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3 This file describes various problems that have been encountered
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7 This file is rather large, but we have tried to sort the entries by
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8 their respective relevance for XEmacs, but may have not succeeded
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9 completely in that task. The file is divided into four parts:
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11 - Problems with building XEmacs
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12 - Problems with running XEmacs
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13 - Compatibility problems
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14 - Mule issues
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16 Use `C-c C-f' to move to the next equal level of outline, and
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18 info about the Outline mode.
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20 Also, Try finding the things you need using one of the search commands
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21 XEmacs provides (e.g. `C-s').
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22
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23 A general advice:
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24 WATCH OUT for .emacs file! ~/.emacs is your Emacs init file. If
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25 you observe strange problems, invoke XEmacs with the `-q' option
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26 and see if you can repeat the problem.
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32 ** General
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33 *** Don't use -O2 with gcc 2.8.1 and egcs 1.0 under SPARC architectures
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34 without also using `-fno-schedule-insns'.
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35
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36 gcc will generate incorrect code otherwise, typically resulting in
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37 crashes in the function skip-syntax-backward.
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38
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40
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41 There have been reports of egcs-1.1 not compiling XEmacs correctly on
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42 Alpha Linux. There have also been reports that egcs-1.0.3a is O.K.
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43
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47 gcc will generate incorrect code otherwise. This bug is present in at
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48 least 2.6.x and 2.7.[0-2]. This bug has been fixed in GCC 2.7.2.1 and
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49 later. This bug is O/S independent, but is limited to x86 architectures.
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51 This problem is known to be fixed in egcs (or pgcc) 1.0 or later.
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56 gcc will generate incorrect code otherwise. This bug is still
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57 present in gcc 2.7.2.3. There have been no reports to indicate the
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58 bug is present in egcs 1.0 (or pgcc 1.0) or later. This bug is O/S
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59 independent, but limited to x86 architectures.
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61 This problem is known to be fixed in egcs (or pgcc) 1.0 or later.
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63 *** When using gcc, you get the error message "undefined symbol __fixunsdfsi".
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64 When using gcc, you get the error message "undefined symbol __main".
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66 This means that you need to link with the gcc library. It may be called
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67 "gcc-gnulib" or "libgcc.a"; figure out where it is, and define LIB_GCC in
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68 config.h to point to it.
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70 It may also work to use the GCC version of `ld' instead of the standard one.
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71
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72 *** Excessive optimization with pgcc can break XEmacs
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74 It has been reported on some systems that compiling with -O6 can lead
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75 to XEmacs failures. The workaround is to use a lower optimization
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76 level. -O2 and -O4 have been tested extensively.
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79 of libc. Snapshots near the release of pgcc-1.0 have been tested
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80 extensively and no sign of breakage has been seen on systems using
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81 glibc-2.
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88 *** When compiling with X11, you get "undefined symbol _XtStrings".
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90 This means that you are trying to link emacs against the X11r4 version of
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91 libXt.a, but you have compiled either Emacs or the code in the lwlib
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92 subdirectory with the X11r5 header files. That doesn't work.
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95 They must be in sync.
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97 *** test-distrib says that the distribution has been clobbered
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98 or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127"
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99 or, temacs runs and dumps xemacs, but xemacs totally fails to work.
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100 or, temacs gets errors dumping xemacs
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102 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be
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103 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are binary
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104 files and can contain all 256 byte values.
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106 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs. It
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107 typically truncates "lines". (this does not apply to GNU shar, which
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108 uses uuencode to encode binary files.)
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109
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110 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its nonprinting
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111 characters, you can fix them by running:
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112
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113 make all-elc
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115 This will rebuild all the needed .elc files.
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119 XFree86 installs a very old version of libz.a by default ahead of where
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120 more modern version of libz might be installed. This will cause problems
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121 when attempting to link against libMagick. The fix is to remove the old
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122 libz.a in the X11 binary directory.
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126 *** On AIX 4.3, you must specify --with-dialogs=athena with configure
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129 xemacs -nw to fail in various ways. The official APAR is this:
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131 APAR NUMBER: <IX89470> RESOLVED AS: PROGRAM ERROR
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133 ABSTRACT:
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134 <IX89470>: LIBXT.A INCORRECT HANDLING OF EXCEPTIONS IN XTAPPADDINPUT
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136 The solution is to install X11.base.lib at version >=4.3.2.5.
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141 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found.
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143 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d
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144 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install
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145 X11Dev... with smit.
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146
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147 *** On AIX 4.1.2, linker error messages such as
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148 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table
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149 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o.
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151 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing
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152 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where
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153 you build Emacs:
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155 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a .
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156 chmod 664 libIM.a
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157 ranlib libIM.a
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158
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159 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in
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160 Makefile).
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161
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162 *** Excessive optimization on AIX 4.2 can lead to compiler failure.
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164 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
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165 At least at the b34 level, and the latest-and-greatest IBM xlc
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166 (3.1.4.4), there are problems with -O3. I haven't investigated
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167 further.
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170 ** SunOS/Solaris
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171 *** Link failure when using acc on a Sun.
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173 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as
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175 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1/values-Xt.o -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1/cg87 -L/usr/lang/SC2.0.1
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177 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc.
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179 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we
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180 cannot easily arrange to supply them.
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182 *** Problems finding X11 libraries on Solaris with Openwindows
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184 Some users have reported problems in this area. The reported solution
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185 is to define the environment variable OPENWINHOME, even if you must set
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186 it to `/usr/openwin'.
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188 *** Sed problems on Solaris 2.5
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190 There have been reports of Sun sed truncating very lines in the
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191 Makefile during configuration. The workaround is to use GNU sed or,
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192 even better, think of a better way to generate Makefile, and send us a
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193 patch. :-)
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195 *** On Solaris 2 I get undefined symbols from libcurses.a.
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197 You probably have /usr/ucblib/ on your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Do the link with
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198 LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset. Generally, avoid using any ucb* stuff when
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199 building XEmacs.
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200
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201 *** On Solaris 2 I cannot make alloc.o, glyphs.o or process.o.
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203 The SparcWorks C compiler may have difficulty building those modules
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204 with optimization level -xO4. Try using only "-fast" optimization
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205 for just those modules. (Or use gcc).
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206
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207 *** Solaris 2.3 /bin/sh coredumps during configuration.
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209 This only occurs if you have LANG != C. This is a known bug with
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210 /bin/sh fixed by installing Patch-ID# 101613-01. Or, you can use
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211 bash, as a workaround.
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212
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213 *** On SunOS, you get linker errors
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214 ld: Undefined symbol
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215 _get_wmShellWidgetClass
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216 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
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218 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
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219 or link libXmu statically.
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221 *** On Sunos 4, you get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version.
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223 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant
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224 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete
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225 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory.
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226
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227 *** Undefined symbols when linking on Sunos 4.1.
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229 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace,
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230 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after
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231 -lXaw in the command that links temacs.
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232
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233 This problem seems to arise only when the international language
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234 extensions to X11R5 are installed.
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235
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236 *** On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld:
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238 /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment
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240 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.
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242 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.
