From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Peterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Seg fault during emacs build on FreeBSD (Gentoo) when built without gtk Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:41:52 -0700 Message-ID: <4730FBC0.6030302@gentoo.org> References: <472E3E21.3040101@gentoo.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194392544 28519 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2007 23:42:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs@gentoo.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 07 00:42:26 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IpY3t-000196-9p for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:42:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpY3i-0004UX-8s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpY3Z-0004Sl-DZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:42:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpY3X-0004SV-NM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpY3X-0004SS-JV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:42:03 -0500 Original-Received: from shadow.wildlava.net ([67.40.138.81]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpY3S-0001K3-6n; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:41:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [67.40.138.82] (crater.wildlava.net [67.40.138.82]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shadow.wildlava.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62EE98F3EB; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 16:41:53 -0700 (MST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071030) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16929 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > This sort of problem usually needs to be debugged by someone using the > platform where it fails. You have to work backwards from the failure. > > From the backtrace I can see it is due to invalid Lisp data. > You need to see what the invalid object is, then figure out where > it was found, in order to localize the bug. Richard, thanks, and will do. I can't imagine how this bug depends on compiling with or without GTK unless it affects other things (like the malloc-related ifdefs). The backtrace is definitely not trivial, so if you have any thoughts in the meantime, let me know. -Joe