Fresh checkout: Seg fault whilst byte-compiling ../lisp/international/mule-cmds.el

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Emacs!

I recently did a fresh checkout (an equally recent cvs updated system
having failed to build), where recently means today, Thursday 2008-05-29
~18:00 GMT.

I tried to build it with:

% ./configure --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
% make bootstrap

It failed with:

Compiling /home/acm/emacs/emacs.290508/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el
Fatal error (11)make[3]: ***
[/home/acm/emacs/emacs.290508/lisp/international/mule-cmds.elc]
Segmentation fault
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/acm/emacs/emacs.290508/lisp'
make[2]: *** [compile] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/acm/emacs/emacs.290508/lisp'
make[1]: *** [bootstrap-build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/acm/emacs/emacs.290508'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2

Is this my GNU/Linux running out of swap space?  Or is it a failure in
Emacs?  I don't think it's good that I automatically assume an Emacs
fault.

Weren't we going to install an automatic build facility which would
check Emacs still built after commissions?  Build failures in the trunk
seem to be an excessively high drain on productivity and morale at the
moment.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany)