From: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Crash when loading GIF images
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:09:00 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADtN0WKZkzHzsNp9XkTcaDjy0RSPx=xELGL9LCGqPvCbLWcKdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zjnhz9o8.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 31 December 2013 16:50, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Reproducing the error is very easy for me. All I have to do is to open
> any
> > GIF file and it immediately crashes.
> >
> > The version of giflib in my release of Arch Linux is: 5.0.5
>
> Are you sure the header files you used for building Emacs against
> giflib are consistent with the library? Latest versions of giflib use
> different signatures of several functions used by Emacs, creating a
> binary incompatibility with previous versions, so if you are using
> headers that specify old signatures, you will get crashes.
>
> FWIW, I'm using giflib 5.0.5 (not on GNU/Linux, though) with Emacs
> without any problems.
>
Yes, you are right of course. Thank you. I'm sorry for wasting your time.
I just now (just before I read your reply) discovered that I had an old
gif_lib.h lying around in /usr/local/include that configure had picked up
instead of the real one in /usr/include.
Regards,
Elias
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-31 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-31 8:18 Crash when loading GIF images Elias Mårtenson
2013-12-31 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-31 9:09 ` Elias Mårtenson [this message]
2013-12-31 19:26 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-01 13:47 ` Elias Mårtenson
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