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8 their respective relevance for XEmacs, but may have not succeeded
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21 XEmacs provides (e.g. `C-s').
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25 WATCH OUT for your init file! (~/.xemacs/init.el or ~/.emacs) If
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26 you observe strange problems, invoke XEmacs with the `-vanilla'
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27 option and see if you can repeat the problem.
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29 Note that most of the problems described here manifest at RUN
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30 time, even those described as BUILD problems. It is quite unusual
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31 for a released XEmacs to fail to build. So a "build problem"
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32 requires you to tweak the build environment, then rebuild XEmacs.
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33 A "runtime problem" is one that can be fixed by proper
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34 configuration of the existing build. Compatibility problems and
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35 Mule issues are generally runtime problems, but are treated
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36 separately for convenience.
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44 Much general information is in INSTALL. If it's covered in
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45 INSTALL, we don't repeat it here.
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47 *** How do I configure to get the buffer tabs/progress bars?
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49 These features depend on support for "native widgets". Use the
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50 --with-widgets option to configure. Configuration of widgets is
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51 automatic for "modern" toolkits (MS Windows, GTK, and Motif), but if
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52 you are using Xt and the Athena widgets, you will probably want to
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53 specify a "3d" widget set. See configure --usage, and don't forget to
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54 install the corresponding development libraries.
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55
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56 *** I know I have libfoo installed, but configure doesn't find it.
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58 Typical of Linux systems with package managers. To link with a shared
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59 library, you only need the shared library. To compile objects that
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60 link with it, you need the headers---and distros don't provide them with
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61 the libraries. You need the additional "development" package, too.
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63 *** Don't use -O2 with gcc 2.8.1 and egcs 1.0 under SPARC architectures
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64 without also using `-fno-schedule-insns'.
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66 gcc will generate incorrect code otherwise, typically resulting in
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67 crashes in the function skip-syntax-backward.
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71 There have been reports of egcs-1.1 not compiling XEmacs correctly on
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72 Alpha Linux. There have also been reports that egcs-1.0.3a is O.K.
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77 gcc will generate incorrect code otherwise. This bug is present in at
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78 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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79 later. This bug is O/S independent, but is limited to x86 architectures.
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81 This problem is known to be fixed in egcs (or pgcc) 1.0 or later.
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84 Net-released ones) have a bug with the same `problem signature'.
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86 If you're lucky, you'll get an error while compiling that looks like:
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88 event-stream.c:3189: internal error--unrecognizable insn:
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89 (insn 256 14 15 (set (reg/v:SI 24)
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90 (minus:SI (reg/v:SI 25)
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91 (const_int 2))) -1 (insn_list 11 (nil))
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92 (nil))
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93 0 0 [main]
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95 If you're unlucky, your code will simply execute incorrectly.
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97 *** Don't use gcc-2.95.2 with -mcpu=ultrasparc on Solaris 2.6.
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99 gcc will assume a 64-bit operating system, even though you've
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100 merely told it to assume a 64-bit instruction set.
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106 present in gcc 2.7.2.3. There have been no reports to indicate the
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107 bug is present in egcs 1.0 (or pgcc 1.0) or later. This bug is O/S
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108 independent, but limited to x86 architectures.
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110 This problem is known to be fixed in egcs (or pgcc) 1.0 or later.
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112 *** When using gcc, you get the error message "undefined symbol __fixunsdfsi".
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113 When using gcc, you get the error message "undefined symbol __main".
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115 This means that you need to link with the gcc library. It may be called
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116 "gcc-gnulib" or "libgcc.a"; figure out where it is, and define LIB_GCC in
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117 config.h to point to it.
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118
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119 It may also work to use the GCC version of `ld' instead of the standard one.
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121 *** Excessive optimization with pgcc can break XEmacs
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123 It has been reported on some systems that compiling with -O6 can lead
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124 to XEmacs failures. The workaround is to use a lower optimization
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125 level. -O2 and -O4 have been tested extensively.
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128 of libc. Snapshots near the release of pgcc-1.0 have been tested
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129 extensively and no sign of breakage has been seen on systems using
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130 glibc-2.
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134 This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version
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135 had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly.
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139 This means that you are trying to link emacs against the X11r4 version of
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140 libXt.a, but you have compiled either Emacs or the code in the lwlib
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141 subdirectory with the X11r5 header files. That doesn't work.
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143 Remember, you can't compile lwlib for r4 and emacs for r5, or vice versa.
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144 They must be in sync.
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147 or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127"
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148 or, temacs runs and dumps xemacs, but xemacs totally fails to work.
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149 or, temacs gets errors dumping xemacs
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150
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151 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be
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152 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are binary
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153 files and can contain all 256 byte values.
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154
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155 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs. It
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156 typically truncates "lines". (this does not apply to GNU shar, which
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157 uses uuencode to encode binary files.)
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158
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159 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its nonprinting
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160 characters, you can fix them by running:
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161
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162 make all-elc
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164 This will rebuild all the needed .elc files.
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168 XFree86 installs a very old version of libz.a by default ahead of where
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169 more modern version of libz might be installed. This will cause problems
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170 when attempting to link against libMagick. The fix is to remove the old
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171 libz.a in the X11 binary directory.
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176 Motif is the X11 version of the Gnus torture test: if there's a way to
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177 crash, Motif will find it. With the open source release of Motif, it
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178 seems like a good idea to collect all Motif-related issues in one
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179 place.
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180
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181 You should also look in your OS's section, as it may not be Motif's
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182 fault.
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183
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184 *** XEmacs crashes on exit (#1).
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185
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186 The backtrace is something like:
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188 (gdb) where
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189 #0 0xfeb9a480 in _libc_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
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190 #1 0x000b0388 in fatal_error_signal ()
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191 #2 <signal handler called>
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192 #3 YowIter (ht=0xb, id=0x0, v=0x74682074, client=0x47e3c0)
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193 at ImageCache.c:1159
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194 #4 0xff26cc5c in _LTHashTableForEachItem (ht=0x4725e8,
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195 iter=0xff26dda0 <YowIter>, ClientData=0x47e3c0) at Hash.c:671
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196 #5 0xff2a4664 in destroy (w=0x496550) at Screen.c:352
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197 #6 0xfef92118 in Phase2Destroy () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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198 #7 0xfef91940 in Recursive () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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199 #8 0xfef91e44 in XtPhase2Destroy () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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200 #9 0xfef91ae8 in _XtDoPhase2Destroy () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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201 #10 0xfef918cc in XtDestroyWidget () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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202 #11 0xfef91438 in CloseDisplay () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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203 #12 0xfef91394 in XtCloseDisplay () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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204 #13 0x0025b8b0 in x_delete_device ()
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205 #14 0x000940b0 in delete_device_internal ()
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206 #15 0x000806a0 in delete_console_internal ()
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207
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208 This is known to happen with Lesstif version 0.93.36. Similar
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209 backtraces have also been observed on HP/UX and Solaris. There is a
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210 patch for Lesstif. (This is not a solution; it just stops the crash.
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211 It may or may not be harmless, but "it works for the author".)
