Unable to bootstrap GNU Emacs 21.3 (segfault)

[David PONCE]

Hi All,

I just installed FC3 on my laptop and enjoy very much this
distrib. Thanks to all the people that contributed to that!

However, on that new box bootstraping GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (official) or
21.3.50.1 (devel) constantly fails with a segfault when dumping
preloaded lisp code into the bare temacs executable

Here are some (I hope) useful informations:

? uname -a
Linux maunakea 2.4.22-1.2105.nptl #1 Tue Oct 21 22:08:32 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

? rpm -qa | grep gcc
gcc-g77-3.3.1-6
gcc-java-3.3.1-6
gcc32-3.2.3-6
libgcc-3.3.1-6
gcc-c++-3.3.1-6
gcc-3.3.1-6
gcc-gnat-3.3.1-6
compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.118

? rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-common-2.3.2-98
glibc-devel-2.3.2-98
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.24
glibc-2.3.2-98
glibc-headers-2.3.2-98

And a gdb traceback I got:

(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x007f5edc in memcpy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0x0815b3d2 in unexec (new_name=0xa6493a8 "/home/ponce/installs/emacs/lisp/emacs",
    old_name=0xa6493d4 "/home/ponce/installs/emacs/lisp/temacs", data_start=137866864, bss_start=0, entry_address=0) at unexelf.c:925
#2  0x080d9492 in Fdump_emacs (filename=174516796, symfile=174516780) at emacs.c:2155
#3  0x081334ae in Feval (form=135861544) at eval.c:2078
#4  0x0813101a in Fprogn (args=-1094580120) at eval.c:408
#5  0x08130f69 in Fif (args=-1440425712) at eval.c:357
#6  0x081335ff in Feval (form=-2009624484) at eval.c:2025
#7  0x08130f48 in Fif (args=-1440424832) at eval.c:356
#8  0x081335ff in Feval (form=-2009624484) at eval.c:2025
#9  0x08146b73 in readevalloop (readcharfun=705765364, stream=0xa13e820, sourcename=1779655604, evalfun=0x8133174 <Feval>, printflag=0,
    unibyte=137870080, readfun=705652836) at lread.c:1376
#10 0x08145c54 in Fload (file=1779655604, noerror=705652836, nomessage=705652836, nosuffix=705652836, must_suffix=705652836) at lread.c:914
#11 0x081334fc in Feval (form=137863376) at eval.c:2092
#12 0x080da379 in top_level_2 () at keyboard.c:1301
#13 0x0813235e in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x80da368 <top_level_2>, handlers=705746516, hfun=0x80da070 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1333
#14 0x080da3a5 in top_level_1 () at keyboard.c:1309
#15 0x08131efd in internal_catch (tag=137870080, func=0x80da37c <top_level_1>, arg=705652836) at eval.c:1094
#16 0x080da2f7 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1270
#17 0x080d9e4c in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:987
#18 0x080d9f5c in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1043
#19 0x080d88b9 in main (argc=5, argv=0xbff00554) at emacs.c:1666


I tried gcc32 and gcc296 and got the same error.  I also tried to
build Emacs without X toolkit without success.

Does anybody succeeded to do that?  Or have an idea on what happens?

FYI, I use RH 7.1+updates at home and never encountered any problem to
build Emacs.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Sincerely,
David