release: 1.5.24

[lilypond.git] / INSTALL.txt

diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 972e0c14e503a87bd52cfb9e6aeecae45c7a7e3c..a2b3a793e12079ec6997de594ce44aab331ae0d2 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond
     Debian GNU/Linux
   Problems
     FLex-2.5.4a and gcc-3.0
+    Linux-2.4.0, Guile-1.4 -with-threads
     NetBSD
     Solaris:
     AIX
@@ -519,6 +520,17 @@ LilyPond with gcc-3.0 you may do:
 
    Note that this is fixed in Debian/unstable for flex >= 2.5.4a-13.
 
+Linux-2.4.0, Guile-1.4 -with-threads
+------------------------------------
+
+   There's a bug in certain kernels around version 2.4.0, that is
+triggered when using Guile 1.4 compiled with pthreads.  You'll see
+random segmentation fault crashes of LilyPond.  Upgrade to a newer
+version of Linux.  If you can't do that, you may try to recompiling
+Guile without threads (YMMV):
+
+              guile-1.4$ ./configure --without-threads; make all install
+
 NetBSD
 ------