Re: Fwd: [Bug: 21.1.14] XEmacs crashes when Gnus reads email with Face: header

Jack> Yeah, that crashed my XEmacs. SY> OK, so we know that the problem isn't Gnus. Personally, I suspect SY> a dodgy libpng. What happens when you visit a PNG file (C-x C-f SY> /path/to/foo.png RET)? Does XEmacs crash or are you able to view SY> the image? XEmacs does crash when I visit a PNG file, but that doesn't tell me we've got a faulty library. It's more likely to me that the glue code in XEmacs between libpng and the app is at fault in that it's probably not handling console-mode properly. I can visit a JPG file and it enters image mode properly. Obviously no image is displayed, but it doesn't crash. SY> Maybe all you need to do is update your libpng and rebuild XEmacs, SY> linking against the new library. Possibly. I'm currently running the up-to-date version of libpng (1.2.5 with local modifications for FreeBSD) and that's what is linked to my XEmacs binary. Jack> Hopefully the port maintainer will update the port to reflect a Jack> more modern version of the software. SY> Any idea who that is? Maybe we can encourage them a bit. :-) I cc'ed him on an earlier message, but according to the port's makefile, he is Michael Elbel <me(a)freebsd.org&gt; but this is roughly four years old (last updated 24 Apr 1999). SY> You obviously have reasons for not building your own XEmacs from SY> source, but that may well be the quickest solution to your SY> problem. I'll do it as a last resort. Jack. -- Jack Twilley jmt at twilley dot org http colon slash slash www dot twilley dot org slash tilde jmt slash