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243
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246 Apparently the version of libXmu.so.a that Sun ships is hosed: it's missing
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247 some stuff that is in libXmu.a (the static version). Sun has a patch for
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248 this, but a workaround is to use the static version of libXmu, by changing
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249 the link command from "-lXmu" to "-Bstatic -lXmu -Bdynamic". If you have
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250 OpenWindows 3.0, ask Sun for these patches:
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251 100512-02 4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 libXt Jumbo patch
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252 100573-03 4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 undefined symbols with shared libXmu
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254 *** Random other SunOS 4.1.[12] link errors.
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256 The X headers and libraries that Sun ships in /usr/{include,lib}/X11 are
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257 broken. Use the ones in /usr/openwin/{include,lib} instead.
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258
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259 ** Linux
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260 *** Under Linux, you get "too many arguments to function `getpgrp'".
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261
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262 You have probably installed LessTiff under `/usr/local' and `libXm.so'
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263 could not be found when linking `getpgrp()' test program, making XEmacs
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264 think that `getpgrp()' takes an argument. Try adding `/usr/local/lib'
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265 in `/etc/ld.so.conf' and run `ldconfig'. Then run XEmacs's `configure'
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266 again. As with all problems of this type, reading the config.log file
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267 generated from configure and seeing the log of how the test failed can
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268 prove enlightening.
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269
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270 *** `Error: No ExtNode to pop!' on Linux systems with Lesstif.
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272 This error message has been observed with lesstif-0.75a. It does not
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273 appear to cause any harm.
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274
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276
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277 This is a Linux problem where you've compiled the XEmacs binary on a libc
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278 5.4 with version higher than 5.4.19 and attempted to run the binary against
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279 an earlier version. The solution is to upgrade your old library.
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280
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281 ** IRIX
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282 *** Linking with -rpath on IRIX.
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284 Darrell Kindred <dkindred@cmu.edu> writes:
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285 There are a couple of problems [with use of -rpath with Irix ld], though:
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286
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287 1. The ld in IRIX 5.3 ignores all but the last -rpath
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288 spec, so the patched configure spits out a warning
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289 if --x-libraries or --site-runtime-libraries are
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290 specified under irix 5.x, and it only adds -rpath
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291 entries for the --site-runtime-libraries. This bug was
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292 fixed sometime between 5.3 and 6.2.
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293
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294 2. IRIX gcc 2.7.2 doesn't accept -rpath directly, so
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295 it would have to be prefixed by -Xlinker or "-Wl,".
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296 This would be fine, except that configure compiles with
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297 ${CC-cc} $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS ...
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298 rather than quoting $LDFLAGS with prefix-args, like
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299 src/Makefile does. So if you specify --x-libraries
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300 or --site-runtime-libraries, you must use --use-gcc=no,
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301 or configure will fail.
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302
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305 This occurs if you use the SGI linker version 7.1. Installing the
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306 patch SG0001872 fixes this problem.
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308 *** On Irix 6.0, make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi
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309
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310 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o"
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311 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run,
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312 find that string, and take out the spaces.
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313
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314 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem.
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316 *** On Irix 5.2, unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h.
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318 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the
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319 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset
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320 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy
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321 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of
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322 syms.h.
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327 A problem noted by myself and others (I've lost the references) was
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328 that XEmacs coredumped when the cut or copy toolbar buttons were
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329 pressed. This has been fixed by loading the SGI patchset (Feb 98)
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330 without having to recompile XEmacs.
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332 My versions are XEmacs 20.3 (problem first noted in 19.15) and IRIX
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333 6.2, compiled using -n32. I'd guess that the relevant individual
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334 patch was "SG0002580: multiple fixes for X libraries". SGI recommends
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335 that the complete patch set be installed rather than parts of it.
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338 *** On Digital UNIX, the DEC C compiler might have a problem compiling
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341 In particular, src/extents.c and src/faces.c might cause the DEC C
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342 compiler to abort. When this happens: cd src, compile the files by
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343 hand, cd .., and redo the "make" command. When recompiling the files by
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344 hand, use the old C compiler for the following versions of Digital UNIX:
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345 - V3.n: Remove "-migrate" from the compile command.
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346 - V4.n: Add "-oldc" to the compile command.
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348 A related compiler bug has been fixed by the DEC compiler team. The
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349 new versions of the compiler should run fine.
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351 *** Under some versions of OSF XEmacs runs fine if built without
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352 optimization but will crash randomly if built with optimization.
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353
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354 Using 'cc -g' is not sufficient to eliminate all optimization. Try
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355 'cc -g -O0' instead.
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356
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357 *** Compilation errors on VMS.
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358
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359 Sorry, XEmacs does not work under VMS. You might consider working on
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360 the port if you really want to have XEmacs work under VMS.
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363 *** On HPUX, the HP C compiler might have a problem compiling some files
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369 compile lstream.c. Otherwise, I get a "variable is void: \if"
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373 haven't found the same patch for hpux 10.10, and I don't
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374 remember the patch numbers. I think potential XEmacs builders
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393 This might be a sed problem. For your own safety make sure to use
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394 GNU sed while dumping XEmacs.
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401 Unfortunately, XEmacs releases prior to 21.0 don't work with
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402 Motif2.1. It will compile but you will get excessive X11 errors like
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404 xemacs: X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
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406 and finally XEmacs gets killed. A workaround is to use the
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407 Motif1.2_R6 libraries. You can the following line to your call to
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408 configure:
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410 --x-libraries="/usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6 -L/usr/lib/X11R6"
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412 Make sure /usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6/libXm.sl is a link to
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413 /usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6/libXm.3.
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417 Marcus Thiessel <marcus@xemacs.org>
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418
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419 XEmacs dies without core file and reports:
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421 Error: Object "" does not have windowed ancestor.
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423 This is a bug. Please apply the patch PHSS_19964 (check if
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424 superseded). The other alternative is to link with Motif1.2_R6 (see
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425 previous item).
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429 *** Native cc on SCO OpenServer 5 is now OK. Icc may still throw you
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430 a curve. Here is what Robert Lipe <robertl@arnet.com> says:
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432 Unlike XEmacs 19.13, building with the native cc on SCO OpenServer 5
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433 now produces a functional binary. I will typically build this
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434 configuration for COFF with:
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438 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas
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440 This version now supports ELF builds. I highly recommend this to
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441 reduce the in-core footprint of XEmacs. This is now how I compile
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442 all my test releases. Build it like this:
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443
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444 /path_to_XEmacs_source/configure --with-gcc=no \
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445 --site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
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446 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas --dynamic
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448 The compiler known as icc [ supplied with the OpenServer 5 Development
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449 System ] generates a working binary, but it takes forever to generate
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450 XEmacs. ICC also whines more about the code than /bin/cc does. I do
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451 believe all its whining is legitimate, however. Note that you do
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452 have to 'cd src ; make LD=icc' to avoid linker errors.
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453
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454 The way I handle the build procedure is:
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455
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456 /path_to_XEmacs_source/configure --with-gcc=no \
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457 --site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
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458 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas --dynamic --compiler="icc"
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459
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460 NOTE I have the xpm, xface, and audio libraries and includes in
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461 /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include. If you don't have these,
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462 don't include the "--with-*" arguments in any of my examples.
