Re: SOLVED: Emacs (all versions) dumps core when built against XFree86 4.3

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Hin-Tak" == Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> (1) The problem has been very recently reported against CVS
>      version of GNU emacs in March 2003 (i.e. two months ago),
>      and even caught Mr Stallman's attention briefly,
>      no solution is known to the GNU Emacs people; and
>      yet the xemacs people apparently had the fix integrated to
>      their ./configure for almost a year now...

Odd.  AFAIK, the problem has been solved (in the way you outline)
a long time ago in CVS (see the ChangeLog entry below).  More
specifically, I believe it was already fixed in Emacs-21.1.

Could you describe more of what was this March-2003 occurrence ?
Maybe we missed something.


        Stefan


2001-09-28  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

        * s/gnu-linux.h (LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS): Link temacs with -z
        nocombreloc, in case -z combreloc is the default.