

Bruno
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