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From: Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu>
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Subject: emacs-20.6 core dumps in FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE
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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 21:53:00 -0600 (CST)
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Hi,
	I installed the package for emacs-20.6 on my machine running 
FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE and it core dumps upon issuing the command 'emacs -nw'. 
This package was obtained from:

     ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.0-RELEASE/packages/All/emacs-20.6.tgz


However, it runs fine if I instead install the package from:
     ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-STABLE/packages/All/emacs-20.6.tgz


The difference between the above two packages seems to be that the former
links against libc.so.4 while the latter links against libc.so.3 (in
/usr/lib/compat). It seems that libc.so.4 in FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE has some bugs.

I also downloaded emacs-20.6 from: 
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-20.6.tar.gz
and compiled it. It has the same 'core dump' problem - it also links against
libc.so.4.

Here's the output of 'uname -a' for my machine:

FreeBSD luzern.cs.rice.edu 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Mar 16
19:14:31 CST 2000     aron@luzern.cs.rice.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/LUZERN  i386


- Mohit


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