Xemacs crashes on opening file

[Johan Alwall]

Ok, I've downloaded and built the latest version from source, and now it 
works perfectly. Too bad Fink doesn't keep its records updated, it's 
otherwise a very nice tool.

Thanks a lot guys,
Johan

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>>>>"Johan" == Johan Alwall <alwall at tsl.uu.se> writes:
> 
> 
>     Johan> I am running the latest version of Xemacs installed by Fink
>     Johan> on my Mac OS X 10.4 system, and it crashes (almost)
>     Johan> whenever I try to open a file.
> 
> In fact, it's crashing in the progress gauge, which is a known issue,
> although we don't know how to solve it yet.  You can work around that
> issue by putting
> 
> (setq progress-feedback-use-echo-area t)
> 
> in your init file, which disables the buggy code.  However, you really
> should find a way to get a current build based on your actual system;
> a version skew from Darwin 7.5 to Darwin 8.6 is pretty huge, and the
> differences between Panther and Tiger are enough to destabilize almost
> anything.
> 
>     Johan> I don't understand why Xemacs would think I have
>     Johan> darwin-7.5.
> 
> It doesn't.  That is the version of the system on which the package
> was built.  Obviously Fink has not updated XEmacs in years.  The
> current version of the stable release is 21.4.19.
> 
> You might have better luck with DarwinPorts (which normally builds
> from source), or getting Fink to build XEmacs from source for you.  Or
> you could just download XEmacs and build it yourself.  The main issue
> is getting it pointed at the packages.
> 
>     Johan> I have tried to produce a core file by setting
>     Johan> ulimit -c unlimited before running xemacs, but it doesn't
>     Johan> seem to work, sorry.
> 
> For some reason Darwin likes to keep cores in /cores/.
> 
> 
>