Re: 21.4.9 compiles but will not run (Redhat 7.3)

Michael> If you have access to the PROBLEMS file that came with Michael> your version of XEmacs, please check to see if your crash Michael> is described there, as there may be a workaround Michael> available. You do have PROBLEMS, and it is described there---twice. There are two known Red Hat-induced crashes that produce that backtrace, the "Hannibal Lecter ld" crash and the "Lesstif? OpenMotif? let's put both in the same place with the same name, works for me on Tuesdays" crash. If "ld --help | fgrep combreloc" produces no output, you have the Hannibal Lecter ld with high probability (but may also have the Motif library shadowing problem, too). If you get output from ld | fgrep, then you should not have any problems with Hannibal, and I would suspect the Motif library shadowing problem. Michael> The same thing happened when I tried to compile 21.4.8. Michael> But I had no problems compiling 21.4.6 (and in fact that Michael> is what is running as I send this note). You built this recently, or it's an old build that is still running? Hannibal was only in Rawhide when 21.4.6 was released, so probably XEmacs would have built fine then, and the Motif library shadowing problem was first identified about 6-8 weeks ago. If you are going to build complex applications on Red Hat, it's a very good idea to review their RPM spec files carefully. -- 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