Re: SEGV in compiling tramp-util.el

>>>>> "Conrad" == Conrad Scott <Conrad.Scott(a)dsl.pipex.com&gt; writes: Conrad> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: >> Conrad> Thanks to Vin Shelton for his patch to get the ilisp Conrad> package compiled. Now I have a SEGV in compiling Conrad> tramp-util.el. >> >> This isn't really a SEGV in the usual sense (writing through a wild >> pointer), it's an infinite loop. Conrad> Agreed: the immediate cause of death was a SEGV but that may

Conrad> cygwin's way of mentioning that the stack has run out. Conrad> This is running the latest CVS HEAD copy of xemacs >> >> Known to have at least one such in the lstream code. Conrad> Good: at least, it's better that a bug be known than not,

Conrad> basis of my post really. >> As Adrian says, for working on the packages you really should use

>> stable (21.1.14) or gamma (21.4.8) XEmacs. The 21.5 code is very >> unstable right now, Mule or no Mule. Conrad> I wasn't really trying to work on the packages: I've been Conrad> looking (vaguely as yet) at a long standing problem in Conrad> cygwin where XEmacs loses the output (occassionally) of Conrad> shell commands (particularly, and most irritatingly, of Conrad> compile output). I've got into the habit of using the CVS Hi Conrad, it's worth trying 21.4.8 to see whether it fixes this problem. See http://www.xemacs.org/Releases/21.4.8.html#summary for the details. Please report back! Best regards, Adrian Conrad> HEAD for playing around with, and this is the first time Conrad> for quite a while it's bitten me this badly. Anyhow I'll Conrad> move back off the leading edge a little and keep on Conrad> stumbling about in the code until I've got something Conrad> useful to say. Conrad> Thanks for the responses, Conrad> // Conrad -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/