Build emacs from sources fails on compiler

Michael K. Johnson johnsonm at redhat.com
Thu Oct 30 15:21:23 UTC 2003


setarch -3 make ...

That should work around the bug in the emacs dumper

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:49:10AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup: test3 updated to 10/28
> (athlon-tbird (1.3gh)
> 
> I remember seeing some mention of emacs problems awhile ago here.
> Trying to compile emacs from cvs sources fails with these error
> messages:
> 
>   [root at exp emacs]# ./configure
>   checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
>   checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
>   checking for gcc... gcc
>   
>   checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
>   cannot create executables
>   
>   See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> Does this ring a bell with anyone?
> 
> 
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