Subject: bug#44069: BUg building from the emacs repo on https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=emacs

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 16:13:58 -0700

George R Goffe via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> I just downloaded the source for emacs from the above site and
> received this error message from gcc.
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

How did you download and try to build Emacs?  Please include the exact
commands you used.

> make[1]: Entering directory '/export/home/tools/emacs/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/src'
>   CC       fns.o
> fns.c: In function ‘merge_vectors’:
> fns.c:2009:1: error: wrong number of arguments specified for ‘access’ attribute
>  2009 | {
>       | ^
> fns.c:2009:1: note: expected between 1 and 3, found 4
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:401: fns.o] Error 1
>   CC       print.o