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To: Tore Olsen <toreo@colargol.idb.hist.no>, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: 19.15b3 crash on alpha-dec-osf3.2
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Tore Olsen wrote:
> 
> Benchmarking 19.15b3 configured ok, and compiled:
> 
> ./configure --site-includes=/yfm/include --site-libraries="/yfm/shlib /yfm/lib" --debug=no --error-checking=none --run-in-place
> 
> Configured for `alpha-dec-osf3.2'.

Hi,

I'm trying to build on Digital Unix 4.0, i.e. alpha-dec-osf4.0, and I'm
having a lot of trouble with dying when starting subprocesses.  Do you
have this problem?  Here are the symptoms:

- It happens when starting a subprocess, such as a shell buffer,
  M-x compile, M-x grep, or M-x gdb.
- It crashes with an assertion failure in select_filedesc in event-Xt.c.
- It doesn't happen every time.
- It happens more often if there's at least one subprocess already
  running.
- It happens more often if I compile with optimization.
- It happens more often when running without X.
- I t happens on osf3.2 and it happens on osf4.0.
- It happens with 19.14, it happens with 19.15-b2.  I've been running
19.15-b3 and it hasn't happened yet, but I don't know if it's been fixed
or if I've just been "lucky".

Is anyone else building on Alpha Digital Unix 4.0?  Are you using any
special setup?  Have you seen this bug?

