bug#11170: emacs install/upgrade fails

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > Installation and upgrade of emacs version 23.4+1-2 fails on lemote
>> > yeeloong (mipsel) machine running debian wheezy. 
>> If you can build the Emacs executable yourself, reproduce the problem
>> with it, and show us the build log, we might be able to dig deeper,
>> but without this info, all I see is that libc's malloc burped (which
>> usually indicates some memory corruption which can come from anywhere
>> in the megabytes of code involved).

> Thanks for the reply.  I am not very skilled at building packages, so
> any guidance is appreciated.  I tried and failed to build emacs 23.4
> with ./configure and make.  Below is the config.log. Is that what you
> meant by build log?

That's the log from "configure".  It can be helpful, but the log of
"make" would be needed since it seems that the error showed up in make
rather than in configure.


        Stefan