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212
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213 Note that this backtrace looks a lot like the one in the next item.
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214 However, this one is invulnerable to the Solaris patches mentioned there.
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216 Frank McIngvale <frankm@hiwaay.net> says:
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218 Ok, 0.93.34 works, and I tracked down the crash to a section
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219 marked "experimental" in 0.93.36. Patch attached, "works for me".
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221 diff -u -r lesstif-0.93.36/lib/Xm/ImageCache.c lesstif-0.93.36-mod/lib/Xm/ImageCache.c
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222 --- lesstif-0.93.36/lib/Xm/ImageCache.c 2002-08-05 14:53:24.000000000 -0500
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223 +++ lesstif-0.93.36-mod/lib/Xm/ImageCache.c 2002-11-11 11:13:12.000000000 -0600
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224 @@ -1166,5 +1166,4 @@
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225 DEBUGOUT(_LtDebug0(__FILE__, NULL, "_LtImageCacheScreenDestroy (XmGetPixmapByDepth) %p\n",
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226 s));
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228 - (void) _LTHashTableForEachItem(PixmapCache, YowIter, (XtPointer)s);
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229 }
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230
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231 *** XEmacs crashes on exit (#2)
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232
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233 Especially frequent with multiple frames. Crashes that produce C
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234 backtraces like this:
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236 #0 0xfec9a118 in _libc_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
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237 #1 0x77f48 in fatal_error_signal (sig=11)
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238 at /codes/rpluim/xemacs-21.4/src/emacs.c:539
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239 #2 <signal handler called>
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240 #3 0xfee929f4 in XFindContext () from /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so.4
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241 #4 0xfee92930 in XFindContext () from /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so.4
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242 #5 0xff297e54 in DisplayDestroy () from /usr/dt/lib/libXm.so.4
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243 #6 0xfefbece0 in XtCallCallbackList () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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244 #7 0xfefc486c in XtPhase2Destroy () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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245 #8 0xfefc45d0 in _XtDoPhase2Destroy () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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246 #9 0xfefc43b4 in XtDestroyWidget () from /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
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247 #10 0x15cf9c in x_delete_device (d=0x523f00)
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248
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249 are caused by buggy Motif libraries. Installing the following patches
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250 has been reported to solve the problem on Solaris 2.7:
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252 107081-40 107656-07
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254 For information (although they have not been confirmed to work), the
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255 equivalent patches for Solaris 2.8 are:
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257 108940-33 108652-25
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258
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259 *** On HP-UX 11.0 XEmacs causes excessive X11 errors when running.
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260 (also appears on AIX as reported in comp.emacs.xemacs)
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261
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262 Marcus Thiessel <marcus@xemacs.org>
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264 Unfortunately, XEmacs releases prior to 21.0 don't work with
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265 Motif2.1. It will compile but you will get excessive X11 errors like
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266
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267 xemacs: X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
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268
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269 and finally XEmacs gets killed. A workaround is to use the
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270 Motif1.2_R6 libraries. You can the following line to your call to
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271 configure:
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273 --x-libraries="/usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6 -L/usr/lib/X11R6"
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275 Make sure /usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6/libXm.sl is a link to
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276 /usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6/libXm.3.
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277
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278 *** On HP-UX 11.0: Object "" does not have windowed ancestor
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280 Marcus Thiessel <marcus@xemacs.org>
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281
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282 XEmacs dies without core file and reports:
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284 Error: Object "" does not have windowed ancestor.
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285
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286 This is a bug. Please apply the patch PHSS_19964 (check if
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287 superseded). The other alternative is to link with Motif1.2_R6 (see
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288 previous item).
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289
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290 *** Motif dialog boxes lose on Irix.
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291
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292 Larry Auton <lda@control.att.com> writes:
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293 Beware of not specifying
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294
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295 --with-dialogs=athena
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296
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297 if it builds with the motif dialogs [boom!] you're a dead man.
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301 *** IBM compiler fails: "The character # is not a valid C source character."
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303 Most recently observed in 21.5.9, due to USE_KKCC ifdefs (they just
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304 happen to tickle the implementation).
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305
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306 Valdis Kletnieks says:
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307
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308 The problem is that IBM defines a *MACRO* called 'memcpy', and we
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309 have stuck a #ifdef/#endif inside the macro call. As a workaround,
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310 try adding '-U__STR__' to your CFLAGS - this will cause string.h to
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311 not do a #define for strcpy() to __strcpy() - it uses this for
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312 automatic inlining support.
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313
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314 (For the record, the same issue affects a number of other functions
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315 defined in string.h - basically anything the compiler knows how to
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316 inline.)
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317
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319
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320 *** The libXt shipped with AIX 4.3 up to 4.3.2 is broken. This causes
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321 xemacs -nw to fail in various ways. The official APAR is this:
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322
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323 APAR NUMBER: <IX89470> RESOLVED AS: PROGRAM ERROR
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324
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325 ABSTRACT:
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326 <IX89470>: LIBXT.A INCORRECT HANDLING OF EXCEPTIONS IN XTAPPADDINPUT
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327
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328 The solution is to install X11.base.lib at version >=4.3.2.5.
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332 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h
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333 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found.
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334
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335 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d
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336 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install
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337 X11Dev... with smit.
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338
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339 *** On AIX 4.1.2, linker error messages such as
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340 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table
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341 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o.
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342
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343 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing
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344 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where
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345 you build Emacs:
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346
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348 chmod 664 libIM.a
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349 ranlib libIM.a
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350
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351 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in
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352 Makefile).
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354 *** Excessive optimization on AIX 4.2 can lead to compiler failure.
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356 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
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357 At least at the b34 level, and the latest-and-greatest IBM xlc
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358 (3.1.4.4), there are problems with -O3. I haven't investigated
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359 further.
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363 *** Dumping error when using GNU binutils / GNU ld on a Sun.
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364
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365 Errors similar to the following:
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367 Dumping under the name xemacs unexec():
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368 dldump(/space/rpluim/xemacs-obj/src/xemacs): ld.so.1: ./temacs:
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369 fatal: /space/rpluim/xemacs-obj/src/xemacs: unknown dynamic entry:
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374 In XEmacs 21.2 or later, configure using the new portable dumper
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375 (--pdump).
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377 Alternatively, you can link using the Sun version of ld, which is
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378 normally held in /usr/ccs/bin. This can be done by one of:
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379
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380 - building gcc with these configure flags:
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381 configure --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as
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382
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383 - adding -B/usr/ccs/bin/ to CFLAGS used to configure XEmacs
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384 (Note: The trailing '/' there is significant.)
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385
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386 - uninstalling GNU ld.
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388 The Solaris2 FAQ claims:
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390 When you install gcc, don't make the mistake of installing
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391 GNU binutils or GNU libc, they are not as capable as their
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392 counterparts you get with Solaris 2.x.
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393
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394 *** Link failure when using acc on a Sun.
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395
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396 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as
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397
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398 /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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399
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400 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc.
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401
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402 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we
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403 cannot easily arrange to supply them.
