Re: `print' does not print

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:49:03 -0500
> From: David Kaelbling <drk@sgi.com>
> > 
> > David, can you help us here and explain why those additions were
> > necessary?  Perhaps the new unexelf.c in Emacs 21.2 makes them redundant?
> 
> I'm afraid I can't offer much useful input here.  When I first tried
> emacs 21 wouldn't bootstrap because the dumped emacs died with a bus
> error.  I compared unexelf.c with the one in emacs 20 and the one in
> xemacs (both of which work flawlessly), and re-introduced some code that
> had been removed.

I cannot see anything in Emacs 20.6's unexelf.c that used .got
sections.  Can you tell more precisely what was removed in Emacs 21?
WIthout the additional info, I cannot figure out who removed that, and
so cannot ask that person for the reasons, nor look in the logs for
possible explanations.

> Afterwards emacs 21 worked, although it is not quite right: it gives
> dbx fits, and is subject to runaway memory growth and sporadic
> crashes.

That's very strange: I use stock Emacs 21.1 on SGI Irix 6.5 all the
time, and I have yet to see a single crash.  dbx seems to work on it
reasonably well, but I didn't debug Emacs on that machine enough to
have a firm opinion.

Did you link your Emacs with optional graphics libraries (XPM, TIFF,
etc.), and if so, are those dynamic libraries or static libraries?