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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.