Mercurial > emacs
changeset 42906:522d55d73e2e
Document crashes on Irix due to some problem with `rld'.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:50:36 +0000 |
| parents | 09cd352a779e |
| children | 1865230232b7 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Tue Jan 22 11:39:38 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Tue Jan 22 11:50:36 2002 +0000 @@ -703,6 +703,26 @@ Emacs is linked. With LD_RUN_PATH set, the linker will include a specified run-time search path in the executable. +On some systems, Emacs could crash due to problems with dynamic +linking. Specifically, on SGI Irix 6.5, crashes were reported with +backtraces like this: + + (dbx) where + 0 strcmp(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) ["/xlv22/ficus-jan23/work/irix/lib/libc/libc_n32_M3_ns/strings/strcmp.s":35, 0xfb7e480] + 1 general_find_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) + ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":2140, 0xfb65a98] + 2 resolve_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x0, 0xfbdd438, 0x0, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) + ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":1947, 0xfb657e4] + 3 lazy_text_resolve(0xd18, 0x1a3, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) + ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":997, 0xfb64d44] + 4 _rld_text_resolve(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) + ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld_bridge.s":175, 0xfb6032c] + +(`rld' is the dynamic linker.) We don't know yet why does this +happen, but setting the environment variable LD_BIND_NOW to 1 (which +forces the dynamic linker to bind all shared objects early on) seems +to work around the problem. + Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details. * On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15