Re: Strange errors regarding function '__alloca' on a Debian buster/sid i686 system

[Dennis Clarke]

On 01/04/18 05:29 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 16:56 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > So I could just lift that out of glibc 2.27 and drop it into the make
> >    source tree and have a go at it.  Is that the idea here ?
>
> You could try, but I'm not optimistic that it will just work.

"just work" ?  nope.  not even close.

> I think the way forward is to get the latest code from GNU make's Git
> repository and see if that works:
>
> https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=make

Well sure ... however before I get there I am still baffled why this
current release code won't work on an old 32-bit intel debian server?

I just compiled kernel 4.15.15 on that machine and am running it now.

Certainly if I can compile and run a new kernel on the same machine I
would think I can compile GNU make from sources?  Or am I stretching
here?

address@hidden:~# cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.15.15-genunix (address@hidden) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Debian 
7.3.0-13)) #1 SMP Sun Apr 1 22:27:12 UTC 2018


> Be sure to read the README.git file for information on building from
> Git, rather than from a source distribution (it requires extra packages
> to be installed, such as autotools).

yep .. autoreconf and its brethern however I suspect something else is
 going on here.

Dennis