From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 22.0.99 emacs dumper (?) problem Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 03:49:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179733774 3703 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 07:49:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 07:49:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chip Coldwell , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 09:49:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hq2dz-0002h3-K6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:49:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq2dy-0002oK-8U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 03:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq2du-0002kX-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 03:49:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq2dt-0002iz-AB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 03:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq2dt-0002iX-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 03:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq2ds-0008UO-3k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 03:49:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hq2dg-00033s-6f; Mon, 21 May 2007 03:49:08 -0400 X-Spook: ISEC Noriega Ceridian COSCO analyzer ANC chameleon man X-Ran: xiwxci9J>CL5??* (Chong Yidong's message of "20 May 2007 23:26:46 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71471 Archived-At: Chong Yidong wrote: > This appears to be due to a change in the internal format of freed > blocks introduced between glibc-2.5.90-21 and glibc-2.5.90-22. As a > result, Emacs binaries built using older versions of glibc may crash > when run using newer versions of glibc. I agree that adding a PROBLEMS entry, and trying to come up with a proper fix for 22.2 (not 22.1), is the best course of action at this stage. I think rms usually does not read web-based bug reports, so he probably has not looked at the long bugzilla entry, and may have missed the important information that you state above. Namely, that the problem is not that Emacs can't be built on FC7, but rather that if the glibc version is changed Emacs needs to be rebuilt with the stated workaround. Whilst it would be good to fix properyl, I hope this can be treated as a non-showstopper right now.