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From: james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: 386/ix: X support and shared libraries
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Date: 21 Nov 89 05:31:54 GMT
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In <12551@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, tim@cit-vax.UUCP (Timothy L. Kay) wrote:

> There is a comment in the etc/MACHINES file that shared libraries
> do not work with emacs in 18.55.  Who's comment is this?  I'd like
> to discuss the problem and see if I can be of some help fixing it.

I fixed this a while back, but RMS wants me to get my company to
disclaim the changes, and I haven't done it yet.  The problem is that
unexec.c doesn't really know about COFF and doesn't copy over the
sections used to control shared libraries.  I can mail the fix to
anyone who wants it.
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