From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: giacomo boffi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs-18.59 and recent gnu/linux systems Date: 25 Feb 2003 18:31:38 +0100 Organization: CILEA Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046195495 31259 80.91.224.249 (25 Feb 2003 17:51:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:51:35 +0000 (UTC) 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 18njEs-000882-00 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:51:34 +0100 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 18nizL-0004HR-0A for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:35:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!newsserver.cilea.it!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Followup-To: comp.emacs Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: boffi95.stru.polimi.it Original-X-Trace: newsserver.cilea.it 1046194354 11788 131.175.189.141 (25 Feb 2003 17:32:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@cilea.it Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Feb 2003 17:32:34 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (cabbage) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110607 comp.emacs:77851 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7109 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7109 has anyone succeeded in building a functional emacs-18.59 [1] on a debian woody, with a 2.2 kernel? i know of noah friedman's patches, but i'm unable to get a working emacs... it fails miserably, dumping core, when it looks like it's trying to allocate memory for screen structure emacs uses system's malloc as i was unable to get src/malloc.c to compile #0 0x400c3227 in mallopt () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x400c2145 in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x080712f3 in xmalloc (size=452984345) at alloc.c:141 #3 0x0804a195 in make_screen_structure (empty=0) at dispnew.c:247 #4 0x0804c03a in init_display () at dispnew.c:199 #5 0x080572cf in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffa34, envp=0xbffffa3c) at emacs.c:466 it's interesting that emacs -batch works nicely, e.g., ------------------------------------------------------------------------ % cat a.el (print (* 5 6)) % src/emacs-18.59/src/emacs-18.59.2 -batch -l a.el Warning: lisp library (/usr/local/emacs/lisp) does not exist. Warning: executable/documentation dir (/usr/local/emacs/etc/) does not exist. 30 % ------------------------------------------------------------------------ i hope someone has some suggestions, tia [1] in many respects emacs-18.59 is ideal for running calc