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Subject: Re: 20.0b93 linux failure again
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Neal Becker writes:

> As I previously reported 20.0b93 and several previous betas segfault
> on startup.  I found that compiling without any optimization fixes
> it.  Now I have replaced gcc with gcc-2.7.2.1, and libc with 5.4.17.
> These are the current released versions (from sunsite).

> After these changes the problem still persists.

Both GCC-2.7.2 and libc 5.4.17 are O.K.

> I'm going to try updating xpm, since there are indications that the
> problem is related to this.  (If run under gdb, simply running
> produces a segfault with no useful trace - implying a destroyed
> stack.  Stepping through a error is signalled is the image loading
> code.)

O.K.  Then configure `--with-xpm=no', and see what happens.  I thought
all the Linux/ELF xpm libraries were O.K.  I used to have problems
with this in a.out, but they all went away when I upgraded to ELF.
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