This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: glibc 2.1.3 and emacs
>>>>> Martin v Loewis writes:
>> Try recompiling Emacs. I remember a bad interaction between XEmacs
>> and malloc in glibc - it might be that Emacs 20.4 has the same
>> problems.
> I just found out that this was caused by me forgetting to add
> --prefix=/usr to glibc configuration.
> Nevertheless, I would not expect to recompile Emacs when I update from
> glibc 2.1.2 to 2.1.3. Instead, I would expect 100% binary
> compatibility.
You should;-). The problem AFAIR was a bug in older versions of both
XEmacs and glibc - and both have been fixed in the meantime (might
have been already in 2.1.2, I don't remember exactly). We can't
maintain bug compatibility.
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger
SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
private aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de