newbie: just built emacs, it's core dumping.

newbie: just built emacs, it's core dumping.

[Jay G. Scott]

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

Re: newbie: just built emacs, it's core dumping.

[David Kastrup]

gl@csdsun1.arlut.utexas.edu (Jay G. Scott) writes:

> 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?

Not reading the PROBLEMS file?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: newbie: just built emacs, it's core dumping.

[Kevin Rodgers]

Jay G. Scott wrote:
> 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?

I don't know (I'm not an operating system specialist :-)

Here's how I installed Emacs 21.3 on my Solaris 9 x86 desktop:

# as root:
pkg-get install emacs

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: newbie: just built emacs, it's core dumping.

[Kai Grossjohann]

gl@csdsun1.arlut.utexas.edu (Jay G. Scott) writes:

> ahhh, yes, forgot:  solaris 9.  gcc.
>
>
> configure   --without-pop --x-includes=/usr/include \
>     --x-libraries=/usr/lib --without-toolkit-scroll-bars

First of all, normally you will have to invoke "configure" using the
explicit path, like so: ./configure.

Secondly, it is better not to specify --x-includes and --x-libraries,
the configure script is often smart enough to figure it out.  (The
correct values are /usr/openwin/include and /usr/openwin/lib, I
think.)

So my suggestion is to try this:

    ./configure --without-pop --without-toolkit-scroll-bars

If that fails to work, please provide more detail.  What does the
above ./configure line print?  What happens when you say "make" after
this?  What happens when you say "make install" after this?

(Btw, why do you want to turn POP support off?  It doesn't do any harm
as long as you don't use it...)

Kai

Re: newbie: just built emacs, it's core dumping.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> ahhh, yes, forgot:  solaris 9.  gcc.
>> configure   --without-pop --x-includes=/usr/include \
>> --x-libraries=/usr/lib --without-toolkit-scroll-bars

I can't find the original post, so the above info is all I have, but  my
crystal ball tells me you need to poass the -znocombreloc flag to
the linker.

Check the PROBLEMS file in Emacs-CVS:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/etc/PROBLEMS?rev=HEAD

Also once you've figred out your problem, please post a "request for bugfix"
to gnu.emacs.bug explaining what problem you've encountered and how you've
worked around it, so we can fix it in the next Emacs release.


        Stefan