Re: trunk build fails on Debian unstable

[Stefan Monnier]

Just a reminder that I encourage everyone who doesn't actively hack on
Emacs's own code to track the `emacs-24' branch rather than `trunk', to
help us debug the code for Emacs-24.4.


        Stefan


>>>>> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>         I noticesd today that emacs build is failing (possibly due to
>  gcc updates in Debian).

> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src'
> gcc -std=gnu99     -I. -I../src -I../lib -I. -I./../src -I./../lib    -g3 -O2 
> -flto=4 -DEMACS_NAME="\"GNU Emacs\"" -DVERSION="\"24.4.50\"" -o etags 
> ./etags.c regex.o ../lib/libgnu.a  
> /tmp/ccZAzltL.ltrans1.ltrans.o: In function `get_language_from_filename':
> /usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/./etags.c:1434: undefined reference to 
> `c_strcasecmp'
> /usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/./etags.c:1447: undefined reference to 
> `c_strcasecmp'
> /tmp/ccZAzltL.ltrans4.ltrans.o: In function `HTML_labels.lto_priv.77':
> /usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/./etags.c:5136: undefined reference to 
> `c_strncasecmp'
> /usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/./etags.c:5193: undefined reference to 
> `c_strncasecmp'
> /usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/./etags.c:5137: undefined reference to 
> `c_strncasecmp'
> /usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/./etags.c:5194: undefined reference to 
> `c_strncasecmp'
> /usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/./etags.c:5195: undefined reference to 
> `c_strncasecmp'
> /tmp/ccZAzltL.ltrans4.ltrans.o:/usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src/./etags.c:5195: 
> more undefined references to `c_strncasecmp' follow
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> Makefile:322: recipe for target 'etags' failed
> make[1]: *** [etags] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/emacs/lib-src'
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

>         I think this is an issue witht he build toolchain, since the
>  emacs change seems tob e a couple of years old:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>  commit 73880ca7bb5e0e228ddf834bab479bfd8549b404
> Author: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date:   Fri Jul 6 14:07:46 2012 -0700

>     Use c_strcasecmp for ASCII case-insensitive comparison.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

>         I'll dig into this this week, but I thought I would let people
>  know (and perhaps this is just a local issue, in which case I apologize
>  for the noise).

>         manoj
> -- 
> Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. Plotinus
> Manoj Srivastava <address@hidden> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>  
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