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404
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405 *** Problems finding X11 libraries on Solaris with Openwindows
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406
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407 Some users have reported problems in this area. The reported solution
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408 is to define the environment variable OPENWINHOME, even if you must set
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409 it to `/usr/openwin'.
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410
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411 *** Sed problems on Solaris 2.5
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412
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413 There have been reports of Sun sed truncating very lines in the
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414 Makefile during configuration. The workaround is to use GNU sed or,
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415 even better, think of a better way to generate Makefile, and send us a
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416 patch. :-)
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417
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418 *** On Solaris 2 I get undefined symbols from libcurses.a.
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419
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420 You probably have /usr/ucblib/ on your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Do the link with
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421 LD_LIBRARY_PATH unset. Generally, avoid using any ucb* stuff when
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422 building XEmacs.
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423
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424 *** On Solaris 2 I cannot make alloc.o, glyphs.o or process.o.
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425
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426 The SparcWorks C compiler may have difficulty building those modules
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427 with optimization level -xO4. Try using only "-fast" optimization
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428 for just those modules. (Or use gcc).
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429
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430 *** Solaris 2.3 /bin/sh coredumps during configuration.
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431
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432 This only occurs if you have LANG != C. This is a known bug with
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433 /bin/sh fixed by installing Patch-ID# 101613-01. Or, you can use
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434 bash, as a workaround.
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435
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436 *** On SunOS, you get linker errors
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439 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
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441 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
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442 or link libXmu statically.
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443
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444 *** On Sunos 4, you get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version.
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445
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446 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant
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447 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete
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448 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory.
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449
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450 *** Undefined symbols when linking on Sunos 4.1.
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452 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace,
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453 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after
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454 -lXaw in the command that links temacs.
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456 This problem seems to arise only when the international language
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457 extensions to X11R5 are installed.
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458
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459 *** On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld:
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461 /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment
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463 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.
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464
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465 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.
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466
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467 *** SunOS 4.1.2: undefined symbol _get_wmShellWidgetClass
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468
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469 Apparently the version of libXmu.so.a that Sun ships is hosed: it's missing
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470 some stuff that is in libXmu.a (the static version). Sun has a patch for
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471 this, but a workaround is to use the static version of libXmu, by changing
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472 the link command from "-lXmu" to "-Bstatic -lXmu -Bdynamic". If you have
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473 OpenWindows 3.0, ask Sun for these patches:
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474 100512-02 4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 libXt Jumbo patch
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475 100573-03 4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 undefined symbols with shared libXmu
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476
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477 *** Random other SunOS 4.1.[12] link errors.
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478
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479 The X headers and libraries that Sun ships in /usr/{include,lib}/X11 are
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480 broken. Use the ones in /usr/openwin/{include,lib} instead.
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481
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482 ** Linux
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483 *** Under Linux, you get "too many arguments to function `getpgrp'".
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484
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485 You have probably installed LessTiff under `/usr/local' and `libXm.so'
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486 could not be found when linking `getpgrp()' test program, making XEmacs
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487 think that `getpgrp()' takes an argument. Try adding `/usr/local/lib'
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488 in `/etc/ld.so.conf' and run `ldconfig'. Then run XEmacs's `configure'
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489 again. As with all problems of this type, reading the config.log file
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490 generated from configure and seeing the log of how the test failed can
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491 prove enlightening.
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492
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493 *** `Error: No ExtNode to pop!' on Linux systems with Lesstif.
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495 This error message has been observed with lesstif-0.75a. It does not
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496 appear to cause any harm.
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497
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498 *** xemacs: can't resolve symbol '__malloc_hook'
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499
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500 This is a Linux problem where you've compiled the XEmacs binary on a libc
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501 5.4 with version higher than 5.4.19 and attempted to run the binary against
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502 an earlier version. The solution is to upgrade your old library.
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503
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504 ** IRIX
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506 *** More coredumping in Irix (6.5 known to be vulnerable)
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507
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508 No fix is known yet. Here's the best information we have:
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509
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510 Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> writes:
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511
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512 Were xemacs and [any 3rd party, locally-compiled] libraries [you use]
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513 all compiled with the same ABI ( -o32, -n32, -64) and
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514 mips2/mips3/mips4 flags, and are they appropriate for the machine in
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515 question? I know the IP30 implies an Octane, so it should be an R10K
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516 chipset and above such nonsense, but I've seen the most astoundingly
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517 bizzare crashes when somebody managed to compile with -mips4 and get
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518 it to run on an R4400 or R5K system. ;)
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519
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520 Also, since you're using gcc, try re-running fixincludes and *then*
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521 rebuilding xemacs and [any] libraries - mismatched headers can do that
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522 sort of thing to you with little or no clue what's wrong (often you
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523 get screwed when one routine does an malloc(sizeof(foo_struct)) and
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524 passes the result to something that things foo_struct is a bit bigger,
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525 trashing memory....
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526
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527 Here's typical crash backtrace. With --pdump, this occurs usually at
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528 startup under X windows and xemacs -nw at least starts, while without
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529 --pdump a similar crash is observed during build.
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530
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531 #0 0x0fa460b8 in kill () at regcomp.c:637
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532 637 regcomp.c: No such file or directory.
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533 in regcomp.c
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534 (gdb) where
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535 #0 0x0fa460b8 in kill () at regcomp.c:637
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536 #1 0x10087f34 in fatal_error_signal ()
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537 (gdb) quit
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538
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539 This is confusing because there is no such file in the XEmacs
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540 distribution. This is seen on (at least) the following configurations:
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541
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542 uname -a: IRIX64 oct202 6.5 01091821 IP30
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543 XEmacs 21.4.9 "Informed Management" configured for `mips-sgi-irix6.5'.
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544 XEmacs 21.5-b9 "brussels sprouts" configured for `mips-sgi-irix6.5'.
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545
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452
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546 *** On Irix 6.5, the MIPSpro compiler gets an internal compiler error
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547
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548 The MIPSpro Compiler (at least version 7.2.1) can't seem to handle the
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549 union type properly, and fails to compile src/glyphs.c. To avoid this
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550 problem, always build ---use-union-type=no (but that's the default, so
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551 you should only see this problem if you're an XEmacs maintainer).
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552
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554
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555 Darrell Kindred <dkindred@cmu.edu> writes:
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556 There are a couple of problems [with use of -rpath with Irix ld], though:
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557
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558 1. The ld in IRIX 5.3 ignores all but the last -rpath
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559 spec, so the patched configure spits out a warning
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560 if --x-libraries or --site-runtime-libraries are
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561 specified under irix 5.x, and it only adds -rpath
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562 entries for the --site-runtime-libraries. This bug was
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563 fixed sometime between 5.3 and 6.2.
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564
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565 2. IRIX gcc 2.7.2 doesn't accept -rpath directly, so
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566 it would have to be prefixed by -Xlinker or "-Wl,".
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567 This would be fine, except that configure compiles with
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568 ${CC-cc} $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS ...
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569 rather than quoting $LDFLAGS with prefix-args, like
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570 src/Makefile does. So if you specify --x-libraries
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571 or --site-runtime-libraries, you must use --use-gcc=no,
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572 or configure will fail.
