# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
# Date 1076956338 0
# Node ID f937ce10e7b9e32d70e9c2e064b64613204afa75
# Parent  400d9bd54631edf439394fdd66aaf0c33d93ec2a
Document crashes on X when build with GCC and GNU ld.

diff -r 400d9bd54631 -r f937ce10e7b9 etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Mon Feb 16 18:26:58 2004 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Mon Feb 16 18:32:18 2004 +0000
@@ -58,6 +58,20 @@
 running make) will solve the problem.  It appears to be caused by some
 problems with the unexec code and its interaction with libSystem.B.
 
+* Emacs crashes with SIGSEGV on Solaris in XtInitializeWidgetClass
+
+It crashes on X, but runs fine when called with option "-nw".
+
+This has been observed when emacs is linked with GNU ld instead of
+Solaris ld. To check which ld is used by gcc add "-V" to
+TEMACS_LDFLAGS in src/Makefile. Alternatively the executable size may
+be used as an indication of which linker is used. The size is
+approximately 15M when linked with solaris ld compared to 9M when
+linked with GNU ld.
+
+The fix is to reconfigure/install gcc, making sure that the SUN linker
+is used.
+
 * Characters from the mule-unicode charsets aren't displayed under X.
 
 XFree86 4 contains many fonts in iso10646-1 encoding which have