Re: emacs from sources on redhat test fedora setup

[Harry Putnam]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

>     [root@exp emacs]# ./configure
>     checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
>     checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
>     checking for gcc... gcc

Yikes... that was because gcc wasn't installed.

But now with the compiler in place it segfaults at the dumping stage
of `make bootstrap'
[...]
  Finding pointers to doc strings...
  Finding pointers to doc strings...done
  Dumping under names emacs and emacs-21.3.50
  make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs] Segmentation fault
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/cvs/emacs/src'
  make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2