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463
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464 In previous versions of XEmacs, you had to override the defaults while
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465 compiling font-lock.o and extents.o when building with icc. This seems
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466 to no longer be true, but I'm including this old information in case it
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467 resurfaces. The process I used was:
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468
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469 make -k
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470 [ procure pizza, beer, repeat ]
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471 cd src
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472 make CC="icc -W0,-mP1COPT_max_tree_size=3000" font-lock.o extents.o
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473 make LD=icc
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474
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475 If you want sound support, get the tls566 supplement from
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476 ftp.sco.com:/TLS or any of its mirrors. It works just groovy
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477 with XEmacs.
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478
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479 The M-x manual-entry is known not to work. If you know Lisp and would
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480 like help in making it work, e-mail me at <robertl@dgii.com>.
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481 (UNCHECKED for 19.15 -- it might work).
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482
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483 In earlier releases, gnuserv/gnuclient/gnudoit would open a frame
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484 just fine, but the client would lock up and the server would
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485 terminate when you used C-x # to close the frame. This is now
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486 fixed in XEmacs.
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487
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488 In etc/ there are two files of note. emacskeys.sco and emacsstrs.sco.
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489 The comments at the top of emacskeys.sco describe its function, and
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490 the emacstrs.sco is a suitable candidate for /usr/lib/keyboard/strings
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491 to take advantage of the keyboard map in emacskeys.sco.
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492
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497 *** In general use etc/check_cygwin_setup.sh to trap environment problems.
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498
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499 The script etc/check_cygwin_setup.sh will attempt to detect whether
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500 you have a suitable environment for building. This script may not work
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501 correctly if you are using ash instead of bash (see below).
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502
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503 *** X11 not detected.
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504
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505 This is usually because xmkmf is not in your path or because you are
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506 using the default cygwin shell. The default cygwin shell (/bin/sh.exe)
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507 is ash which appears to work in most circumstances but has some wierd
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508 failure modes. I recommend replacing sh.exe with bash.exe, this will
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509 mean configure is slower but more reliable.
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510
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511 *** Subprocesses do not work.
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512
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513 You do not have "tty" in your CYGWIN32 (for b19) or CYGWIN (for b20)
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514 environment variable. This must be set in your autoexec.bat (win95) or
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515 the system properties (winnt) as it must be read before the cygwin dll
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516 initializes.
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517
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518 *** ^G does not work on hung subprocesses.
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519
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520 This is a known problem. It can be remedied with cygwin b20 or greater
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521 by defining BROKEN_SIGIO in src/s/cygwin32.h, however this currently
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522 leads to instability in XEmacs.
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523
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524 *** The XEmacs executable crashes at startup.
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525
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526 This can be caused by many things.
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527
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528 If you are running with X11 you need to have cygwin b19 or cygwin
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529 b20.1 or greater, cygwin b20 will not work.
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530
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531 If you are running with cygwin b19 make sure you are using egcs 1.0.2
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532 rather than vanilla gcc. XEmacs builds by default with -O3 which does
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533 not work with the gcc that ships with b19. Alternatively use -O2.
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534
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535 *** The info files will not build.
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536
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537 makeinfo that ships with cygwin (all versions) is a noop. You need to
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538 obtain makeinfo from somewhere or build it yourself.
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539
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540 *** I have no graphics.
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541
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542 You need to obtain the various graphics libraries. Pre-built versions
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543 of these and the X libraries are located on the XEmacs website in
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544 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/aux/cygwin*.
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545
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546 *** There are no images in the toolbar buttons.
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547
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548 You need version 4.71 of commctrl.dll which does not ship with windows
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549 95. You can get this by installing IE 4.0 or downloading it from the
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550 microsoft website.
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552
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554 ==============================
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555 ** General
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556 *** C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs.
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558 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even
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559 though the system itself is capable of it. Try using a different
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560 shell.
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561
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562 *** You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters.
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563
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564 Emacs has traditionally used Control-H for help; unfortunately this
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565 interferes with its use as Backspace on TTY's. As of XEmacs 21,
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566 XEmacs looks at the "erase" setting of TTY structures and maps C-h to
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567 backspace when erase is set to C-h. This is sort of a special hack,
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568 but it makes it possible for you to use the standard:
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569
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570 stty erase ^H
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571
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572 to get your backspace key to erase characters. The erase setting is
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573 recorded in the Lisp variable `tty-erase-char', which you can use to
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574 tune the settings in your .emacs.
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576 A major drawback of this is that when C-h becomes backspace, it no
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577 longer invokes help. In that case, you need to use f1 for help, or
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578 bind another key. An example of the latter is the following code,
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579 which moves help to Meta-? (ESC ?):
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581 (global-set-key "\M-?" 'help-command)
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582
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585 rmail and VM get new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program
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586 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using the
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587 protocol defined by /bin/mail.
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588
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589 There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses
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590 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file;
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591 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do
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592 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining, the
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593 macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes. IF
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594 YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR SYSTEM,
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595 YOU CAN LOSE MAIL!
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596
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597 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
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598 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
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599 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
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600 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing
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601 the make install.
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602
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603 chgrp mail movemail
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604 chmod 2755 movemail
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605
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606 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an
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607 installation directory which is usually under /usr/local/lib. The
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608 installed copy of movemail is usually in the directory
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609 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and
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610 mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build
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611 directory copy is ineffective.
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612
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613 *** VM appears to hang in large folders.
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614
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615 This is normal (trust us) when upgrading to VM-6.22 from earlier
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616 versions. Let VM finish what it is doing and all will be well.
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617
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620 You may have forgotten to recompile them into .elc files. Then the
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621 old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes will not be seen. To
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622 fix this, do `M-x byte-recompile-directory' and specify the directory
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623 that contains the Lisp files.
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624
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625 Note that you will get a warning when loading a .elc file that is
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626 older than the corresponding .el file.
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627
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628 *** Things which should be bold or italic (such as the initial
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630
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631 The fonts of the "bold" and "italic" faces are generated from the font
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632 of the "default" face; in this way, your bold and italic fonts will
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633 have the appropriate size and family. However, emacs can only be
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634 clever in this way if you have specified the default font using the
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635 XLFD (X Logical Font Description) format, which looks like
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636
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637 *-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
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638
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639 if you use any of the other, less strict font name formats, some of
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640 which look like:
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641
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642 lucidasanstypewriter-12
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643 and fixed
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644 and 9x13
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645
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646 then emacs won't be able to guess the names of the "bold" and "italic"
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647 versions. All X fonts can be referred to via XLFD-style names, so you
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648 should use those forms. See the man pages for X(1), xlsfonts(1), and
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649 xfontsel(1).
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650
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652
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653 Two causes have been seen for such problems.
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654
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655 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined
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656 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong,
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657 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct
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658 value in the man page for a.out (5).
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659
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660 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the
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661 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most
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662 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and
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663 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you
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664 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file.
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665
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312
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666 *** Reading and writing files is very very slow.
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667
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668 Try evaluating the form (setq lock-directory nil) and see if that helps.
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669 There is a problem with file-locking on some systems (possibly related
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670 to NFS) that I don't understand. Please send mail to the address
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671 xemacs@xemacs.org if you figure this one out.
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672
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673 *** When emacs starts up, I get lots of warnings about unknown keysyms.
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674
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675 If you are running the prebuilt binaries, the Motif library expects to find
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676 certain thing in the XKeysymDB file. This file is normally in /usr/lib/X11/
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677 or in /usr/openwin/lib/. If you keep yours in a different place, set the
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678 environment variable $XKEYSYMDB to point to it before starting emacs. If
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679 you still have the problem after doing that, perhaps your version of X is
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680 too old. There is a copy of the MIT X11R5 XKeysymDB file in the emacs `etc'
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681 directory. Try using that one.
