glibc 2.1.3 and emacs

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> 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
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