Re: xemacs 21.4.6 cores immediately on sunos 5.7

Jesse> Fatal error: assertion failed, file specifier.c, line 2583, Jesse> abort() I've taken a look at this, and it would seem something very wrong is going on here. It's crashing while trying to initialize the default face, claiming that you're trying to do so in some alternate dimension unrelated to your display ("unknown specifier domain", if you're up on your XEmacs internals). This seems very unlikely to happen if XEmacs is in at all good health. I still think it looks like the crashes we see with the "Hannibal Lector" version of GNU ld (it silently defaults to '-z combreloc', which slices up your executable and rearranges the pieces, allegedly for efficiency). Try deleting src/[tx]emacs, and then do make LDFLAGS='-z nocombreloc' and see if you get any joy. (I just tested with XEmacs 21.1.14 and it works as expected for GNU ld, the straight build crashes in the usual way, the quick relink-and-dump merrily maps a window and away we go.) If you're actually using Solaris ld, then AFAIK it will error with "no such option" or the like. If you get that, see if somehow your ld is set up to use '-z combreloc' by default, and if so switch it off. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.