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682
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683 *** My X resources used to work, and now some of them are being ignored.
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684
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685 Check the resources in .../etc/Emacs.ad (which is the same as the file
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686 sample.Xdefaults). Perhaps some of the default resources built in to
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687 emacs are now overriding your existing resources. Copy and edit the
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688 resources in Emacs.ad as necessary.
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689
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690 *** I have focus problems when I use `M-o' to switch to another screen
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691 without using the mouse.
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692
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693 The focus issues with a program like XEmacs, which has multiple
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694 homogeneous top-level windows, are very complicated, and as a result,
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695 most window managers don't implement them correctly.
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697 The R4/R5 version of twm (and all of its descendants) had buggy focus
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698 handling. Sufficiently recent versions of tvtwm have been fixed. In
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699 addition, if you're using twm, make sure you have not specified
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700 "NoTitleFocus" in your .tvtwmrc file. The very nature of this option
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701 makes twm do some illegal focus tricks, even with the patch.
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702
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703 It is known that olwm and olvwm are buggy, and in different ways. If
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704 you're using click-to-type mode, try using point-to-type, or vice
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705 versa.
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706
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707 In older versions of NCDwm, one could not even type at XEmacs windows.
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708 This has been fixed in newer versions (2.4.3, and possibly earlier).
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710 (Many people suggest that XEmacs should warp the mouse when focusing
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711 on another screen in point-to-type mode. This is not ICCCM-compliant
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712 behavior. Implementing such policy is the responsibility of the
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713 window manager itself, it is not legal for a client to do this.)
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0
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714
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312
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715 *** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen.
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0
|
716
|
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717 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being
|
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718 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes
|
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|
719 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long
|
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|
720 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a
|
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721 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a
|
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722 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible
|
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723 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is
|
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724 easy, for a person with at least half a brain.
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725
|
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726 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place:
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727
|
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728 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control
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729 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use
|
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730 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible
|
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731
|
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732 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether
|
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733 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to
|
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734 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an
|
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735 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off
|
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736 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow
|
|
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737 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on.
|
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738
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739 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it
|
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|
740 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled
|
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741 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud
|
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742 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print
|
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743 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if
|
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744 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If
|
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745 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a
|
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746 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard
|
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747 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type.
|
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748
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|
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749 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just
|
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750 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control
|
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751 codes. You might as well try it.
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752
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753 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer
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|
754 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the
|
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|
755 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how
|
|
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756 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow
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757 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard),
|
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|
758 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator
|
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|
759 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic
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|
760 measures can make Emacs semi-work.
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761
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762 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system
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763 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x
|
|
|
764 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are
|
|
|
765 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x
|
|
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766 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow
|
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|
767 control handling.)
|
|
|
768
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769 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them
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|
770 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose
|
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771 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement
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|
772 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all
|
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|
773 other control characters are already used by emacs.
|
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774
|
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775 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled,
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776 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in
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777 order to continue.
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778
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779 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a
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780 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function
|
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781 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme
|
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782 automatically. Here is an example:
|
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783
|
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|
784 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
|
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785
|
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|
786 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled
|
|
|
787 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control
|
|
|
788 manually.
|
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|
789
|
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790 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the
|
|
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791 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow
|
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|
792 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad
|
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|
793 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming
|
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794 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some
|
|
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795 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I
|
|
|
796 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake
|
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|
797 of inferior systems.
|
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798
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312
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799 *** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely.
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0
|
800
|
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|
801 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow
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|
|
802 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your
|
|
|
803 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator
|
|
|
804 that wants to use flow control.
|
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|
805
|
|
|
806 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control.
|
|
|
807 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without
|
|
|
808 flow control, as described in the preceding section.
|
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|
809
|
|
|
810 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters
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|
|
811 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above
|
|
|
812 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\.
|
|
|
813
|
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312
|
814 *** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely on a net
|
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197
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815 connection.
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0
|
816
|
|
|
817 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow
|
|
|
818 control characters to the remote system to which they connect.
|
|
|
819 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow
|
|
|
820 control on the local system.
|
|
|
821
|
|
|
822 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host
|
|
|
823 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the
|
|
|
824 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems,
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|
120
|
825 `stty start u stop u' will do this.
|
|
0
|
826
|
|
|
827 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way
|
|
|
828 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and
|
|
|
829 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell.
|
|
|
830
|
|
|
831 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type
|
|
120
|
832 `M-x enable-flow-control' at the beginning of your emacs session, or
|
|
0
|
833 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the
|
|
|
834 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind):
|
|
|
835
|
|
|
836 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
|
|
|
837
|
|
|
838 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more
|
|
|
839 info.
|
|
|
840
|
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312
|
841 *** TTY redisplay is slow.
|
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197
|
842
|
|
|
843 XEmacs has fairly new TTY redisplay support (beginning from 19.12),
|
|
|
844 which doesn't include some basic TTY optimizations -- like using
|
|
|
845 scrolling regions to move around blocks of text. This is why
|
|
|
846 redisplay on the traditional terminals, or over slow lines can be very
|
|
|
847 slow.
|
|
|
848
|
|
|
849 If you are interested in fixing this, please let us know at
|
|
|
850 <xemacs@xemacs.org>.
|
|
|
851
|
|
312
|
852 *** Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal.
|
|
0
|
853
|
|
120
|
854 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that terminal
|
|
|
855 is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing the
|
|
|
856 combination of features specified for that terminal.
|
|
0
|
857
|
|
|
858 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters
|
|
|
859 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression
|
|
120
|
860 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all terminal
|
|
|
861 output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do what makes the
|
|
|
862 screen update wrong, and look at the file and decode the characters
|
|
|
863 using the manual for the terminal. There are several possibilities:
|
|
0
|
864
|
|
|
865 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual.
|
|
|
866
|
|
|
867 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you
|
|
|
868 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong.
|
|
|
869
|
|
120
|
870 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect of the
|
|
|
871 terminal behavior not described in an obvious way by termcap.
|
|
0
|
872
|
|
120
|
873 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for Emacs
|
|
|
874 to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior and other
|
|
|
875 terminals that behave subtly differently but are classified the same
|
|
|
876 by termcap; or else find an algorithm for Emacs to use that avoids the
|
|
|
877 difference. Such changes must be tested on many kinds of terminals.
|
|
0
|
878
|
|
|
879 3) The termcap entry is wrong.
|
|
|
880
|
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120
|
881 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes that are known to be
|
|
|
882 needed in commonly used termcap entries for certain terminals.
|
|
0
|
883
|
|
120
|
884 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be right for
|
|
|
885 any terminal with the termcap entry you were using.
|
|
0
|
886
|
|
120
|
887 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed in
|
|
197
|
888 termcap.c, terminfo.c, tparam.c, cm.c, redisplay-tty.c,
|
|
|
889 redisplay-output.c, or redisplay.c.
|
|
0
|
890
|
|
312
|
891 *** My buffers are full of \000 characters or otherwise corrupt.
