Re: emacs-21.2.95: more build successes (with two patches), and one failure

[Dave Love]

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <address@hidden> writes:

> ld: 0711-781 ERROR: TOC overflow. TOC size: 71128       Maximum size: 65536
> collect2: ld returned 12 exit status
> 
> To resolve this, I added -Wl,-bbigtoc to the libraries in
> src/Makefile.  This produced a warning

Could you investigate why that isn't happening automatically?  I
recall addressing this years ago when I last had access to AIX.

> ld: 0711-783 WARNING: TOC overflow. TOC size: 71128     Maximum size: 65536
>         Extra instructions are being generated for each reference to a TOC
>         symbol if the symbol is in the TOC overflow area.
> 
> and the build completed successfully.

> Apple ships emacs-21.1.1 on this system, but unfortunately without X11
> support.  Anyone have contacts with Apple to get their changes merged
> into the GNU distribution?

I don't know about the Apple stuff, but is there anything wrong with
the `powerpc-apple-darwin*' support there appears to be in the
development version apart from it not being mentioned in etc/NEWS?