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573
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574 *** On Irix 6.3, the SGI ld quits with segmentation fault when linking temacs
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575
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576 This occurs if you use the SGI linker version 7.1. Installing the
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577 patch SG0001872 fixes this problem.
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578
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579 *** On Irix 6.0, make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi
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580
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581 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o"
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582 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run,
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583 find that string, and take out the spaces.
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584
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585 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem.
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586
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587 *** On Irix 5.2, unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h.
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588
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589 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the
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590 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset
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591 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy
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592 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of
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593 syms.h.
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594
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596
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598 A problem noted by myself and others (I've lost the references) was
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599 that XEmacs coredumped when the cut or copy toolbar buttons were
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600 pressed. This has been fixed by loading the SGI patchset (Feb 98)
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601 without having to recompile XEmacs.
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602
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603 My versions are XEmacs 20.3 (problem first noted in 19.15) and IRIX
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604 6.2, compiled using -n32. I'd guess that the relevant individual
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605 patch was "SG0002580: multiple fixes for X libraries". SGI recommends
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606 that the complete patch set be installed rather than parts of it.
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607
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608 ** Digital UNIX/OSF/VMS
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609 *** On Digital UNIX, the DEC C compiler might have a problem compiling
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610 some files.
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611
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612 In particular, src/extents.c and src/faces.c might cause the DEC C
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613 compiler to abort. When this happens: cd src, compile the files by
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614 hand, cd .., and redo the "make" command. When recompiling the files by
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615 hand, use the old C compiler for the following versions of Digital UNIX:
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616 - V3.n: Remove "-migrate" from the compile command.
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617 - V4.n: Add "-oldc" to the compile command.
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618
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619 A related compiler bug has been fixed by the DEC compiler team. The
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620 new versions of the compiler should run fine.
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621
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622 *** Under some versions of OSF XEmacs runs fine if built without
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623 optimization but will crash randomly if built with optimization.
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624
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625 Using 'cc -g' is not sufficient to eliminate all optimization. Try
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626 'cc -g -O0' instead.
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627
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628 *** Compilation errors on VMS.
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629
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630 Sorry, XEmacs does not work under VMS. You might consider working on
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631 the port if you really want to have XEmacs work under VMS.
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632
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633 ** HP-UX
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634 *** On HPUX, the HP C compiler might have a problem compiling some files
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635 with optimization.
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636
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637 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
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638
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639 Had to drop once again to level 2 optimization, at least to
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640 compile lstream.c. Otherwise, I get a "variable is void: \if"
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641 problem while dumping (this is a problem I already reported
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642 with vanilla hpux 10.01 and 9.07, which went away after
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643 applying patches for the C compiler). Trouble is I still
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644 haven't found the same patch for hpux 10.10, and I don't
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645 remember the patch numbers. I think potential XEmacs builders
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646 on HP should be warned about this.
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647
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373
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648 *** I don't have `xmkmf' and `imake' on my HP.
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649
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650 You can get these standard X tools by anonymous FTP to
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651 hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com. Essentially all X programs need these.
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652
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653 *** On HP-UX, problems with make
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655 Marcus Thiessel <marcus@xemacs.org>
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656
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657 Some releases of XEmacs (e.g. 20.4) require GNU make to build
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658 successfully. You don't need GNU make when building 21.x.
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659
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660 *** On HP-UX 9.05 XEmacs won't compile or coredump during the build.
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661
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662 Marcus Thiessel <marcus@xemacs.org>
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663
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664 This might be a sed problem. For your own safety make sure to use
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665 GNU sed while dumping XEmacs.
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666
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667
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668 ** SCO OpenServer
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669 *** Native cc on SCO OpenServer 5 is now OK. Icc may still throw you
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670 a curve. Here is what Robert Lipe <robertl@arnet.com> says:
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672 Unlike XEmacs 19.13, building with the native cc on SCO OpenServer 5
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673 now produces a functional binary. I will typically build this
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674 configuration for COFF with:
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675
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676 /path_to_xemacs_source/configure --with-gcc=no \
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677 --site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
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678 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas
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679
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680 This version now supports ELF builds. I highly recommend this to
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681 reduce the in-core footprint of XEmacs. This is now how I compile
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682 all my test releases. Build it like this:
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683
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684 /path_to_XEmacs_source/configure --with-gcc=no \
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685 --site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
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686 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas --dynamic
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687
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454
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688 The compiler known as icc [ supplied with the OpenServer 5 Development
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689 System ] generates a working binary, but it takes forever to generate
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690 XEmacs. ICC also whines more about the code than /bin/cc does. I do
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691 believe all its whining is legitimate, however. Note that you do
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692 have to 'cd src ; make LD=icc' to avoid linker errors.
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693
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694 The way I handle the build procedure is:
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695
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696 /path_to_XEmacs_source/configure --with-gcc=no \
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697 --site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
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698 --with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas --dynamic --compiler="icc"
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699
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700 NOTE I have the xpm, xface, and audio libraries and includes in
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701 /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include. If you don't have these,
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702 don't include the "--with-*" arguments in any of my examples.
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703
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454
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704 In previous versions of XEmacs, you had to override the defaults while
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705 compiling font-lock.o and extents.o when building with icc. This seems
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706 to no longer be true, but I'm including this old information in case it
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707 resurfaces. The process I used was:
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708
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709 make -k
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710 [ procure pizza, beer, repeat ]
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711 cd src
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712 make CC="icc -W0,-mP1COPT_max_tree_size=3000" font-lock.o extents.o
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713 make LD=icc
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714
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715 If you want sound support, get the tls566 supplement from
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716 ftp.sco.com:/TLS or any of its mirrors. It works just groovy
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717 with XEmacs.
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718
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719 The M-x manual-entry is known not to work. If you know Lisp and would
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720 like help in making it work, e-mail me at <robertl@dgii.com>.
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721 (UNCHECKED for 19.15 -- it might work).
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722
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723 In earlier releases, gnuserv/gnuclient/gnudoit would open a frame
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724 just fine, but the client would lock up and the server would
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454
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725 terminate when you used C-x # to close the frame. This is now
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726 fixed in XEmacs.
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727
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728 In etc/ there are two files of note. emacskeys.sco and emacsstrs.sco.
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729 The comments at the top of emacskeys.sco describe its function, and
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730 the emacstrs.sco is a suitable candidate for /usr/lib/keyboard/strings
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731 to take advantage of the keyboard map in emacskeys.sco.
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732
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733 Note: Much of the above entry is probably not valid for XEmacs 21.0
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734 and later.
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735
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736 ** Cygwin
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737
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738 *** In general use etc/check_cygwin_setup.sh to trap environment problems.
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739
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740 The script etc/check_cygwin_setup.sh will attempt to detect whether
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524
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741 you have a suitable environment for building. This script may not work
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392
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742 correctly if you are using ash instead of bash (see below).
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743
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524
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744 *** Syntax errors running configure scripts, make failing with exit code 127
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745 in inexplicable situations, etc.
