From 24efe898bdbdf20545524f22658d7c837d7abffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:32:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document crashes on X when build with GCC and GNU ld. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index df6bfffa0ec..30a65b01bb7 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -58,6 +58,20 @@ xrealloc(). Relinking the application (by deleting src/temacs and running make) will solve the problem. It appears to be caused by some problems with the unexec code and its interaction with libSystem.B. +* Emacs crashes with SIGSEGV on Solaris in XtInitializeWidgetClass + +It crashes on X, but runs fine when called with option "-nw". + +This has been observed when emacs is linked with GNU ld instead of +Solaris ld. To check which ld is used by gcc add "-V" to +TEMACS_LDFLAGS in src/Makefile. Alternatively the executable size may +be used as an indication of which linker is used. The size is +approximately 15M when linked with solaris ld compared to 9M when +linked with GNU ld. + +The fix is to reconfigure/install gcc, making sure that the SUN linker +is used. + * Characters from the mule-unicode charsets aren't displayed under X. XFree86 4 contains many fonts in iso10646-1 encoding which have -- 2.39.2