Bug#868868: emacs25: Please include patch to fix FTBFS on m68k
Source: emacs25
Version: 25.2+1-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
Usertags: m68k
Hi!
emacs25 currently fails to build from source on m68k because the struct
Lisp_Object in src/lisp.h has incorrect alignment which results in the
tagged pointers used by the Lisp VM being corrupted. This happens because
the native alignment on m68k is 16-bit such that the total size of List_Object
is not dividable by 8.
This can be either fixed by building emacs25 on m68k with "--with-wide-int"
or by applying the attached patch which makes sure the alignment of List_Object
is correct and the tagged pointers work as expected.
I will file a bug report upstream and send them the suggested patch.
Thanks,
Adrian
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Description: Make sure that List_Symbol is 8-byte-aligned
Author: Michael Karcher <debian@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
Last-Update: 2017-07-19
Index: emacs25-25.2+1/src/lisp.h
===================================================================
--- emacs25-25.2+1.orig/src/lisp.h
+++ emacs25-25.2+1/src/lisp.h
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ struct Lisp_Symbol
bool_bf pinned : 1;
/* The symbol's name, as a Lisp string. */
- Lisp_Object name;
+ Lisp_Object name __attribute__((aligned(4)));
/* Value of the symbol or Qunbound if unbound. Which alternative of the
union is used depends on the `redirect' field above. */
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