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746
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524
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747 This may be because you are using the default cygwin shell. The
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748 default cygwin shell (/bin/sh.exe) is ash which appears to work in
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749 most circumstances but has some weird failure modes. You need to
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750 replace the symlink with bash.exe.
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751
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524
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752 *** Lots of compile errors, esp. on lines containing macro definitions
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753 terminated by backslashes.
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754
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524
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755 Your partition holding the source files is mounted binary. It needs
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756 to be mounted text. (This will not screw up any binary files because
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757 the Cygwin utilities specify explicitly whether they want binary or
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758 text mode when working with source vs. binary files, which overrides
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759 the mount type.) To fix this, you just need to run the appropriate
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760 mount command once -- afterwards, the settings are remembered in the
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761 registry.
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762
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524
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763 *** Errors from make like /c:not found.
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764
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524
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765 Make sure you set the environment variable MAKE_MODE to UNIX in your
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766 .bashrc, Control Panel (Windows 2000/NT), or AUTOEXEC.BAT (Windows
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767 98/95).
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392
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768
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769 *** The info files will not build.
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770
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524
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771 makeinfo that ships with Cygwin (all versions) doesn't work. You need to
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392
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772 obtain makeinfo from somewhere or build it yourself.
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773
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524
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774 *** XEmacs hangs while attempting to rebuild the .elc files.
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775
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524
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776 Check to make sure you're not configuring with rel-alloc. The relocating
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777 allocator does not currently work under Cygwin due to bugs in Cygwin's
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778 mmap().
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779
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524
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780 *** Trying to build with X, but X11 not detected.
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781
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782 This is usually because xmkmf is not in your path or because you are
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783 using the default cygwin shell. (See above.)
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333
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784
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785
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786 * Problems with running XEmacs
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787 ==============================
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788 ** General
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1042
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789 *** At startup I get a warning on stderr about missing charsets:
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790
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791 Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
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792
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793 You need to specify appropriate charsets for your locale (usually the
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1056
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794 value of the LANG environment variable) in .Xresources. See
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795 etc/Emacs.ad for the relevant resources (mostly menubar fonts and
|
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796 fontsets). Do not edit this file, it's purely informative.
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797
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798 If you have no satisfactory fonts for iso-8859-1, XEmacs will crash.
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799
|
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800 It looks like XFree86 4.x (the usual server on Linux and *BSD) has
|
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801 some braindamage where .UTF-8 locales will always generate this
|
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802 message, because the XFree86 (font)server doesn't know that UTF-8 will
|
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803 use the ISO10646-1 font registry (or a Cmap or something).
|
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804
|
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805 If you are not using a .UTF-8 locale and see this warning for a
|
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806 character set not listed in the default in Emacs.ad, please let
|
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1042
|
807 xemacs-beta@xemacs.org know about it, so we can add fonts to the
|
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808 appropriate fontsets and stifle this warning. (Unfortunately it's
|
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809 buried in Xlib, so we can't easily get rid of it otherwise.)
|
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810
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892
|
811 *** Starting with 21.4.x, killing text is absurdly slow.
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812
|
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|
813 See FAQ Q3.10.6. Should be available on the web near
|
|
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814 http://www.xemacs.org/faq/xemacs-faq.html#SEC160.
|
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815
|
|
835
|
816 *** Whenever I try to retrieve a remote file, I have problems.
|
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|
817
|
|
|
818 A typical error: FTP Error: USER request failed; 500 AUTH not understood.
|
|
|
819 Thanks to giacomo boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> on comp.emacs.xemacs:
|
|
|
820
|
|
|
821 tell your ftp client to not attempt AUTH authentication (or do not
|
|
|
822 use FTP servers that don't understand AUTH)
|
|
|
823
|
|
|
824 and notes that you need to add an element (often "-u") to
|
|
|
825 `efs-ftp-program-args'. Use M-x customize-variable, and verify the
|
|
|
826 needed flag with `man ftp' or other local documentation.
|
|
|
827
|
|
464
|
828 *** gnuserv is running, some clients can connect, but others cannot.
|
|
|
829
|
|
|
830 The code in gnuslib.c respects the value of TMPDIR. If the server and
|
|
|
831 the client have different values in their environment, you lose.
|
|
|
832 One program known to set TMPDIR and manifest this problem is exmh.
|
|
|
833 You can defeat the use of TMPDIR by unsetting USE_TMPDIR at the top of
|
|
|
834 gnuserv.h at build time.
|
|
|
835
|
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373
|
836 *** C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs.
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124
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837
|
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838 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even
|
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197
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839 though the system itself is capable of it. Try using a different
|
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840 shell.
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124
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841
|
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373
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842 *** You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters.
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124
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843
|
|
|
844 Emacs has traditionally used Control-H for help; unfortunately this
|
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424
|
845 interferes with its use as Backspace on TTY's. As of XEmacs 21,
|
|
|
846 XEmacs looks at the "erase" setting of TTY structures and maps C-h to
|
|
|
847 backspace when erase is set to C-h. This is sort of a special hack,
|
|
|
848 but it makes it possible for you to use the standard:
|
|
|
849
|
|
|
850 stty erase ^H
|
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355
|
851
|
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424
|
852 to get your backspace key to erase characters. The erase setting is
|
|
|
853 recorded in the Lisp variable `tty-erase-char', which you can use to
|
|
|
854 tune the settings in your .emacs.
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124
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855
|
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424
|
856 A major drawback of this is that when C-h becomes backspace, it no
|
|
|
857 longer invokes help. In that case, you need to use f1 for help, or
|
|
|
858 bind another key. An example of the latter is the following code,
|
|
|
859 which moves help to Meta-? (ESC ?):
|
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124
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860
|
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424
|
861 (global-set-key "\M-?" 'help-command)
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124
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862
|
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373
|
863 *** Mail agents (VM, Gnus, rmail) cannot get new mail
|
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197
|
864
|
|
|
865 rmail and VM get new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program
|
|
|
866 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using the
|
|
|
867 protocol defined by /bin/mail.
|
|
|
868
|
|
|
869 There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses
|
|
|
870 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file;
|
|
|
871 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do
|
|
|
872 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining, the
|
|
|
873 macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes. IF
|
|
|
874 YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR SYSTEM,
|
|
|
875 YOU CAN LOSE MAIL!
|
|
|
876
|
|
|
877 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
|
|
|
878 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
|
|
|
879 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
|
|
|
880 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing
|
|
|
881 the make install.
|
|
|
882
|
|
|
883 chgrp mail movemail
|
|
|
884 chmod 2755 movemail
|
|
|
885
|
|
|
886 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an
|
|
|
887 installation directory which is usually under /usr/local/lib. The
|
|
|
888 installed copy of movemail is usually in the directory
|
|
|
889 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and
|
|
|
890 mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build
|
|
|
891 directory copy is ineffective.
|
|
|
892
|
|
373
|
893 *** VM appears to hang in large folders.
|
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124
|
894
|
|
|
895 This is normal (trust us) when upgrading to VM-6.22 from earlier
|
|
|
896 versions. Let VM finish what it is doing and all will be well.
