Mercurial > emacs
changeset 54008:f937ce10e7b9
Document crashes on X when build with GCC and GNU ld.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> |
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| date | Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:32:18 +0000 |
| parents | 400d9bd54631 |
| children | 303333d2f1f3 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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