Subject: bug#44531: 27.1; Emacs 27 fails to build from source on m68k (regression)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 09:47:54 +0200

> From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:30:34 +0100
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Starting with version 27, Emacs has started failing to build from source
> on m68k (Linux) with the following error message:
> 
> /bin/mkdir -p ../etc
> /usr/bin/make -C ../lisp update-subdirs
> make[4]: Entering directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-gtk/lisp'
> make[4]: Leaving directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-gtk/lisp'
> cp -f temacs bootstrap-emacs
> rm -f bootstrap-emacs.pdmp
> ./temacs --batch  -l loadup --temacs=pbootstrap
> Loading loadup.el (source)...
> dump mode: pbootstrap
> Using load-path (/<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/emacs-lisp /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/progmodes /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/language /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/international /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/textmodes /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/vc)
> Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run (source)...
> Loading emacs-lisp/backquote (source)...
> Loading subr (source)...
> Loading version (source)...
> (...)
> Loading /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el (source)...
> Loading /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/vc/ediff-hook.el (source)...
> Loading /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/uniquify.el (source)...
> Loading /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/electric.el (source)...
> Loading /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el (source)...
> Loading /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/cus-start.el (source)...
> Loading /<<BUILDDIR>>/emacs-27.1+1/debian/build-src/lisp/tooltip.el (source)...
> Finding pointers to doc strings...
> Finding pointers to doc strings...done
> Dumping under the name bootstrap-emacs.pdmp
> dumping fingerprint: 7b5c59c589dc151eb1e4269bd83fbe809616b5cb9bb5c80014d5b560b391dfb6
> dump relocation out of range
> 
> Full build log available in [1].
> 
> I have not been able to figure out what "dump relocation out of range"
> actually means, so any explanation is much appreciated.

Daniel, any advice for how to go about this problem?