a big THANX! to sean o'connell who hit the nail right on the head.
the 4.0D upgrade (and/or subsequent patches) write over or supercede
certain specific libraries that emacs (i'm running v.19.28.1) is looking
for. particularily libc.so. the solution is to restore libc.so from a
pre-update backup, stick it in a directory (in my case /usr/lib/emacs/lib)
and make it load via one of your shell init scripts. it also helps to put
a reference to your emacs path in your path statement.
so in csh:
in my .login file i put /usr/lib/emacs in my PATH statement
and made an entry
LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib/emacs/lib
and in my .cshrc file i put both /usr/lib/emacs and /usr/lib/emacs/lib
in my path statement.
in bash:
in the .profile file i put these entries,
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/emacs/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and in .bashrc i put the /usr/lib/emacs and /usr/lib/emacs/lib in
the path statemant and added the entry
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/emacs/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
for good measure.
now everything works good as old! thanx again!
orig. posting
> my users used to be able to hit esc-x spss and run
> spss jobs from the current buffer. since 4.0D PK5
> install they can't. 1).is this related to the "memory
> exhausted" summary posting from Nov.? and 2). is
> recompiling emacs my only recourse? thanx, folks!
Received on Wed Jan 12 2000 - 22:58:59 NZDT