Re: segfault when building 21.4.9 using RedHat 8.0

Michael> I am trying to build 21.4.9 on a RedHat 8.0 laptop. Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of a Red Hat distro? I strongly suggest you ask Red Hat about this. It's nothing I've ever seen before, but they probably have. Failing that, try installing their most recent source RPM, overwriting the source tree with the more recent XEmacs tree, and building via RPM. General configuration advice: configure with --pdump, and avoid Motif. To give more specific advice and/or locate a bug in our code, we need (1) a C backtrace (2) the Installation file from the new build, _not_ the Installation file from whatever XEmacs you're currently using. It's in the top-level directory of the build hierarchy, named (as you've probably guessed) "Installation". Michael> I looked through the PROBLEMS file and did not find this Michael> problem (which hopefully means I did not simply miss Michael> it!). I suppose we could put *** XEmacs build fails inexplicably. Inexplicable failures are commonly due to backwards-incompatible changes in the OS. Try `./configure --pdump ...'. in PROBLEMS. --pdump is intended to address the most important reason for OS changes affecting XEmacs (the extremely implementation-dependent "unexec" process). -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py