Subject: Re: emacs again
To: Reinhold Huber <rhuber@fs.tum.de>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 06/14/1999 07:34:40
Reinhold Huber wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I once again tried building emacs, this time on NetBSD 1.4, encouraged
> by a new pkgsrc.
> But still, emacs just builds fine (with one exception: it needs root
> permissions to unexec) and runs fine in text mode (emacs -nw).
> It dums core when trying to open a X window.
> - Is it of any use if I send somebody stack backtraces and the like?
> - Is there already a fix to s.th. different I don't know of, perhaps
>   some X library, that I should get to try again?

This is a known problem, but both Jonathan and I haven't been able to
get a stack trace because gdb dumps core loading emacs :-(  If you've
actually got a stack trace, can you A) post it here and B) tell us how
you got it (including the NetBSD version and hardware you have) :-)

Simon.