|
|
|
897
|
|
373
|
898 *** Changes made to .el files do not take effect.
|
|
0
|
899
|
|
197
|
900 You may have forgotten to recompile them into .elc files. Then the
|
|
|
901 old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes will not be seen. To
|
|
|
902 fix this, do `M-x byte-recompile-directory' and specify the directory
|
|
|
903 that contains the Lisp files.
|
|
0
|
904
|
|
197
|
905 Note that you will get a warning when loading a .elc file that is
|
|
|
906 older than the corresponding .el file.
|
|
0
|
907
|
|
373
|
908 *** Things which should be bold or italic (such as the initial
|
|
197
|
909 copyright notice) are not.
|
|
0
|
910
|
|
197
|
911 The fonts of the "bold" and "italic" faces are generated from the font
|
|
|
912 of the "default" face; in this way, your bold and italic fonts will
|
|
|
913 have the appropriate size and family. However, emacs can only be
|
|
|
914 clever in this way if you have specified the default font using the
|
|
|
915 XLFD (X Logical Font Description) format, which looks like
|
|
0
|
916
|
|
|
917 *-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
|
|
|
918
|
|
197
|
919 if you use any of the other, less strict font name formats, some of
|
|
|
920 which look like:
|
|
|
921
|
|
0
|
922 lucidasanstypewriter-12
|
|
|
923 and fixed
|
|
|
924 and 9x13
|
|
|
925
|
|
|
926 then emacs won't be able to guess the names of the "bold" and "italic"
|
|
|
927 versions. All X fonts can be referred to via XLFD-style names, so you
|
|
|
928 should use those forms. See the man pages for X(1), xlsfonts(1), and
|
|
|
929 xfontsel(1).
|
|
|
930
|
|
373
|
931 *** The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data.
|
|
0
|
932
|
|
|
933 Two causes have been seen for such problems.
|
|
|
934
|
|
|
935 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined
|
|
|
936 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong,
|
|
|
937 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct
|
|
|
938 value in the man page for a.out (5).
|
|
|
939
|
|
|
940 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the
|
|
|
941 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most
|
|
|
942 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and
|
|
|
943 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you
|
|
|
944 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file.
|
|
|
945
|
|
373
|
946 *** Reading and writing files is very very slow.
|
|
0
|
947
|
|
|
948 Try evaluating the form (setq lock-directory nil) and see if that helps.
|
|
|
949 There is a problem with file-locking on some systems (possibly related
|
|
454
|
950 to NFS) that I don't understand. Please send mail to the address
|
|
0
|
951 xemacs@xemacs.org if you figure this one out.
|
|
|
952
|
|
373
|
953 *** When emacs starts up, I get lots of warnings about unknown keysyms.
|
|
124
|
954
|
|
|
955 If you are running the prebuilt binaries, the Motif library expects to find
|
|
|
956 certain thing in the XKeysymDB file. This file is normally in /usr/lib/X11/
|
|
|
957 or in /usr/openwin/lib/. If you keep yours in a different place, set the
|
|
454
|
958 environment variable $XKEYSYMDB to point to it before starting emacs. If
|
|
|
959 you still have the problem after doing that, perhaps your version of X is
|
|
124
|
960 too old. There is a copy of the MIT X11R5 XKeysymDB file in the emacs `etc'
|
|
|
961 directory. Try using that one.
|
|
|
962
|
|
373
|
963 *** My X resources used to work, and now some of them are being ignored.
|
|
0
|
964
|
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124
|
965 Check the resources in .../etc/Emacs.ad (which is the same as the file
|
|
454
|
966 sample.Xdefaults). Perhaps some of the default resources built in to
|
|
124
|
967 emacs are now overriding your existing resources. Copy and edit the
|
|
|
968 resources in Emacs.ad as necessary.
|
|
|
969
|
|
373
|
970 *** I have focus problems when I use `M-o' to switch to another screen
|
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197
|
971 without using the mouse.
|
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124
|
972
|
|
197
|
973 The focus issues with a program like XEmacs, which has multiple
|
|
|
974 homogeneous top-level windows, are very complicated, and as a result,
|
|
|
975 most window managers don't implement them correctly.
|
|
0
|
976
|
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124
|
977 The R4/R5 version of twm (and all of its descendants) had buggy focus
|
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197
|
978 handling. Sufficiently recent versions of tvtwm have been fixed. In
|
|
|
979 addition, if you're using twm, make sure you have not specified
|
|
|
980 "NoTitleFocus" in your .tvtwmrc file. The very nature of this option
|
|
|
981 makes twm do some illegal focus tricks, even with the patch.
|
|
0
|
982
|
|
197
|
983 It is known that olwm and olvwm are buggy, and in different ways. If
|
|
|
984 you're using click-to-type mode, try using point-to-type, or vice
|
|
|
985 versa.
|
|
0
|
986
|
|
197
|
987 In older versions of NCDwm, one could not even type at XEmacs windows.
|
|
|
988 This has been fixed in newer versions (2.4.3, and possibly earlier).
|
|
0
|
989
|
|
197
|
990 (Many people suggest that XEmacs should warp the mouse when focusing
|
|
|
991 on another screen in point-to-type mode. This is not ICCCM-compliant
|
|
|
992 behavior. Implementing such policy is the responsibility of the
|
|
|
993 window manager itself, it is not legal for a client to do this.)
|
|
0
|
994
|
|
373
|
995 *** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen.
|
|
0
|
996
|
|
|
997 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being
|
|
|
998 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes
|
|
|
999 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long
|
|
|
1000 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a
|
|
|
1001 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a
|
|
|
1002 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible
|
|
|
1003 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is
|
|
|
1004 easy, for a person with at least half a brain.
|
|
|
1005
|
|
|
1006 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place:
|
|
|
1007
|
|
|
1008 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control
|
|
|
1009 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use
|
|
|
1010 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible
|
|
|
1011
|
|
|
1012 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether
|
|
|
1013 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to
|
|
|
1014 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an
|
|
|
1015 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off
|
|
|
1016 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow
|
|
|
1017 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on.
|
|
|
1018
|
|
|
1019 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it
|
|
|
1020 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled
|
|
|
1021 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud
|
|
|
1022 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print
|
|
|
1023 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if
|
|
|
1024 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If
|
|
|
1025 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a
|
|
|
1026 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard
|
|
|
1027 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type.
|
|
|
1028
|
|
|
1029 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just
|
|
|
1030 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control
|
|
|
1031 codes. You might as well try it.
|
|
|
1032
|
|
|
1033 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer
|
|
|
1034 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the
|
|
|
1035 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how
|
|
|
1036 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow
|
|
|
1037 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard),
|
|
|
1038 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator
|
|
|
1039 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic
|
|
|
1040 measures can make Emacs semi-work.
|
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|
1041
|
|
|
1042 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system
|
|
|
1043 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x
|
|
|
1044 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are
|
|
|
1045 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x
|
|
|
1046 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow
|
|
|
1047 control handling.)
|
|
|
1048
|
|
|
1049 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them
|
|
|
1050 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose
|
|
|
1051 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement
|
|
|
1052 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all
|
|
|
1053 other control characters are already used by emacs.
|
|
|
1054
|
|
|
1055 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled,
|
|
|
1056 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in
|
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|
1057 order to continue.
|
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1058
|
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1059 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a
|
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|
1060 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function
|
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1061 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme
|
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1062 automatically. Here is an example:
|
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|
1063
|
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1064 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
|
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1065
|
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1066 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled
|
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1067 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control
|
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|
1068 manually.
|
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|
1069
|
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|
1070 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the
|
|
|
1071 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow
|
|
|
1072 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad
|
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|
1073 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming
|
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1074 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some
|
|
|
1075 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I
|
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|
1076 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake
|
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1077 of inferior systems.
|
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1078
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373
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1079 *** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely.
