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Description of Problem: emacs crashes with a core dump if the xemacs lisp/auctex/tex-site.el file is loaded and used. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): GNU Emacs 20.7.1 How Reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. On Redhat 7.2, put the following in ~/.emacs: (setq load-path (cons "/usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex" load-path)) (require 'tex-site) 2. Put the following in f.tex: \documentclass[10pt,twoside,letterpaper]{article} 3. Run 'emacs f.tex'. Actual Results: # emacs f.tex Fatal error (6).Abort (core dumped) Expected Results: Expect emacs to come up and be able to edit f.tex. Additional Information: I suggested to the user that they use xemacs (21.1.14) which appears to work correctly on this input. However, it seems strange that emacs would exit and dump core on it. Phil Kaslo Dept. of Computer Science 520-621/2760 University of Arizona phil@cs.arizona.edu Tucson, Ariz. 85721
Well, you are providing it invalid compiled code... copying the lisp file and byte-compiling it with GNU Emacs in a separate dir would be a better approach. While it's not expected to work, it shouldn't coredump. Newer versions of emacs (21.1 and newer) handle this by rejecting it: File mode specification error: (error "File `/usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/tex.elc' was not compiled in Emacs") One version with the fix is emacs-21.1.95-1
Thanks. Phil