Subject: Re: bug#73415: 30.0.91; Emacs 30 build fails on Ubuntu 24.04

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:51:43 +0300

> From: Mark Grosen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:53:23 -0700
> Cc: Andrea Corallo <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> > Thanks, but 400KB of pure space is too much to just increase the size
> > without understanding why this is needed.  Did you really need 400KB,
> > or would a smaller number do?  If the latter, what is the smallest
> > addition that avoids the overflow in your case?
> 
> 290000 is the smallest that works, with or without --with-pgtk
> 
> >  . what was the absolute file name of the top-level directory where
> >    you unpacked the pretest tarball (assuming that this happens with
> >    building the pretest, not a Git checkout)?
> 
> This is built from git checkout of emacs-30 or emacs-30.0.91 in
> /home/mark/Stuff/emacs
> 
> I did some more experiments and found that my original build commands
> fail but the first suggested one
> in INSTALL.repo works.
> 
> > . what were the commands you used to build?
> 
> Fails:
> git clean -fdx
> make bootstrap -j12
> ./configure --with-webp
> make -j12
> 
> Works:
> git clean -fdx
> make -j12 configure="--with-webp"
> 
> However, the first way does work if there are no 'configure' options.
> Any option to configure causes a failure.

Thanks, in that case I think this is a known issue, and we decided not
to fix it on the emacs-30 release branch because building the pretest
tarball (which doesn't require to go via bootstrap) works with the
original pure-size.

Andrea, what did we decide regarding the long-term solution for this?
Did we mean to somehow solve the issue with dynamic doc strings?