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0
|
1080
|
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|
1081 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow
|
|
|
1082 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your
|
|
|
1083 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator
|
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|
1084 that wants to use flow control.
|
|
|
1085
|
|
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1086 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control.
|
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|
1087 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without
|
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|
1088 flow control, as described in the preceding section.
|
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|
1089
|
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1090 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters
|
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1091 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above
|
|
|
1092 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\.
|
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1093
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373
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1094 *** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely on a net
|
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197
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1095 connection.
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0
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1096
|
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1097 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow
|
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|
1098 control characters to the remote system to which they connect.
|
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|
1099 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow
|
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|
1100 control on the local system.
|
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1101
|
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1102 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host
|
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1103 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the
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1104 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems,
|
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120
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1105 `stty start u stop u' will do this.
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0
|
1106
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1107 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way
|
|
|
1108 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and
|
|
|
1109 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell.
|
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1110
|
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1111 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type
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120
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1112 `M-x enable-flow-control' at the beginning of your emacs session, or
|
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0
|
1113 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the
|
|
|
1114 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind):
|
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|
1115
|
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|
1116 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
|
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|
1117
|
|
|
1118 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more
|
|
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1119 info.
|
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1120
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373
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1121 *** TTY redisplay is slow.
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197
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1122
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1123 XEmacs has fairly new TTY redisplay support (beginning from 19.12),
|
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1124 which doesn't include some basic TTY optimizations -- like using
|
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1125 scrolling regions to move around blocks of text. This is why
|
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454
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1126 redisplay on the traditional terminals, or over slow lines can be very
|
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197
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1127 slow.
|
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1128
|
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|
1129 If you are interested in fixing this, please let us know at
|
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|
1130 <xemacs@xemacs.org>.
|
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1131
|
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373
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1132 *** Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal.
|
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0
|
1133
|
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120
|
1134 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that terminal
|
|
|
1135 is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing the
|
|
|
1136 combination of features specified for that terminal.
|
|
0
|
1137
|
|
|
1138 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters
|
|
|
1139 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression
|
|
120
|
1140 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all terminal
|
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|
1141 output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do what makes the
|
|
|
1142 screen update wrong, and look at the file and decode the characters
|
|
|
1143 using the manual for the terminal. There are several possibilities:
|
|
0
|
1144
|
|
|
1145 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual.
|
|
|
1146
|
|
|
1147 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you
|
|
|
1148 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong.
|
|
|
1149
|
|
120
|
1150 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect of the
|
|
|
1151 terminal behavior not described in an obvious way by termcap.
|
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0
|
1152
|
|
120
|
1153 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for Emacs
|
|
|
1154 to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior and other
|
|
|
1155 terminals that behave subtly differently but are classified the same
|
|
|
1156 by termcap; or else find an algorithm for Emacs to use that avoids the
|
|
|
1157 difference. Such changes must be tested on many kinds of terminals.
|
|
0
|
1158
|
|
|
1159 3) The termcap entry is wrong.
|
|
|
1160
|
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120
|
1161 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes that are known to be
|
|
|
1162 needed in commonly used termcap entries for certain terminals.
|
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0
|
1163
|
|
120
|
1164 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be right for
|
|
|
1165 any terminal with the termcap entry you were using.
|
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0
|
1166
|
|
120
|
1167 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed in
|
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197
|
1168 termcap.c, terminfo.c, tparam.c, cm.c, redisplay-tty.c,
|
|
|
1169 redisplay-output.c, or redisplay.c.
|
|
0
|
1170
|
|
373
|
1171 *** My buffers are full of \000 characters or otherwise corrupt.
|
|
|
1172
|
|
|
1173 Some compilers have trouble with gmalloc.c and ralloc.c; try recompiling
|
|
|
1174 without optimization. If that doesn't work, try recompiling with
|
|
|
1175 SYSTEM_MALLOC defined, and/or with REL_ALLOC undefined.
|
|
|
1176
|
|
|
1177 *** A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm.
|
|
|
1178
|
|
|
1179 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions.
|
|
|
1180 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file:
|
|
|
1181
|
|
|
1182 UsePPosition "on" #allow clents to request a position
|
|
|
1183
|
|
|
1184 *** With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice to do
|
|
|
1185 incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response.
|
|
|
1186
|
|
|
1187 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit,
|
|
|
1188 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use
|
|
|
1189 another escape character in kermit. One user did
|
|
|
1190
|
|
|
1191 set escape-character 17
|
|
|
1192
|
|
|
1193 in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character.
|
|
|
1194
|
|
|
1195 *** The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color.
|
|
|
1196
|
|
|
1197 This has been observed to result from the following X resource:
|
|
|
1198
|
|
|
1199 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
|
|
|
1200
|
|
|
1201 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we
|
|
|
1202 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can
|
|
|
1203 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing
|
|
|
1204 the resource prevents the problem.
|
|
|
1205
|
|
|
1206 *** After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash.
|
|
|
1207
|
|
|
1208 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the
|
|
|
1209 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly
|
|
|
1210 the first time, and then crash when run a second time.
|
|
|
1211
|
|
|
1212 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time,
|
|
|
1213 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your
|
|
|
1214 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the
|
|
|
1215 configure script) that reads:
|
|
|
1216 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC
|
|
|
1217 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around
|
|
|
1218 the kernel bug.
|
|
|
1219
|
|
|
1220 *** Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating
|
|
|
1221 directly with an X server.
|
|
|
1222
|
|
|
1223 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it
|
|
|
1224 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is
|
|
|
1225 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c
|
|
|
1226 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event
|
|
|
1227 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you
|
|
|
1228 have made the key binding correctly.
|
|
|
1229
|
|
|
1230 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may
|
|
|
1231 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X
|
|
|
1232 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by
|
|
|
1233 default.
|
|
|
1234
|
|
|
1235 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows:
|
|
|
1236
|
|
|
1237 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L'
|
|
|
1238 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R'
|
|
|
1239
|
|
|
1240 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those
|
|
|
1241 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you
|
|
|
1242 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any
|
|
|
1243 modifier bit not otherwise used.
|
|
|
1244
|
|
|
1245 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other
|
|
|
1246 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or
|
|
|
1247 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the
|
|
|
1248 commands show above to make them modifier keys.
