Re: XEmacs 21.4.11 segfault

David> I considered suggesting "--nodebug", but that didn't seem David> to make as much sense as "--strip". --debug=no and "strip src/xemacs" are _not_ synonymous. The default in XEmacs is to build with gcc -g (or the equivalent). This gives us symbol information in backtraces. What happens is that system distros (even Debian GNU/Linux) typically then strip out that information, making backtraces useless. They do it to save space. As the U.S. Senator said "these days 1MB of symbol table is nothing; but a megabyte here and a megabyte there, and pretty soon you're talking a real hunk of hard drive." The extra information that we get with --debug is very useful in many instances, but it's not essential. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.