SUMMARY: compiling xemacs 19.14 - function alloca

From: CNS System Administration <operator_at_cns.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 14:28:35 +0100

original problem description:

> When trying to compile the new xemacs 19.14 on a DEC3500 DUNIX 3.2, it
> fails to link the procedure __builtin_alloca. Compilation is based on
> the standard configure script provided with xemacs. The problem
> arises from including the system alloca.h, which simply does a #define
> alloca __builtin_alloca. Does anyone know what library this function
> should come from (looking around, I couldn't find it in any obvious
> ones). I could use the C library alloca (which uses the heap), but it
> is prefered by the xemacs README that builtin ones be used if
> possible.

using the cc options (-Wl,-y__builtin_alloca) the problem was tracked
down to an old gdbm library.

Thanks to Vipin Gokhale for pointing this out.

Andrew
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