>>>> "Ville" == Ville Skytt <Ville>
writes:
Ville> On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 13:58, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Ville> I'm pretty certain that this is related to the "autoloads
Ville> with derived modes" problem
> Can you give me more details? XEmacs should _never_ crash.
Ville> Unfortunately, I'm kind of stuck with the RedHat-provided
Ville> XEmacs RPM still, so I doubt that there would be any useful
Ville> information in the stack traces from it.
Sure, but if there's a recipe to reproduce, I'd be happy to try it.
Ville> I'm planning to build using the hints from
Ville> <
http://www.xemacs.org/FAQ/xemacs-faq.html#SEC71>, ie. "-g
Ville> -O0" and "--debug=yes --error-checking=all" to build my
Ville> "debug-mode" XEmacs. Please tell me if there are some
Ville> options that would make it even more useful...
-O0 is probably not necessary.
Ville> It's also likely that I'll roll this into a drop-in
Ville> replacement RedHat 7.3 RPM and put it online somewhere so
Ville> more people (who are as lazy as I am) can benefit from it.
Be very careful; pay close attention to the Installation string. In
particular, Red Hat seems to use flock, not dot-locking, for mail.
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