Re: 4.2.2 release

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 02/15/2018 10:37 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I'd like to make the 4.2.2 release now.
>
> One of the most visible issues it should fix is the crash on exit.  My 
> build of the current stable sources does appear to work properly and teh 
> crash no longer happens.  Does anyone else still experience the crash?
>
> Thanks,

Not related to the exit crash, here's another one to consider before 
release:

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53137

I can't say this is a problem, and I can't point to any manifestation of 
the color table being accessed prematurely.  However, in doing 
development here, every once in a while I'll have a crash at launch. 
Knowing how difficult it is to debug rare-occurrence segfaults, I wonder 
if it is easier to just fix the above code and see if the launch crash 
goes away for me.  If this were an issue, it'd be of the sort where 
there is a race between the system setting up the color tables and the 
GUI accessing them at launch.

Dan