Re: Emacs23 upgrade fails

[David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>]

On 04/03/2012 01:04 PM, Paul Roge wrote:
> Emacs fails to upgrade on debian wheezy mipsel for my lemote yeeloong... what a shame! Anything to do?

For some reason the geniuses that created that thing thought that it 
would be a good idea to only work with 4K pages.  Really this is an 
emacs bug, and should probably be reported to those guys.  I have not 
taken the time to do it, perhaps someone will.

If you set your page size to 4K, emacs would work, but my understanding 
is that due to cache aliasing, loongson cannot work with 4K pages.

David Daney

> Setting up emacs23 (23.4+1-2) ...
> emacs-install emacs23
> install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs23
> emacs23: malloc.c:3096: sYSMALLOc: Assertion `(old_top == (((mbinptr) (((char *)&((av)->bins[((1) - 1) * 2])) - __builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd))))&&  old_size == 0) || ((unsigned long) (old_size)>= (unsigned long)((((__builtin_offsetof (struct malloc_chunk, fd_nextsize))+((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1))&  ~((2 * (sizeof(size_t))) - 1)))&&  ((old_top)->size&  0x1)&&  ((unsigned long)old_end&  pagemask) == 0)' failed.
> Fatal error (6)Aborted
> emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common emacs23 xemacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28,<TSORT>  line 2.
> dpkg: error processing emacs23 (--configure):
>   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 134