From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gl@csdsun1.arlut.utexas.edu (Jay G. Scott) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: newbie: just built emacs, it's core dumping. Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Applied Research Labs : The University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101145858 29953 80.91.229.6 (22 Nov 2004 17:50:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 22 18:50:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CWI6W-0001zb-00 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:35:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CWIFa-0006aZ-6I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:45:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news.utah.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!ns3.arlut.utexas.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-Distribution: usa Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: csdsun1.arlut.utexas.edu Original-X-Trace: ns3.arlut.utexas.edu 1101148685 27494 10.10.16.165 (22 Nov 2004 18:38:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@arlut.utexas.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:38:05 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: gl@csdsun1.arlut.utexas.edu (Jay G. Scott) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126808 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22209 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22209 i'm a newbie, but even for a newbie, i don't know much. to the point that if there's some simple thing i'm supposed to know, and should tell you about, i don't know what that thing is. i just built emacs-21.3. i run it. it writes the file. then it: on sparc: seg faults on intel: core dumps. the file is there. but if i try to byte-compile *.el files, the file gets written and instantly deleted. ahhh, yes, forgot: solaris 9. gcc. configure --without-pop --x-includes=/usr/include \ --x-libraries=/usr/lib --without-toolkit-scroll-bars gcc 3.4.1 what the heck am i doing wrong? j. -- Jay Scott 512-835-3553 gl@arlut.utexas.edu Head of Sun Support, Sr. Operating Systems Specialist Applied Research Labs, Computer Science Div. S224 University of Texas at Austin