From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 13 12:25:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scc.nl (node1374.a2000.nl [62.108.19.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEAE114A21 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:25:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-current@scc.nl) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA03700 for current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 21:00:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd-current@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by dwarf.hq.scc.nl with netnews for current@FreeBSD.org (current@FreeBSD.org) To: current@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 21:00:46 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <382DC36E.B33958FA@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <87n1si2nu8.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id>, <873duaw5i5.fsf@muon.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: egcs unstable Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Mutsaers wrote: > > >> "MM" == Marcel Moolenaar writes: > > MM> After (by accident) compiling world (excluding kernel) with > MM> optimization disabled (ie -O0) and installing the resulting > MM> binaries, xemacs (21.1.7) coredumps with a bus error. I > MM> recompiled and reinstalled xemacs and all was fine. Now, after > MM> building and installing world (excluding kernel again) with > MM> optimization (ie -O), xemacs does exactly the same: core dumps > MM> on bus error. I'll recompile xemacs again and expect it to be > MM> solved, but something is definitely broken: xemacs should not > MM> core dump after recompiling world with only a simple change in > MM> compiler flags. > > Are you sure this isn't a problem with xemacs itself? Reading the > xemacs group, I read about crashes all the time on various > platforms. It is getting worse with newer versions (the 19.x versions > were pretty stable). Anyway I stick to good old GNU emacs (I can do > without inline images for the time being) which is rock solid, also > after -current 'make world's. Very possible. I don't seem to get xemacs21 on Alpha working at the moment (yes I know the port doesn't support it yet, but that's what I'm fixing :-) It coredumps in xpm. BTW: I also don't need inline images, but I find xemacs more appealing in an X env. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message