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