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> From: Horsley Tom <Tom.Horsley@ccur.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:16:53 -0400
> 
> > > The unexelf.c in emacs-21.2 fails to build a functional object file on
> my
> > > system. The resulting emacs always coredumps because none of its globals
> > > actually have correctly initialized values in them.
> > 
> > Thank you for your report, but please tell what system is that.  (M-x 
> > report-emacs-bug RET would provide this and other relevant info.)
> 
> I could tell you, but it wouldn't really help because it isn't a system
> that emacs knows about anyway :-). (It is far less trouble to apply the
> patches to each releases configure scripts than to try to find all the
> lawyers I need to submit the patches permanently to the FSF).
> 
> However, here is what it reports:
> 
> In GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (powerpc-concurrent-powermax, Motif Version 2.1.0)
>  of 2002-08-28 on amber2

Could you see if the reason for the problems is the change in unexelf
which makes it use read/write instead of mmap?