comparison etc/PROBLEMS @ 40008:4aaeaa3a8e3b

Mention the crashes on Yellow Dog GNU/Linux on MacPPC, and provide a work-around.

40007:80f96f61b87c

The solution is to make sure the program used to unpack Leim does not
change the files' line endings behind your back.  The GNU FTP site has
in the `/gnu/emacs/windows' directory a program called `djtarnt.exe'
which can be used to unpack `.tar.gz' and `.zip' archives without
mangling them.

* JPEG images aren't displayed.

This has been reported when Emacs is built with jpeg-6a library.
Upgrading to jpeg-6b solves the problem.

40008:4aaeaa3a8e3b

The solution is to make sure the program used to unpack Leim does not
change the files' line endings behind your back.  The GNU FTP site has
in the `/gnu/emacs/windows' directory a program called `djtarnt.exe'
which can be used to unpack `.tar.gz' and `.zip' archives without
mangling them.

* Emacs crashes when dumping itself on Mac PPC running Yellow Dog GNU/Linux.

The crashes happen inside the function Fmake_symbol; here's a typical
C backtrace printed by GDB:

  0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol ()
  (gdb) where
  #0  0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol ()
  #1  0x1942ca4 in init_obarray ()
  #2  0x18b3500 in main ()
  #3  0x114371c in __libc_start_main (argc=5, argv=0x7ffff5b4, envp=0x7ffff5cc,

This could happen because GCC version 2.95 and later changed the base
of the load address to 0x10000000.  Emacs needs to be told about this,
but we currently cannot do that automatically, because that breaks
other versions of GNU/Linux on the MacPPC.  Until we find a way to
distinguish between the Yellow Dog and the other varieties of
GNU/Linux systems on the PPC, you will have to manually uncomment the
following section near the end of the file src/m/macppc.h in the Emacs
distribution:

  #if 0  /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux ecept for Yellowdog,
	    even with identical GCC, as, ld.  Let's take it out until we
	    know what's really going on here.  */
  /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to
     0x10000000.  */
  #if defined __linux__
  #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95)
  #define DATA_SEG_BITS  0x10000000
  #endif
  #endif
  #endif /* 0 */

Remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives which surround this, save
the file, and then reconfigure and rebuild Emacs.  The dumping process
should now succeed.

* JPEG images aren't displayed.

This has been reported when Emacs is built with jpeg-6a library.
Upgrading to jpeg-6b solves the problem.