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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:19:53PM +0200, Ingolf Schäfer wrote:
> I do not know, if this is help, but I think I know the problem exactly.
> With the change of kernels a new thread model (nptl) was used, which has
> made its way into glibc.
> 
> I suppose you are compiling on a kernel 2.4 system with an old glibc. For
> reasons which I do not fully understand this made statically linked
> programms incompatible.
> 
> cf.
> http://www.redhatconfig.com/msg/11988.html
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-discuss/2003-December/004962.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_POSIX_Thread_Library

Thanks for the info.

> I see to alternatives either have a statically link version for the new
> kernel ( with nptl ) or do not  statically with  libc. But what puzzles me,
> is that the problem should have occured 3 years ago for the first time.

After some hacking, I found out that the problem comes from Guile and
more precisely from the call to 'cuserid' in line 28 of

        $TEXMACS_PATH/progs/link/locus-edit.scm         (statically linked)
        /usr/share/TeXmacs/progs/link/locus-edit.scm    (rpm)

If you replace

        (if (defined? 'cuserid) (base256->number (cuserid)) 0)

by 0 in this line, then everything is likely to work fine.
Please let me know if this fixes the problem for all of you.

Best wishes, Joris