segfault 21.5.b27

[Ville Skyttä]

On Thursday 15 March 2007, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> (Somebody who's done this with the RH debug package, couldja write it
> up for FAQ or PROBLEMS, starting from "rpm -i xemacs-debug"?)

Practically *all* packages shipped in Fedora [0] have had their debug symbols 
stripped into a corresponding -debuginfo package.  If not, it's almost 
certainly a bug.  The instructions for getting sane stack traces are at 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces

Adding info about it in the xemacs package makes no sense, because it is prone 
to bitrot as these things are not controlled within the xemacs package 
itself.  It also depends on the system rpmbuild config if someone decides to 
rebuild some of the source rpms locally.


[0] The original report did not mention whether this had anything to do with 
any packaged version of XEmacs, it just said it was 21.5.b27 on FC6 x86_64.  
The xemacs package shipped in Fedora is not built with Xft, but it has a 
build time "--with xft" rpmbuild option for those who want to experiment with 
a packaged Xft-enabled XEmacs.  I *guess* this is what the OP did, with a 
rpmbuild config that strips debug symbols into -debuginfo packages.