Mike Fabian wrote: > > Markus Alt <altmark(a)de.ibm.com&gt; writes: > > > a week ago, I've upgraded my system to the new SuSE 7.3 (kernel 2.4.10, > > glibc 2.2.4, XFree86 4.1.0). The XEmacsen 21.4.4 and 21.5.3 I had built > > on my old installation (SuSE 7.2 w/ kernel 2.4.7, glibc 2.2.2, XFree86 > > 4.1.0) still run fine as well as the 21.4.4 that comes with the distro. > > > > So far, so good, but as I built 21.4.5 on Wednesday (the build was ok) > > and started it then, it crashed immediately. Did a standard installation > > of SuSE 7.3 today on another machine w/o any special configuration to > > cross-check - same effect. > > > > The lisp backtrace: > > > > # bind (frame-being-created) > > make-frame(nil #<x-device on ":0.0" 0x20e3>) > > frame-initialize() > > # bind (debugger debug-on-error command-line-args-left) > > command-line() > > # (unwind-protect ...) > > normal-top-level() > > # (condition-case ... . error) > > # (catch top-level ...) > > Segmentation fault > > > > The C stack backtrace and the Installation file are attached to this > > mail. It looks like there's something wrong with the libXt stuff, but > > replacing the installed XFree86 RPMs with those from the 7.2 distro > > didn't make any difference. > > > > Is anybody seeing a similar behaviour? Any ideas? > > > > [...] > > > uname -a: Linux hdacpc 2.4.10-4GB #1 Tue Sep 25 12:33:54 GMT 2001 i686 > unknown > > > > ./configure '--cflags=-O3' '--debug=no' '--error-checking=none' ' > --prefix=/data' > > [...] > > You need to add the configure option '--ldflags=-s -znocombreloc'. > For example like this: > > ./configure '--cflags=-O3' '--debug=no' '--error-checking=none' ' > --prefix=/data' '--ldflags=-s -znocombreloc' Works great. Thanks for your help, Mike! Could you let me know why I need those options now and didn't need them with 7.2? Is this kernel and/or glibc related?