|
|
|
892
|
|
|
893 Some compilers have trouble with gmalloc.c and ralloc.c; try recompiling
|
|
|
894 without optimization. If that doesn't work, try recompiling with
|
|
|
895 SYSTEM_MALLOC defined, and/or with REL_ALLOC undefined.
|
|
|
896
|
|
|
897 *** A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm.
|
|
|
898
|
|
|
899 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions.
|
|
|
900 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file:
|
|
|
901
|
|
|
902 UsePPosition "on" #allow clents to request a position
|
|
|
903
|
|
|
904 *** With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice to do
|
|
|
905 incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response.
|
|
|
906
|
|
|
907 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit,
|
|
|
908 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use
|
|
|
909 another escape character in kermit. One user did
|
|
|
910
|
|
|
911 set escape-character 17
|
|
|
912
|
|
|
913 in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character.
|
|
|
914
|
|
|
915 *** The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color.
|
|
|
916
|
|
|
917 This has been observed to result from the following X resource:
|
|
|
918
|
|
|
919 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
|
|
|
920
|
|
|
921 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we
|
|
|
922 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can
|
|
|
923 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing
|
|
|
924 the resource prevents the problem.
|
|
|
925
|
|
|
926 *** After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash.
|
|
|
927
|
|
|
928 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the
|
|
|
929 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly
|
|
|
930 the first time, and then crash when run a second time.
|
|
|
931
|
|
|
932 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time,
|
|
|
933 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your
|
|
|
934 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the
|
|
|
935 configure script) that reads:
|
|
|
936 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC
|
|
|
937 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around
|
|
|
938 the kernel bug.
|
|
|
939
|
|
|
940 *** Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating
|
|
|
941 directly with an X server.
|
|
|
942
|
|
|
943 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it
|
|
|
944 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is
|
|
|
945 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c
|
|
|
946 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event
|
|
|
947 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you
|
|
|
948 have made the key binding correctly.
|
|
|
949
|
|
|
950 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may
|
|
|
951 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X
|
|
|
952 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by
|
|
|
953 default.
|
|
|
954
|
|
|
955 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows:
|
|
|
956
|
|
|
957 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L'
|
|
|
958 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R'
|
|
|
959
|
|
|
960 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those
|
|
|
961 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you
|
|
|
962 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any
|
|
|
963 modifier bit not otherwise used.
|
|
|
964
|
|
|
965 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other
|
|
|
966 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or
|
|
|
967 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the
|
|
|
968 commands show above to make them modifier keys.
|
|
|
969
|
|
|
970 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt
|
|
|
971 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs.
|
|
|
972
|
|
|
973 *** In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line.
|
|
|
974
|
|
|
975 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too
|
|
|
976 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns
|
|
|
977 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the
|
|
|
978 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:
|
|
|
979
|
|
|
980 if ($?EMACS) then
|
|
|
981 if ($EMACS == "t") then
|
|
|
982 unset edit
|
|
|
983 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
|
|
|
984 endif
|
|
|
985 endif
|
|
|
986
|
|
|
987 *** An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid
|
|
|
988 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'.
|
|
|
989
|
|
|
990 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as
|
|
|
991 emacs*Cursor: black
|
|
|
992 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something
|
|
|
993 that isn't a color.)
|
|
|
994
|
|
|
995 The fix is to correct your X resources.
|
|
|
996
|
|
|
997 *** Once you pull down a menu from the menubar, it won't go away.
|
|
|
998
|
|
|
999 It has been claimed that this is caused by a bug in certain very old
|
|
|
1000 (1990?) versions of the twm window manager. It doesn't happen with
|
|
|
1001 recent vintages, or with other window managers.
|
|
|
1002
|
|
|
1003 *** Emacs ignores the "help" key when running OLWM.
|
|
|
1004
|
|
|
1005 OLWM grabs the help key, and retransmits it to the appropriate client
|
|
|
1006 using XSendEvent. Allowing emacs to react to synthetic events is a
|
|
|
1007 security hole, so this is turned off by default. You can enable it by
|
|
|
1008 setting the variable x-allow-sendevents to t. You can also cause fix
|
|
|
1009 this by telling OLWM to not grab the help key, with the null binding
|
|
|
1010 "OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand.Help:".
|
|
|
1011
|
|
|
1012 *** Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
|
|
|
1013 terminal type.
|
|
|
1014
|
|
|
1015 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP
|
|
|
1016 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to
|
|
|
1017 provide the information on the special terminal type that Emacs
|
|
|
1018 emulates.
|
|
|
1019
|
|
|
1020 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP
|
|
|
1021 in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets
|
|
|
1022 it only if it is undefined.
|
|
|
1023
|
|
|
1024 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file
|
|
|
1025
|
|
|
1026 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not
|
|
|
1027 happen in a non-login shell.
|
|
|
1028
|
|
|
1029 *** The popup menu appears at the buttom/right of my screen.
|
|
|
1030
|
|
|
1031 You probably have something like the following in your ~/.Xdefaults
|
|
|
1032
|
|
|
1033 Emacs.geometry: 81x56--9--1
|
|
|
1034
|
|
|
1035 Use the following instead
|
|
|
1036
|
|
|
1037 Emacs*EmacsFrame.geometry: 81x56--9--1
|
|
|
1038
|
|
|
1039
|
|
|
1040 ** AIX
|
|
|
1041 *** Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal, using an AIXterm.
|
|
0
|
1042
|
|
|
1043 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines:
|
|
|
1044
|
|
|
1045 *aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f)
|
|
|
1046 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
|
|
|
1047
|
|
|
1048 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127).
|
|
|
1049
|
|
312
|
1050 *** On AIX 4, some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer
|
|
|
1051 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown".
|
|
124
|
1052
|
|
312
|
1053 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
|
|
|
1054 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal
|
|
|
1055 Definitions" to make them defined.
|
|
124
|
1056
|
|
312
|
1057 *** On AIX, you get this message when running Emacs:
|
|
0
|
1058
|
|
312
|
1059 Could not load program emacs
|
|
|
1060 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined
|
|
|
1061 Error was: Exec format error
|
|
124
|
1062
|
|
312
|
1063 or this one:
|
|
0
|
1064
|
|
312
|
1065 Could not load program .emacs
|
|
|
1066 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined
|
|
|
1067 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined
|
|
|
1068 Error was: Exec format error
|
|
124
|
1069
|
|
312
|
1070 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was
|
|
|
1071 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile.
|
|
124
|
1072
|
|
312
|
1073 *** Trouble using ptys on AIX.
|
|
|
1074
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1075 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly.
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1076 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly.
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1077
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0
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1078
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312
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1079 ** SunOS/Solaris
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1080 *** The Emacs window disappears when you type M-q.
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197
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1081
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312
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1082 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit
|
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1083 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use
|
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1084 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window
|
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|
1085 manager to use some other command. You can disable the
|
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1086 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults:
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0
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1087
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312
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1088 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False
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1089
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1090 *** When Emacs tries to ring the bell, you get an error like
|
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124
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1091
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1092 audio: sst_open: SETQSIZE" Invalid argument
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1093 audio: sst_close: SETREG MMR2, Invalid argument
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1094
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197
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1095 you have probably compiled using an ANSI C compiler, but with non-ANSI
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1096 include files. In particular, on Suns, the file
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1097 /usr/include/sun/audioio.h uses the _IOW macro to define the constant
|
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1098 AUDIOSETQSIZE. _IOW in turn uses a K&R preprocessor feature that is
|
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1099 now explicitly forbidden in ANSI preprocessors, namely substitution
|
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1100 inside character constants. All ANSI C compilers must provide a
|
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1101 workaround for this problem. Lucid's C compiler is shipped with a new
|
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1102 set of system include files. If you are using GCC, there is a script
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1103 called fixincludes that creates new versions of some system include
|
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1104 files that use this obsolete feature.
