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> I've been trying to make Emacs work in X on my SGI Octane. KDE works, Emacs in |
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> console mode works, and Emacs in X without toolkits also works, but if I |
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> compile Emacs with either Xaw3d or Motif I get segfaults at startup. |
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> Looking around a bit, I see this problem reported as early as December 2001[1] |
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> and as late as April 2005[2]. Other reports (with backtraces from GDB) are at |
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> [3] and [4]. |
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> The Debian bug report[1] claims that this is due to a bug in a new version of |
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> binutils and that it was fixed in January 2002. I have not found any details |
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> about this binutils bug. |
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> Does anyone have any idea what's going on? |
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Short answer: no idea. We should have sufficiently recent versions of |
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binutils. If you aren't already, try using binutils-2.16.1. I don't |
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use emacs (and I don't really care to try), so I've totally neglected to |
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bother testing it with X. |
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Being brutally honest, emacs doesn't even have mips keywords, which |
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tells me nobody has ever bothered to test, which probably means nobody |
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in the history of gentoo/mips has ever cared about it until you came |
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along. If what you say is true, we might even have to add -mips to the |
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KEYWORDS, since there is no way in hell I'm going to use.mask X, Xaw3d, |
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and motif just because they break emacs. If you find a fix, feel free |
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to file a bug report attach the fix, and assign it to us. |
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-Steve |
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