GNU bug report logs - #9684
Emacs 23.3 and 24.0.90 don't build on IRIX 6.5

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rainer Orth <ro <at> CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>

Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: help, wontfix

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 9684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9684: Emacs 23.3 and 24.0.90 don't build on IRIX 6.5
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:45:59 -0700

One possibility is that it's a garbage collector bug.
You might try commenting out this line in src/s/irix6-5.h:

#define GC_MARK_STACK GC_MAKE_GCPROS_NOOPS

and building from scratch.  If this fixes the problem,
we can investigate what went wrong in stack-marking
(though that won't be fun).
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 99 days ago.

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