Re: `print' does not print

[David Kaelbling]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> 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?

Sorry, I was mistaken.  The changes I used came from xemacs.


> > 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.

Are you running on a pre-6.5.10 system without the compiler_eoe
patches?  That seems to be a factor.


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

Yes, using shared libraries from http://freeware.sgi.com/.  Actually we
discussed this last November when I first submitted the patch. 
(Subject: unexelf.c failure on IRIX)

        David

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