Re: [Mac-emacs-users] 'Fatal error (6).Abort'

[Michael P. W. <mpw...@ea...>]

This is getting interesting :)  Glad I said something.

At 3:15 PM -0600 8/7/02, Andrew Choi wrote:
>  > [...]  WRT, the security update, I think the problem might be in the
>>  whole unexec process.  That is where a preliminary emacs (just
>>  compiled C code) reads in a bunch of lisp and then spits itself out
>>  as an executable (so I doesn't take too long to load up).  I have
>>  found that when I try to run update_prebinding, it complains that it
>>  cannot update Emacs.  Since update_prebinding is what the installer
>>  does when it says "Optimizing" I assumed that unexec might not be
>>  spitting out the right prebinding.  However, older versions of emacs
>>  I had lying around seemed to still work after the update so I could
>>  be barking up the wrong tree.
>>
>>  Maybe the author of the unexmacosx.c code has an idea?
>>
>>  -Steven
>
>Hi Steven,
>
>I wrote unexmacosx.c but I don't know if the problem originated there.
>
>When I installed the Security Update, I didn't notice it running
>update_prebinding!  That would certainly cause the problem, because it
>seems to change a few libraries.
>
>If other people experience the same problem, perhaps they can try
>running
>
>   update_prebinding -root /
>
>manually. Otherwise, rebuilding Emacs will certainly make it work
>again.
>
>Andrew.
>
>
>
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