From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 7 7:15:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.baerum.kommune.no (mail.baerum.kommune.no [195.134.40.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA51C37B419 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 07:15:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from SA-D01-Message_Server by mail.baerum.kommune.no with Novell_GroupWise; Fri, 07 Dec 2001 16:15:22 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 16:15:20 +0100 From: "Idar Tollefsen" To: Cc: Subject: Re: XEmacs fails to find sizeof(short) on Alpha Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Idar Tollefsen writes: >> I'm running FreeBSD 4.4 STABLE on a 21164A/164LX. >> >> When trying to build xemacs21-mule by running make in >> /usr/ports/editors/xemacs21-mule, it fails during configuration. >> It fails to find sizeof(short) and then dumps core. >> >> If I try to configure it by hand, it still fails to find sizeof(short), >> but instead of coredumping, it displays a panic message and >> exits. >> =20 >> Anyone else seen this? Or more importantly, has anyone >> found a workaround for it? >rm /usr/ports/editors/xemacs21/files/patch-aj >I have no idea what the right "ports" way to really fix this is. The >problem here is that xemacs21's patch-aj is setting up a special case >for alpha which omits /usr/lib/crti.o and /usr/lib/crtn.o. >I don't pay much attention to such things. I assume these files did >not exist on the alpha at some point in the past, but the toolchain >changed sometime prior to 4.3-RELEASE so these files now exist on the >alpha. When did that change occur? Is it far enough in the past so >that it is safe to simply cvs rm that patch? Worked like a charm! :-) Thanks for the tip. - IT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message