[Bug: 21.4.21] xemacs segfaults when doing "ls -l" in shell buffer on 64-bit ubuntu linux 8.04

[Aidan Kehoe]

Thanks!

Damn, it’s not that simple, then. I wonder could the build that was shipped
have used a 32-bit object file for search.o by mistake? 

 Ar an cúigiú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Thomas Mittelstädt: 

 > gcc --version
 > gcc (GCC) 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)
 > 
 > CNS+tmittelstaedt at inbuildlnx01:~/bin$ gcc -v
 > Using built-in specs.
 > Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
 > Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2 --program-suffix=-4.2 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
 > Thread model: posix
 > gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)
 > 
 > 
 > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
 > > Von: Aidan Kehoe [mailto:kehoea at parhasard.net]
 > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Juni 2008 13:13
 > > An: Thomas Mittelstädt
 > > Cc: XEmacs Beta; Jarle Thorsen
 > > Betreff: Re: [Bug: 21.4.21] xemacs segfaults when doing "ls -l" in shell
 > > buffer on 64-bit ubuntu linux 8.04
 > >
 > >
 > >  Ar an cúigiú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Thomas Mittelstädt:
 > >
 > >  > Aidan,
 > >  >
 > >  > I downloaded xemacs 21.4.21 and built it with the same configuration
 > > options as the one that was installed and could not reproduce the crash.
 > >  > Strangely, even though I specified --prefix=/usr/local/xemacs-21.4.21, it
 > > would still install into /usr and /usr/lib.
 > >
 > > Good, from my perspective, that probably means it’s not our problem, it’s
 > > GCC’s, or possibly Ubuntu’s :-) . Both you and Jarle have the same compiler,
 > >
 > > gcc (GCC) 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)
 > >
 > > in your bug reports; what compiler did you use to build from source? That
 > > is, what does gcc --version give?
 > >
 > >  > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
 > >  > > Von: Aidan Kehoe [mailto:kehoea at parhasard.net]
 > >  > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. Juni 2008 17:15
 > >  > > An: Thomas Mittelstädt
 > >  > > Cc: XEmacs Beta
 > >  > > Betreff: Re: [Bug: 21.4.21] xemacs segfaults when doing "ls -l" in
 > > shell
 > >  > > buffer on 64-bit ubuntu linux 8.04
 > >  > >
 > >  > >
 > >  > >  Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Thomas Mittelstädt:
 > >  > >
 > >  > >  > Even when I use ls -l --color=never it crashes, but only when my
 > > current
 > >  > > directory is $HOME.
 > >  > >
 > >  > > OK; I suspect you have some non-ASCII or perhaps non-Latin-1 files that
 > >  > > provoke that there. Are you in a position where you can provoke this
 > >  > > under GDB? I’d be really interested in the specific line number that
 > >  > > crashes.
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Also, beyond that, it’s not surprising that current Mercurial sources
 > >  > > don’t crash there, since they leave the string matching to the X11
 > >  > > server in that context.
 > >  > >
 > >  > > --
 > >  > > ¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghé, que tuvo que huir
 > >  > > precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes?
 > >
 > > --
 > > ¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghé, que tuvo que huir
 > > precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes?

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¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghé, que tuvo que huir
precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes?