Re: emacs dumps core using gnus

[luis fernandes]

>>>>> "eliz" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

    eliz> On 6 Feb 2002, Luis Fernandes wrote:

    >> Is it possible to modify the configure so that it doesn't
    >> build an Emacs with this version of ungif since it has been
    >> verified to crash Emacs?

    eliz> How do you pull such a trick?  AFAIK, libraries don't have
    eliz> any way to ask them about their version.

Gimp seems to be able to do this: the configure fails if you don't
have a certain version of GTK installed. So there seems to be a way
of doing this.

    eliz> Perhaps you thought about a configure-time test for the
    eliz> bug.  

Yes, that is a possible alternative.