xemacs crashes with SIGSEGV after update

[Dr. Volker Zell]

>>>>> Vin Shelton writes:

    > Siegmar Gross writes:
    >> 
    >>> > today I updated all packages of my 32-Bit Cygwin installation
    >>> (installed
    >>> > on top of Windows 7). After that xemacs crashed if I tried to
    >>> open a
    >>> > file. Therefore I reinstalled the older version
    >>> xemacs-21.4.23.1.
    >>> > Unfortunately the older version crashes as well. I can start
    >>> xemacs
    >>> > without command line arguments.
    >>> 
    >>> Try with
    >>> 
    >>> (setq progress-feedback-use-echo-area t)
    >>> 
    >>> in your .emacs/.xemacs
    >> 
    >> Great! Your advise solved the problem. I added the command to
    >> .xemacs/init.el and now everything works as before. Can you
    >> explain why this command is necessary now and what it does?
    >> Thank you very much for a short answer in advance.


    > There's a fix for this in the 21.4.24 sources.  Volker - is there any
    > chance for an updated package?

Probably in 2 weeks from now...no time    

    >   - Vin

Ciao
  Volker
  

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