bug#44531: 27.1; Emacs 27 fails to build from source on m68k (regression)

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello!

On 7/2/22 21:28, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > dumping fingerprint: 
> > 7b5c59c589dc151eb1e4269bd83fbe809616b5cb9bb5c80014d5b560b391dfb6
> > dump relocation out of range
>
> This error message basically says that the relation is not a multiple of
> the minimum expected alignment.  So it seems to be a direct consequence
> of the 16bit alignment used on m68k combined with the following from
> pdumper.el:
>
>     [...]
>     DUMP_RELOC_ALIGNMENT_BITS = 2,
>
>     /* Minimum alignment required by dump file format.  */
>     DUMP_RELOCATION_ALIGNMENT = 1 << DUMP_RELOC_ALIGNMENT_BITS,
>     [...]
>
> I can't see anything in the code which explains what this alignment
> requirement is about.  You can try lowering DUMP_RELOC_ALIGNMENT_BITS
> to 1 and see if that works (long shot).
> Daniel?

I just gave lowering DUMP_RELOC_ALIGNMENT_BITS to 1 and it fixes the problem
for me. Maybe DUMP_RELOC_ALIGNMENT_BITS could be set depending on the native
alignment of the host machine?

Adrian

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