bug#24857: emacs24/25 FTBFS since a long time on GNU/Hurd

[Svante Signell]

On Sat, 2017-09-02 at 17:27 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>
> > Cc: 24857@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 16:10:18 +0200
> > 
> > Sorry for not responding so far. I tried the rebuild and it failed
> > then. After that emacs25 sometimes succeeds and sometimes fails to
> > build on Hurd buildds. Mostly fails unfortunately.
> > Examples:
> >  25.1+1-1: fails
> >  25.1+1-2: fails
> >  25.1+1-3: succeeds
> >  25.2+1-2: succeeds
> >  25.2+1-5: buildd hangs
> > 
> > So the problem persists, even if the Debian package build is now
> > different. I don't expect that a build from Emacs master would
> > succeed,
> > if built the Debian way with three targets: build-nox, build-x and
> > build-lucid. When I tried with the master sources the largest
> > problem
> > was when enabling X. Still the same problems with Emacs
> > internal/external malloc-related code exist.
> 
> Please do try the master branch, as the memory allocation code has
> changed considerably there.

Do I issue git clone etc?