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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Emacs 19.29 (2.1 package) dumps core Date: 7 Jan 1996 00:47:38 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4cn57a$h0e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4cmk72$7bf@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen) writes: > Today I found that setting $ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE and $LANG causes > emacs to dump core with SIGSEV. ..as well as xterm. > I "solved" the problem for me by using Xemacs instead ;-) > Any ideas, what's wrong? This was an internationalization problem. The standards say that any application can assume that it's starting in the ``C'' locale. ``ENABLE_STARTUP_LOCALE'' violated this. In FreeBSD-2.2-current, Andrey Chernov has been correcting this by explicitly calling setlocale() in all programs that require it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)