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124
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1105
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312
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1106 *** On Solaris 2.6, XEmacs dumps core when exiting.
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0
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1107
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312
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1108 This happens if you're XEmacs is running on the same machine as the X
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1109 server, and the optimized memory transport has been turned on by
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1110 setting the environment variable XSUNTRANSPORT. The crash occurs
|
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1111 during the call to XCloseDisplay.
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124
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1112
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312
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1113 If this describes your situation, you need to undefine the
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1114 XSUNTRANSPORT environment variable.
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126
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1115
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312
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1116 *** On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.
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124
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1117
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312
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1118 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r
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1119 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs.
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124
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1120
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312
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1121 *** On Solaris 2.4, Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs
|
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197
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1122 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie.
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124
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1123
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1124 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so
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1125 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines
|
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1126
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1127 #if ThreadedX
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1128 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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1129 #endif
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1130
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1131 to:
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1132
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1133 #if OSMinorVersion < 4
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1134 #if ThreadedX
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1135 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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1136 #endif
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1137 #endif
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1138
|
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1139 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4
|
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1140 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for
|
|
|
1141 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under
|
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|
1142 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the
|
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|
1143 definition for your type of machine and system.
|
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1144
|
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|
1145 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild
|
|
|
1146 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on
|
|
|
1147 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3.
|
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|
1148
|
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|
1149 For multithreaded X to work it necessary to install patch
|
|
|
1150 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need
|
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|
1151 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that
|
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1152 patch.
|
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0
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1153
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124
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1154 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution:
|
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1155 he changed
|
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|
1156 #define ThreadedX YES
|
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|
1157 to
|
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|
1158 #define ThreadedX NO
|
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|
1159 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all
|
|
|
1160 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and
|
|
|
1161 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work.
|
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|
1162
|
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312
|
1163 *** On SunOS 4.1.3, Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft.
|
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124
|
1164
|
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312
|
1165 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4'
|
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|
1166 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise
|
|
|
1167 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which
|
|
|
1168 it can do perfectly well for SunOS).
|
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124
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1169
|
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312
|
1170 *** Mail is lost when sent to local aliases.
|
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0
|
1171
|
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124
|
1172 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the
|
|
|
1173 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be
|
|
|
1174 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually)
|
|
|
1175 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which
|
|
|
1176 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the
|
|
|
1177 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to
|
|
|
1178 obtain the destination address.
|
|
|
1179
|
|
|
1180 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail.
|
|
|
1181 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize
|
|
|
1182 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris
|
|
|
1183 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS
|
|
|
1184 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which
|
|
|
1185 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time
|
|
|
1186 of this writing, these official versions are available:
|
|
|
1187
|
|
|
1188 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail:
|
|
|
1189 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation)
|
|
|
1190 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files)
|
|
|
1191 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs)
|
|
|
1192 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript)
|
|
|
1193
|
|
|
1194 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub:
|
|
|
1195 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz
|
|
|
1196
|
|
312
|
1197 *** Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though
|
|
124
|
1198 the names work properly with other programs on the same system.
|
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197
|
1199 Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.
|
|
|
1200 Gnus can't make contact with the specified host for nntp.
|
|
0
|
1201
|
|
124
|
1202 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared
|
|
|
1203 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the
|
|
|
1204 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a
|
|
|
1205 similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses.
|
|
0
|
1206
|
|
124
|
1207 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with
|
|
|
1208 the nameserver, but Emacs does not.
|
|
|
1209
|
|
|
1210 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you
|
|
|
1211 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs.
|
|
0
|
1212
|
|
124
|
1213 On SunOS 4.1, simply define HAVE_RES_INIT.
|
|
|
1214
|
|
|
1215 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a,
|
|
|
1216 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to
|
|
|
1217 do this is to add to config.h a definition of LIBS_SYSTEM, LIBS_MACHINE
|
|
|
1218 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro
|
|
|
1219 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries,
|
|
|
1220 be careful not to lose the others.
|
|
|
1221
|
|
|
1222 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h:
|
|
|
1223
|
|
|
1224 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv
|
|
|
1225
|
|
|
1226 Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that
|
|
|
1227 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h
|
|
|
1228 again to say this:
|
|
|
1229
|
|
|
1230 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar
|
|
|
1231
|
|
312
|
1232 *** With process-connection-type set to t, each line of subprocess
|
|
|
1233 output is terminated with a ^M, making ange-ftp and GNUS not work.
|
|
|
1234
|
|
|
1235 On SunOS systems, this problem has been seen to be a result of an
|
|
|
1236 incomplete installation of gcc 2.2 which allowed some non-ANSI
|
|
|
1237 compatible include files into the compilation. In particular this
|
|
|
1238 affected virtually all ioctl() calls.
|
|
|
1239
|
|
|
1240
|
|
|
1241 ** Linux
|
|
|
1242 *** `C-z', or `M-x suspend-emacs' hangs instead of suspending.
|
|
|
1243
|
|
|
1244 If you build with `gpm' support on Linux, you cannot suspend XEmacs
|
|
|
1245 because gpm installs a buggy SIGTSTP handler. Either compile with
|
|
|
1246 `--with-gpm=no', or don't suspend XEmacs on the Linux console until
|
|
|
1247 this bug is fixed.
|
|
|
1248
|
|
|
1249 *** With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the
|
|
|
1250 character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead.
|
|
|
1251
|
|
|
1252 One user on a Linux system reported that this problem went away with
|
|
|
1253 installation of a new X server. The failing server was XFree86 3.1.1.
|
|
|
1254 XFree86 3.1.2 works.
|
|
|
1255
|
|
|
1256 *** Slow startup on Linux.
|
|
|
1257
|
|
|
1258 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that
|
|
|
1259 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'.
|
|
|
1260
|
|
|
1261 This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts.
|
|
|
1262 Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to
|
|
|
1263 improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both
|
|
|
1264 networked and non-networked machines.
|
|
|
1265
|
|
|
1266 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root.
|
|
|
1267
|
|
|
1268 **** Networked Case
|
|
|
1269
|
|
|
1270 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both
|
|
|
1271 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this
|
|
|
1272 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name):
|
|
|
1273
|
|
|
1274 127.0.0.1 localhost HOSTNAME
|
|
|
1275
|
|
|
1276 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
|
|
|
1277 lines:
|
|
|
1278
|
|
|
1279 order hosts, bind
|
|
|
1280 multi on
|
|
|
1281
|
|
|
1282 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
|
|
|
1283 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
|
|
|
1284 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections
|
|
|
1285 dynamically allocate ip addresses).
|
|
|
1286
|
|
|
1287 **** Non-Networked Case
|
|
|
1288
|
|
|
1289 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well.
