Re: Strange errors regarding function '__alloca' on a Debian buster/sid i686 system

2018-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 16:56 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > So I could just lift that out of glibc 2.27 and drop it into the make > source tree and have a go at it. Is that the idea here ? You could try, but I'm not optimistic that it will just work. I think the way forward is to get the latest

Re: Strange errors regarding function '__alloca' on a Debian buster/sid i686 system

2018-04-01 Thread Dennis Clarke
So I could just lift that out of glibc 2.27 and drop it into the make  source tree and have a go at it.  Is that the idea here ? phobos$ ls -lap glob total 216 drwxr-sr-x 3 dclarke devl 4096 Apr 1 21:08 ./ drwxr-sr-x 9 dclarke devl 4096 Apr 1 21:02 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 dclarke devl 1748 Jan

Re: Strange errors regarding function '__alloca' on a Debian buster/sid i686 system

2018-04-01 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 01/04/18 02:58 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 14:54 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: The contents of the glob/ directory are actually taken directly from glibc (although at this point an extremely old version) not developed by GNU make. Oh, or Martin's reply. I guess I'm getting reall

Re: Strange errors regarding function '__alloca' on a Debian buster/sid i686 system

2018-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 14:54 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > The contents of the glob/ directory are actually taken directly from > glibc (although at this point an extremely old version) not developed > by GNU make. Oh, or Martin's reply. I guess I'm getting really old since this rang zero bells for m

Re: Strange errors regarding function '__alloca' on a Debian buster/sid i686 system

2018-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 13:18 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > '/usr/local/build/make-4.2.1_linux_4.15.12-genunix_i686.003/glob' > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -g -O2 -MT glob.o -MD -MP -MF > .deps/glob.Tpo -c -o glob.o glob.c > glob.c: In function 'glob': > glob.c:581:23: warning: implicit declara

Re: Strange errors regarding function '__alloca' on a Debian buster/sid i686 system

2018-04-01 Thread Martin Dorey
Sounds familiar. A quick Google turned up http://gnu-make.2324884.n4.nabble.com/undefined-reference-to-alloca-td18308.html. Maybe your make source is from before that time but your glibc source is from after, though I haven't checked the dates. On Apr 1, 2018, at 11:13, Dennis Clarke mailto:

Strange errors regarding function '__alloca' on a Debian buster/sid i686 system

2018-04-01 Thread Dennis Clarke
I have the sources to make 4.2.1 and the system currently has make 4.1 and there is nothing in /usr/local/bin at all. I setup the most trivial environment that I can : phobos_$ env | sort COLUMNS=132 EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi HOME=/home/dclarke LANG=C LC_COLLATE=C LC_CTYPE=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_MONETARY=