From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hin-Tak Leung Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs-19.34 segfauls when built with Xfree 4.3.0 (glibc 2.3.x,gcc 3.2) Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:34:33 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EC27019.1060307@yahoo.co.uk> References: <3EBFB256.4000504@yahoo.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052930365 29665 80.91.224.249 (14 May 2003 16:39:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:39:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 18:39:22 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 19FzHm-0007iA-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 18:39:22 +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 19FzHw-0002pU-08 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 12:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FzGf-0002OY-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 12:38:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FzCA-0000c4-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 12:33:36 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Fz8T-00089I-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 12:29:46 -0400 Original-Received: from m8-mp1.cvx1-c.cam.dial.ntli.net (HELO yahoo.co.uk) (hintak?leung@62.253.152.8 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 May 2003 16:29:38 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:5049 gmane.emacs.help:9726 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5049 Yes, it is a GNU/Linux system. As it turns out, the solution (adding '-z nocombreloc' to LDFLAGS) fixes problem with building current version of emacs as well. It is a problem with 'combreloc' becoming the default since March 2002 in GNU ld so it affects very new GNU/Linux system when trying to build all versions of emacs and xemacs, in addition to very new GNU/Hurd systems, and any other system for which GNU ld is the default linker and for which the version of GNU ld is less than 14 months old. I'll address cemacs/MULE separately. Richard Stallman wrote: > That's a somewhat time-wasting question - if I am on linux with > gcc 3.2 glibc 2.3.x and Xfree 4.3.0 most certainly the linux > distribution I use come with a more recent version of emacs or xemacs. > > If it contains those things, it appears to be a GNU/Linux > distribution, not a distribution of Linux alone. See > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html. > > Now back to my question: why emacs 19.34 segfault when built against > glibc-2.3 and Xfree 4.3.0? > > We're not maintaining Emacs 19.34 any more, because it is obsolete. > Other people are free to work on it if they want to. > > In contrast,, we might be interested in trying to fix this problem > > I want to use a elisp script called cemacs (for Chinese inputs) > but unfortunately the inclusion the MULE (Multi-lingual Extension) > since version 20 has broken it. > > if you send a bug report with a precise complete test case. > > We are certainly interested in improving MULE. Could you write to > emacs-devel@gnu.org and tell us why specifically MULE is not as good > as cemacs for your usage? >