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bug#62895: Emacs 28.2 NS build segfaults on startup


From: Po Lu
Subject: bug#62895: Emacs 28.2 NS build segfaults on startup
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:38:53 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

"F. Romage" <mrfromage@comcast.net> writes:

> Building Emacs 28.2 with the --with-ns option succeeds under Fedora 37 using 
> GNUstep, but running it results in an immediate segmentation
> fault. I have attached the console messages before the segfault, as well as 
> the strace output. 
>
> With Emacs 27.2 the build runs and works for the most part, provided I use 
> the cairo backend for GNUstep (defaults write NSGlobalDomain
> GSBackend libgnustep-cairo). With the default art backend or the xlib backend 
> (libgnustep-art, libgnustep-xlib) the text in the editor is garbled
> and fairly unreadable. The cairo backend fixes all that, but it would be nice 
> to use the default art backend, since many GNUstep apps work
> better with that. 

The GNUstep build works in Emacs 29.  Large parts of its font driver
have also been rewritten, so text display problems should no longer be
present.




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