Re: Emacs repeatedly crashing in xfaces.c:5444

[Mike Mattie]

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 23:36:02 -0800 (PST)
sdfajsld lskjf <sanjeevfiles@yahoo.com> wrote:

> This is an xft version of emacs that is crashing repeatedly.
> I am attaching the backtrace (multiple), everytime it crashed. Do let
> me know if you need any more input from the crash. I will collect it
> next time from the crash. The xft emacs is very good except for this
> crash.
> 
> This is how I built it
> 
>  # cvs -z3 -d server:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/  emacs
> co -r  emacs-unicode-2 emacs # cd emacs/
>  # cvs up -Pd -r XFT_JHD_BRANCH 
> 
>  make bootstrap 
>  sudo ./configure --with-gtk=yes --enable-font-backend --with-xft=yes
> --prefix=/opt/xftemacs make & make install
>  
> invoking like this.
> 
> sudo /opt/xftemacs/bin/emacs -q -l /home/freddy/.emacs --font
> -*-Consolas-normal-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1

why are you running emacs with sudo ?

There is only one part of the process that needs elevated privileges, the
install. gcc does not need to be root, nor does that nasty snarl of shell
code called configure.

> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Sanjeev.
> 
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