Re: Emacsen segfaulting on startup

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 01:56:49PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> 
> Brett Lymn wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:17:00AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> >>Any ideas/hints ?
> >>
> >There was a fix that went into -current a month or two ago which may
> >what you are missing.  Something to do with the way emacs was
> >manipulating the environment which caused memory corruption.  I imagine
> >the fix would have been pulled up to the 6.1 branch but you would
> >probably have to wait for 6.1.3 before it was available.  As a work
> >around you should be able to run emacs-23 instead, that does not seem to
> >exhibit the same behaviour.
> >
> wow, that's inconvenient. I tried emacs 23, 21, 20... they all crash in 
> the same way
> 

Perhaps it is something different then, emacs-23 works for me on a
current-ish NetBSD.

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Brett Lymn
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