Re: pkg/48408 (Emacs keeps crashing with fatalerror6)

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2013-11-27 at 10:16 GMT, Micky wrote:

> Is it a new issue or something already known (for years?) ?
> Emacs isn't stable is Solaris?

This is a known issue when emacs is linked against libumem, as it is in
our packages, due to emacs' esoteric memory handling.

We are currently looking into ways to fix this, however for now if you
need a stable emacs you should build it yourself without using any of the
Joyent packages.

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