Re: Emacsen segfaulting on startup

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:33:27AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
> This is nothing that NetBSD can ensure. A good example is the 64-bit
> time_t change in NetBSD 6.0. If you compile a shared library and a
> program using this type under NetBSD 5.0 they will use a 32-bit time_t.
> If you now recompile *one* of those two under NetBSD 6.0 it will start
> using 64-bit time_t-s. And as a result it is no longer compatible with
> the NetBSD 5.0 library or program. This will definitely result in crashes.

All the libraries involved _should_ have appropriately renamed
symbols for any function taking time_t or different library major
version numbers.

Thor