Subject: Re: Precompiled vax packages anyone?
To: Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/22/1998 15:46:14
> > The crash when emacs sumps is because of an error in an include
> > file. I don't remember which right now, but I fixed it a long time
> > ago, to that I do have a dumped emacs-19 here.
> 
> So do I, actually -- 'temacs' crashes while dumping 'emacs', but the
> dumped 'emacs' is still runnable, and hasn't surprised me yet.  Can
> you remember anything about _when_ it crashes?  That is, whether the
> unexec'd image is complete or not?  If I'm running a risk by using it,
> I wouldn't mind knowing about it...  :-)

Unfortunately I don't remember exactly what caused the crash, but I think
it was something about the includes-files defining the format of a.out
files.
(This was too long ago... Like one and a half year ago...)
Anyway, it is fixable, since I obviously managed to dump emacs correctly.

	Johnny

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