|
|
|
1290 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a
|
|
|
1291 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command
|
|
|
1292 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts'
|
|
|
1293 file is not necessary with this approach.
|
|
|
1294
|
|
|
1295
|
|
|
1296 ** IRIX
|
|
|
1297 *** On Irix, I don't see the toolbar icons and I'm getting lots of
|
|
|
1298 entries in the warnings buffer.
|
|
|
1299
|
|
|
1300 SGI ships a really old Xpm library in /usr/lib which does not work at
|
|
|
1301 all well with XEmacs. The solution is to install your own copy of the
|
|
|
1302 latest version of Xpm somewhere and then use the --site-includes and
|
|
|
1303 --site-libraries flags to tell configure where to find it.
|
|
|
1304
|
|
|
1305 *** Trouble using ptys on IRIX, or running out of ptys.
|
|
|
1306
|
|
|
1307 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to
|
|
|
1308 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
|
|
|
1309 to allocate ptys reliably.
|
|
|
1310
|
|
|
1311 *** Motif dialog boxes lose on Irix.
|
|
|
1312
|
|
|
1313 Larry Auton <lda@control.att.com> writes:
|
|
|
1314 Beware of not specifying
|
|
|
1315
|
|
|
1316 --with-dialogs=athena
|
|
|
1317
|
|
|
1318 if it builds with the motif dialogs [boom!] you're a dead man.
|
|
|
1319
|
|
|
1320 *** Beware of the default image & graphics library on Irix
|
|
|
1321
|
|
|
1322 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
|
|
|
1323
|
|
|
1324 You *have* to compile your own jpeg lib. The one delivered with SGI
|
|
|
1325 systems is a C++ lib, which apparently XEmacs cannot cope with.
|
|
|
1326
|
|
|
1327
|
|
|
1328 ** Digital UNIX/OSF/VMS/Ultrix
|
|
|
1329 *** XEmacs crashes on Digital Unix within font-lock, or when dealing
|
|
|
1330 with large compilation buffers.
|
|
|
1331
|
|
|
1332 The default stack size under Digital Unix is rather small (2M as
|
|
|
1333 opposed to Solaris 8M), hosing the regexp code, which uses alloca()
|
|
|
1334 extensively, overflowing the stack when complex regexps are used.
|
|
|
1335 Workarounds:
|
|
0
|
1336
|
|
312
|
1337 1) Increase your stack size, using `ulimit -s 8192' or a (t)csh
|
|
|
1338 equivalent;
|
|
|
1339
|
|
|
1340 2) Recompile regex.c with REGEX_MALLOC defined.
|
|
|
1341
|
|
|
1342 *** The `Alt' key doesn't behave as `Meta' when running DECwindows.
|
|
|
1343
|
|
|
1344 The default DEC keyboard mapping has the Alt keys set up to generate the
|
|
|
1345 keysym `Multi_key', which has a meaning to xemacs which is distinct from that
|
|
|
1346 of the `Meta_L' and `Meta-R' keysyms. A second problem is that certain keys
|
|
|
1347 have the Mod2 modifier attached to them for no adequately explored reason.
|
|
|
1348 The correct fix is to pass this file to xmodmap upon starting X:
|
|
|
1349
|
|
|
1350 clear mod2
|
|
|
1351 keysym Multi_key = Alt_L
|
|
|
1352 add mod1 = Alt_L
|
|
|
1353 add mod1 = Alt_R
|
|
|
1354
|
|
|
1355 *** The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key.
|
|
|
1356
|
|
|
1357 This shell command should fix it:
|
|
|
1358
|
|
|
1359 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L'
|
|
|
1360
|
|
|
1361 *** `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped
|
|
|
1362 Emacs on.
|
|
|
1363
|
|
|
1364 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information
|
|
|
1365 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using
|
|
|
1366 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work
|
|
|
1367 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on.
|
|
|
1368
|
|
|
1369 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in
|
|
|
1370 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution.
|
|
|
1371
|
|
|
1372 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is
|
|
|
1373 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know.
|
|
|
1374 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included
|
|
|
1375 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host.
|
|
|
1376
|
|
|
1377
|
|
|
1378 ** HP-UX
|
|
|
1379 *** I get complaints about the mapping of my HP keyboard at startup,
|
|
|
1380 but I haven't changed anything.
|
|
|
1381
|
|
|
1382 The default HP keymap is set up to have Mod1 assigned to two different keys:
|
|
|
1383 Meta_L and Mode_switch (even though there is not actually a Mode_switch key on
|
|
|
1384 the keyboard -- it uses an "imaginary" keycode.) There actually is a reason
|
|
|
1385 for this, but it's not a good one. The correct fix is to execute this command
|
|
|
1386 upon starting X:
|
|
|
1387
|
|
|
1388 xmodmap -e 'remove mod1 = Mode_switch'
|
|
124
|
1389
|
|
312
|
1390 *** On HP-UX, you get "poll: Interrupted system call" message in the
|
|
|
1391 window where XEmacs was launched.
|
|
|
1392
|
|
|
1393 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
|
|
|
1394
|
|
|
1395 I get a very strange problem when linking libc.a dynamically: every
|
|
|
1396 event (mouse, keyboard, expose...) results in a "poll: Interrupted
|
|
|
1397 system call" message in the window where XEmacs was
|
|
|
1398 launched. Forcing a static link of libc.a alone by adding
|
|
|
1399 /usr/lib/libc.a at the end of the link line solves this. Note that
|
|
|
1400 my 9.07 build of 19.14b17 and my (old) build of 19.13 both exhibit
|
|
|
1401 the same behaviour. I've tried various hpux patches to no avail. If
|
|
|
1402 this problem cannot be solved before the release date, binary kits
|
|
|
1403 for HP *must* be linked statically against libc, otherwise this
|
|
|
1404 problem will show up. (This is directed at whoever will volunteer
|
|
|
1405 for this kit, as I won't be available to do it, unless 19.14 gets
|
|
|
1406 delayed until mid-june ;-). I think this problem will be an FAQ soon
|
|
|
1407 after the release otherwise.
|
|
|
1408
|
|
|
1409 Note: The above entry is probably not valid for XEmacs 21.0 and
|
|
|
1410 later.
|
|
|
1411
|
|
|
1412 *** The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps
|
|
|
1413 other non-English HP keyboards too).
|
|
|
1414
|
|
|
1415 This is because HP-UX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a
|
|
|
1416 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE
|
|
|
1417 configures the X server.
|
|
|
1418
|
|
|
1419 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
|
|
|
1420 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
|
|
|
1421 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
|
|
|
1422 EOF
|
|
|
1423
|
|
|
1424 xmodmap - << EOF
|
|
|
1425 clear mod1
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1426 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
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1427 add mod1 = Meta_L
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1428 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
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1429 add mod2 = Mode_switch
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1430 EOF
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1431
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1432 *** `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'
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1433
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1434 On HP-UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS
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1435 file system. HP-UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and
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1436 does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default
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1437 value is just ten seconds.
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1438
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1439 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period.
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1440
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1441 *** Shell mode on HP-UX gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".
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1442
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1443 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says:
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1444
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1445 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
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197
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1446 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then tty
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1447 will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places, but tty
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1448 is giving it back 3.
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124
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1449
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197
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1450 The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a
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1451 single word:
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0
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1452
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124
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1453 if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
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1454
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1455 should be changed to:
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1456
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1457 if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
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1458
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1459 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
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1460 and into .login.
