From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: SOLVED: Emacs (all versions) dumps core when built against XFree86 4.3 Date: 14 May 2003 15:16:38 -0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5ly9192vah.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <3EC07022.8060309@yahoo.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052940130 19812 80.91.224.249 (14 May 2003 19:22:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 19:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 21:22:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19G1o8-00054F-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 21:20:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19G1ob-00070p-04 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 15:21:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19G1mV-0005OA-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 15:19:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19G1mE-0004ZQ-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 15:18:59 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19G1m4-0004Jp-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 15:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19G1jL-0004fO-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 21:15:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19G1ip-0004c5-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 21:15:27 +0200 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id h4EJH6x6018974 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 15:17:06 -0400 Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu X-Original-Trace: 14 May 2003 15:16:40 -0400, rum.cs.yale.edu X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5051 gmane.emacs.help:9731 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9731 >>>>> "Hin-Tak" == Hin-Tak Leung writes: > (1) The problem has been very recently reported against CVS > version of GNU emacs in March 2003 (i.e. two months ago), > and even caught Mr Stallman's attention briefly, > no solution is known to the GNU Emacs people; and > yet the xemacs people apparently had the fix integrated to > their ./configure for almost a year now... Odd. AFAIK, the problem has been solved (in the way you outline) a long time ago in CVS (see the ChangeLog entry below). More specifically, I believe it was already fixed in Emacs-21.1. Could you describe more of what was this March-2003 occurrence ? Maybe we missed something. Stefan 2001-09-28 Andreas Schwab * s/gnu-linux.h (LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS): Link temacs with -z nocombreloc, in case -z combreloc is the default.