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bug#23522: 25.0.93; SEGFAULT when displaying HELLO
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#23522: 25.0.93; SEGFAULT when displaying HELLO |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:22:37 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>
>>> Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com>, mwd@cert.org,
>>> 23522@debbugs.gnu.org
>>> Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 14:06:28 -0400
>>>
>>> > Anyway, this sounds more and more like a bug in one of the libraries
>>> > Emacs uses, so I hope Handa-san will be able to chime in, since he is
>>> > one of the maintainers of those libraries.
>>>
>>> Quite possible. The most important thing, in my mind, is to prevent the
>>> crash if at all possible. That could be done either by writing code to
>>> catch this type of error, or by blacklisting in configure certain
>>> versions of the library (assuming that this is reasonable, or possible,
>>> or a real solution at all).
>>
>> Can you tell what versions are installed on the faulty system?
>
> On the faulty system, m17n is 1.5.5. The font package
> (lohit-gujarati-fonts) is 2.4.4 (Oct 27 2009)
>
> On the working system, m17n is 1.6.4. The font package
> (fonts-lohit-gujr) is 2.92.2 (Jan 2 2014)
>From the above, it seems like this is a bug in an old version of some
external library, and not a bug in Emacs. So I guess this should be
closed as notabug?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
- bug#23522: 25.0.93; SEGFAULT when displaying HELLO,
Stefan Kangas <=