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0
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1461
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1462
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312
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1463 ** SCO
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1464 *** Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems.
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0
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1465
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312
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1466 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
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1467 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
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1468 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick
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1469 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with
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1470 GCC.
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124
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1471
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88
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1472
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312
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1473 ** Windows
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1474 *** Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for
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1475 Windows.
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124
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1476
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312
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1477 A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this.
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1478 Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the
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1479 problem.
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308
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1480
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1481
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197
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1482
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124
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1483 * Compatibility problems (with Emacs 18, GNU Emacs, or previous XEmacs/lemacs)
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197
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1484 ==============================================================================
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88
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1485
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312
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1486 *** "Symbol's value as variable is void: unread-command-char".
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197
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1487 "Wrong type argument: arrayp, #<keymap 143 entries>"
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1488 "Wrong type argument: stringp, [#<keypress-event return>]"
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88
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1489
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124
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1490 There are a few incompatible changes in XEmacs, and these are the
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1491 symptoms. Some of the emacs-lisp code you are running needs to be
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1492 updated to be compatible with XEmacs.
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1493
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1494 The code should not treat keymaps as arrays (use `define-key', etc.),
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1495 should not use obsolete variables like `unread-command-char' (use
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197
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1496 `unread-command-events'). Many (most) of the new ways of doing things
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124
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1497 are compatible in GNU Emacs and XEmacs.
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88
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1498
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197
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1499 Modern Emacs packages (Gnus, VM, W3, efs, etc) are written to support
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1500 GNU Emacs and XEmacs. We have provided modified versions of several
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1501 popular emacs packages (dired, etc) which are compatible with this
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1502 version of emacs. Check to make sure you have not set your load-path
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1503 so that your private copies of these packages are being found before
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1504 the versions in the lisp directory.
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124
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1505
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1506 Make sure that your load-path and your $EMACSLOADPATH environment
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1507 variable are not pointing at an Emacs18 lisp directory. This will
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1508 cripple emacs.
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88
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1509
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124
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1510 ** Some packages that worked before now cause the error
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223
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1511 Wrong type argument: arrayp, #<face ... >
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124
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1512
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197
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1513 Code which uses the `face' accessor functions must be recompiled with
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1514 xemacs 19.9 or later. The functions whose callers must be recompiled
|
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1515 are: face-font, face-foreground, face-background,
|
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1516 face-background-pixmap, and face-underline-p. The .elc files
|
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1517 generated by version 19.9 will work in 19.6 and 19.8, but older .elc
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1518 files which contain calls to these functions will not work in 19.9.
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124
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1519
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1520 ** Signaling: (error "Byte code stack underflow (byte compiler bug), pc 38")
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88
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1521
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120
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1522 This error is given when XEmacs 20 is compiled without MULE support
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88
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1523 but is attempting to load a .elc which requires MULE support. The fix
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1524 is to rebytecompile the offending file.
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1525
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124
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1526 ** Signaling: (wrong-type-argument ...) when loading mail-abbrevs
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88
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1527
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197
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1528 The is seen when installing the Insidious Big Brother Data Base (bbdb)
|
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1529 which includes an outdated copy of mail-abbrevs.el. Remove the copy
|
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1530 that comes with bbdb and use the one that comes with XEmacs.
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1531
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144
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1532
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1533 * MULE issues
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197
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1534 =============
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144
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1535
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223
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1536 ** A reminder: XEmacs/Mule work does not currently receive *any*
|
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1537 funding, and all work is done by volunteers. If you think you can
|
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1538 help, please contact the XEmacs maintainers.
|
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1539
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278
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1540 ** XEmacs/Mule doesn't support TTY's satisfactorily.
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223
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1541
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1542 This is a major problem, which we plan to address in a future release
|
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1543 of XEmacs. Basically, XEmacs should have primitives to be told
|
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1544 whether the terminal can handle international output, and which
|
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1545 locale. Also, it should be able to do approximations of characters to
|
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1546 the nearest supported by the locale.
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1547
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197
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1548 ** Internationalized (Asian) Isearch doesn't work.
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144
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1549
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1550 Currently, Isearch doesn't directly support any of the input methods
|
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1551 that are not XIM based (like egg, canna and quail) (and there are
|
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223
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1552 potential problems with XIM version too...). If you're using egg
|
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1553 there is a workaround. Hitting <RET> right after C-s to invoke
|
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1554 Isearch will put Isearch in string mode, where a complete string can
|
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1555 be typed into the minibuffer and then processed by Isearch afterwards.
|
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1556 Since egg is now supported in the minibuffer using string mode you can
|
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1557 now use egg to input your Japanese, Korean or Chinese string, then hit
|
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1558 return to send that to Isearch and then use standard Isearch commands
|
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1559 from there.
|
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144
|
1560
|
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223
|
1561 ** Using egg and mousing around while in 'fence' mode screws up my
|
|
|
1562 buffer.
|
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144
|
1563
|
|
|
1564 Don't do this. The fence modes of egg and canna are currently very
|
|
|
1565 modal, and messing with where they expect point to be and what they
|
|
|
1566 think is the current buffer is just asking for trouble. If you're
|
|
|
1567 lucky they will realize that something is awry, and simply delete the
|
|
|
1568 fence, but worst case can trash other buffers too. We've tried to
|
|
|
1569 protect against this where we can, but there still are many ways to
|
|
|
1570 shoot yourself in the foot. So just finish what you are typing into
|
|
|
1571 the fence before reaching for the mouse.
|
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223
|
1572
|
|
|
1573 ** Not all languages in Quail are supported like Devanagari and Indian
|
|
|
1574 languages, Lao and Tibetan.
|
|
|
1575
|
|
|
1576 Quail requires more work and testing. Although it has been ported to
|
|
|
1577 XEmacs, it works really well for Japanese and for the European
|
|
|
1578 languages.
|
|
|
1579
|
|
|
1580 ** Right-to-left mode is not yet implemented, so languages like
|
|
|
1581 Arabic, Hebrew and Thai don't work.
|
|
|
1582
|
|
|
1583 Getting this right requires more work. It may be implemented in a
|
|
|
1584 future XEmacs version, but don't hold your breath. If you know
|
|
|
1585 someone who is ready to implement this, please let us know.
|
|
|
1586
|
|
|
1587 ** We need more developers and native language testers. It's extremely
|
|
|
1588 difficult (and not particularly productive) to address languages that
|
|
|
1589 nobody is using and testing.
|
|
|
1590
|
|
|
1591 ** The kWnn and cWnn support for Chinese and Korean needs developers
|
|
|
1592 and testers. It probably doesn't work.
|
|
|
1593
|
|
|
1594 ** There are no `native XEmacs' TUTORIALs for any Asian languages,
|
|
|
1595 including Japanese. FSF Emacs and XEmacs tutorials are quite similar,
|
|
|
1596 so it should be sufficient to skim through the differences and apply
|
|
|
1597 them to the Japanese version.
|
|
|
1598
|
|
|
1599 ** We only have localized menus translated for Japanese, and the
|
|
|
1600 Japanese menus are developing bitrot (the Mule menu appears in
|
|
|
1601 English).
|
|
|
1602
|
|
|
1603 ** XIM is untested for any language other than Japanese.
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