Re: `print' does not print

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, David Kaelbling wrote:

> > > 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.

It sounds like I have version 6.5.14m of the OS here.  But if you tell me 
what to look for in the output of versions(1), I can give a more precise 
answer.

> > 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)

Yes, but I forgot ;-).

Anyway, I don't know if this is a factor, but my libraries are all built 
from sources, and I linked them in statically.