Re: Emacsen segfaulting on startup

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

Matthias Scheler wrote:
> You are talking about this change ...
>
>         http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-6.cgi?show=940
>
> ... which is present in the NetBSD 6.1.2 release.
>
> So Riccardo's must be something else. It looks like Emacs is crashing
> while executing the init function of one of shared libraries.
Indeed, it must be something very early, common to all versions tried, 
include xemacs. Since it happens with or without graphics, but even when 
asking for command line options (emacs --help).

A wild guess: this is a Pentium machine, what would happen if the binary 
was compiled for 686? or MMX?

Riccardo