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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Martin Costabel wrote:

> Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
> []
>
> > If this problem will not be fixed soon, TeXmacs will be removed from 
> > many Linux distros :-(
>
>
> As I wrote long ago to the list, I found a patch that "fixes" this for 
> the texmacs package in Fink (MacOSX), namely removing one line in 
> tm_data.cpp.
>
>  # fight segfault when buffers are closed
>   perl -pi -e 's|delete vw;|//$&|' src/Texmacs/Data/tm_data.cpp
>
> This does, of course, not solve the underlying problem, but there are 
> no more automatic crashes.
Yes, this is exactly the line. This problem is
related to memory allocation, and appeared first
when Joris did the refactoring of the code to
separate the GUI code from the main codebase.

It's the kind of thing that tends to be *really*
uncool to debug, that's probably why it has been
postponed till now...