>>>> "Conrad" == Conrad Scott
<Conrad.Scott(a)dsl.pipex.com> writes:
Conrad> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> 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 well be
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, which was
the
Conrad> basis of my post really.
> As Adrian says, for working on the packages you really should use
the
> 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
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