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[Pierre-Henri Jondot <address@hidden>]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:47:42 +0100
Nick Hopton <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm new here and new to TeXmacs.
> 
> So, before I start to tell you about my problem, I'd like to say, first 
> and foremost, how much I appreciate the great efforts of people who 
> write and freely publish programs like TeXmacs.
> 
> I've downloaded and installed TeXmacs-1.0.18 twice, once as an RPM and 
> once as a source file. In both cases, when I start TeXmacs it appears to 
> load satisfactorily, but after I've been using it for a few minutes it 
> crashes with a 'segmentation fault' message. This is using Mandrake 9.0 
> on an Athlon-based PC.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a fix for this problem?
> 
Edit the configure script and get rid of optimization, by adjusting the
CXXOPTIMIZE flag. The problem lies, it seems, in the gcc 3.2 optimization
engine...

It will be a bit slow, but it will work without segfaulting...

Another possibility is to use the provided staticly built texmacs binary
from www.texmacs.org.

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Pierre-Henri Jondot <address@hidden>
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