Dear Sirs,
I have just built a new system and installed Redhat 7.3 Linux straight
out of the box set.
I installed all the available KDE/Gnome packages and appear to have
everything up an running
normally. I wanted to install xemacs for code development and writing
latex so I downloaded
the latest stable version 21.1.14 and followed all the build
instructions. Originally I ran the
configure script without any options since most appeared to be
auto-detect and the last time I
built xemacs on a linux system (about 3 years ago) everything worked
fine doing this.
Nothing bad was reported so I ran make install as root. This also ran
free or any errors and
I now have a executable /usr/local/bin/xemacs. I downloaded the efs and
xemacs-base packages
so that I could get xemacs to install it's own packages directly. I
unpacked these into the
recommended /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages directory and then
proceded to run
xemacs for the first time.
Unfortunately, I can not run xemacs without it immediately crashing out
reporting:
Fatal error (11).
Your files have been auto-saved.
Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them.
....
I seem to have core dumps inhibited on this linux installation and can
not work out how to turn
the facility back on. Please advise if you know how to do this and I
will gladly provide more
debug information. I have managed to run ddd on xemacs and it reports:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x4031070e in XtInitializeWidgetClass () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
(gdb)
I tried to change a couple of the configure options not least of which
was --debug but the
problem remains the same.
Since I have never had any problems in the past building xemacs I am now
at a loss for
what to do next? Please advise accordingly.
Regards
Eddie Moxey.
e.moxey(a)surrey.ac.uk