Re: Crashes running emacs or xemacs: segmentation fault
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Please reply to the mailing list, not to individuals. XEmacs is a
_team_, and the individual who responds first is often not the person
best suited to continue the thread.
May I suggest then, that in your replies, you set the Reply-To: header
to point to the list, not to yourself? I would also like to point out
that in the text that said to reply
to such-and-such address, there was no mention of this address being an
alias for a mailing list. Perhaps that too should be added.
Also, please don't use HTML-only mail. It's only because
I'm a
perfectionist that it doesn't go straight to the bit-bucket; in the
XEmacs context, we get literally thousands of spams a week in that
format, and maybe one or two legit posts a month. You will experience
delays and dropouts if you post in that format.
Then I guess I have been lucky so far. I consider your response time
very good.
Matthew> Thanks. I can't believe I forgot to add in my
previous
Matthew> email: I am running Cygwin. Cygwin uses lesstif in place
Matthew> of(?) Motif (but I think you know this).
Yes, it's detected by configure and noted in Installation.
Matthew> Cygcheck shows: "lesstif
Matthew> 0.93.94-2." Presumably this is later than the 0.93.36 you
Matthew> mention below. So how might I verify whether the patch
Matthew> you also mention was included in 94-2?
Ask the Lesstif people or the Cygwin people. The patch from PROBLEMS
simply rips out the finalization, equivalent to cutting off your
finger to remove a splinter; I would assume that an actual fix would
involve a lot more work.
Matthew> Please clarify what you mean by "your OS's section". Section
of what?
The PROBLEMS file that is distributed with XEmacs. I'm not sure
whether Cygwin installs it, it's part of the source distribution.
If it is only part of the source distribution, then I wouldn't have it.
I installed only the binaries. So I have some README files, man pages,
and info files. But that is all.
Some of that information may be in the FAQ (see the Help menu, XEmacs
FAQ option, or the links to documentation on http://www.xemacs.org/),
however the FAQ is organized differently from PROBLEMS.
No doubt. But I notice that Q.2.0.6 of the FAQ also simply states
without qualification that the PROBLEMS file "comes with XEmacs" without
warning that it is only in the source distribution.
And the only time 'segmentation fault' shows up (in a search at
http://www.xemacs.org/) is when '__malloc_hook' can't be resolved.
Oh, but wait: there is one exception: the section on "Common Lisp
Extensions (7. Declarations)" claims that "For example, barring serious
bugs in Emacs itself, Emacs will not crash with a segmentation fault
just because of an error in a fully-optimized Lisp program."
So if, as you say, this error message is really being caused by Motif
(more accurately, Lesstif) bugs, then that section of the FAQ needs to
be corrected.
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