|
|
|
1249
|
|
|
1250 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt
|
|
|
1251 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs.
|
|
|
1252
|
|
|
1253 *** In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line.
|
|
|
1254
|
|
|
1255 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too
|
|
|
1256 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns
|
|
|
1257 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the
|
|
|
1258 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:
|
|
|
1259
|
|
|
1260 if ($?EMACS) then
|
|
|
1261 if ($EMACS == "t") then
|
|
454
|
1262 unset edit
|
|
373
|
1263 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
|
|
|
1264 endif
|
|
|
1265 endif
|
|
|
1266
|
|
|
1267 *** An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid
|
|
|
1268 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'.
|
|
|
1269
|
|
|
1270 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as
|
|
|
1271 emacs*Cursor: black
|
|
|
1272 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something
|
|
|
1273 that isn't a color.)
|
|
|
1274
|
|
|
1275 The fix is to correct your X resources.
|
|
|
1276
|
|
|
1277 *** Once you pull down a menu from the menubar, it won't go away.
|
|
|
1278
|
|
|
1279 It has been claimed that this is caused by a bug in certain very old
|
|
|
1280 (1990?) versions of the twm window manager. It doesn't happen with
|
|
|
1281 recent vintages, or with other window managers.
|
|
|
1282
|
|
|
1283 *** Emacs ignores the "help" key when running OLWM.
|
|
|
1284
|
|
|
1285 OLWM grabs the help key, and retransmits it to the appropriate client
|
|
|
1286 using XSendEvent. Allowing emacs to react to synthetic events is a
|
|
|
1287 security hole, so this is turned off by default. You can enable it by
|
|
|
1288 setting the variable x-allow-sendevents to t. You can also cause fix
|
|
|
1289 this by telling OLWM to not grab the help key, with the null binding
|
|
|
1290 "OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand.Help:".
|
|
|
1291
|
|
|
1292 *** Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
|
|
|
1293 terminal type.
|
|
|
1294
|
|
|
1295 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP
|
|
|
1296 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to
|
|
|
1297 provide the information on the special terminal type that Emacs
|
|
|
1298 emulates.
|
|
|
1299
|
|
|
1300 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP
|
|
|
1301 in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets
|
|
|
1302 it only if it is undefined.
|
|
|
1303
|
|
|
1304 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file
|
|
|
1305
|
|
|
1306 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not
|
|
|
1307 happen in a non-login shell.
|
|
|
1308
|
|
442
|
1309 *** The popup menu appears at the bottom/right of my screen.
|
|
373
|
1310
|
|
|
1311 You probably have something like the following in your ~/.Xdefaults
|
|
|
1312
|
|
|
1313 Emacs.geometry: 81x56--9--1
|
|
|
1314
|
|
|
1315 Use the following instead
|
|
|
1316
|
|
|
1317 Emacs*EmacsFrame.geometry: 81x56--9--1
|
|
|
1318
|
|
1222
|
1319 *** When I try to use the PostgreSQL functions, I get a message about
|
|
|
1320 undefined symbols.
|
|
|
1321
|
|
|
1322 The only known case in which this happens is if you are using gcc, you
|
|
|
1323 configured with --error-checking=all and --with-modules, and you
|
|
|
1324 compiled with no optimization. If you encounter this problem in any
|
|
|
1325 other situation, please inform xemacs-beta@xemacs.org.
|
|
|
1326
|
|
|
1327 This problem stems from a gcc bug. With no optimization, functions
|
|
|
1328 declared `extern inline' sometimes are not completely compiled away. An
|
|
|
1329 undefined symbol with the function's name is put into the resulting
|
|
|
1330 object file. In this case, when the postgresql module is loaded, the
|
|
|
1331 linker is unable to resolve that symbol, so the module load fails. The
|
|
|
1332 workaround is to recompile the module with optimization turned on. Any
|
|
|
1333 optimization level, including -Os, appears to work.
|
|
|
1334
|
|
373
|
1335
|
|
1036
|
1336 ** MacOS/X, Darwin
|
|
|
1337 *** XEmacs crashes on MacOS within font-lock, or when dealing
|
|
|
1338 with large compilation buffers, or in other regex applications.
|
|
|
1339
|
|
|
1340 The default stack size under MacOS/X is rather small (512k as opposed
|
|
|
1341 to Solaris 8M), hosing the regexp code, which uses alloca()
|
|
|
1342 extensively, overflowing the stack when complex regexps are used.
|
|
|
1343 Workarounds:
|
|
|
1344
|
|
|
1345 1) Increase your stack size, using `ulimit -s 8192' or a (t)csh
|
|
|
1346 equivalent;
|
|
|
1347
|
|
|
1348 2) Recompile regex.c with REGEX_MALLOC defined.
|
|
|
1349
|
|
373
|
1350 ** AIX
|
|
|
1351 *** Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal, using an AIXterm.
|
|
0
|
1352
|
|
|
1353 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines:
|
|
|
1354
|
|
|
1355 *aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f)
|
|
|
1356 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
|
|
|
1357
|
|
|
1358 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127).
|
|
|
1359
|
|
373
|
1360 *** On AIX 4, some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer
|
|
|
1361 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown".
|
|
124
|
1362
|
|
373
|
1363 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
|
|
|
1364 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal
|
|
|
1365 Definitions" to make them defined.
|
|
124
|
1366
|
|
373
|
1367 *** On AIX, you get this message when running Emacs:
|
|
0
|
1368
|
|
373
|
1369 Could not load program emacs
|
|
|
1370 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined
|
|
|
1371 Error was: Exec format error
|
|
124
|
1372
|
|
373
|
1373 or this one:
|
|
0
|
1374
|
|
373
|
1375 Could not load program .emacs
|
|
|
1376 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined
|
|
|
1377 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined
|
|
|
1378 Error was: Exec format error
|
|
124
|
1379
|
|
373
|
1380 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was
|
|
|
1381 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile.
|
|
124
|
1382
|
|
373
|
1383 *** Trouble using ptys on AIX.
|
|
|
1384
|
|
|
1385 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly.
|
|
|
1386 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly.
|
|
|
1387
|
|
0
|
1388
|
|
373
|
1389 ** SunOS/Solaris
|
|
|
1390 *** The Emacs window disappears when you type M-q.
|
|
197
|
1391
|
|
373
|
1392 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit
|
|
|
1393 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use
|
|
|
1394 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window
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1395 manager to use some other command. You can disable the
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1396 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults:
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0
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1397
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373
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1398 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False
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1399
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1400 *** When Emacs tries to ring the bell, you get an error like
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124
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1401
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1402 audio: sst_open: SETQSIZE" Invalid argument
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1403 audio: sst_close: SETREG MMR2, Invalid argument
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1404
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197
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1405 you have probably compiled using an ANSI C compiler, but with non-ANSI
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1406 include files. In particular, on Suns, the file
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1407 /usr/include/sun/audioio.h uses the _IOW macro to define the constant
|
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1408 AUDIOSETQSIZE. _IOW in turn uses a K&R preprocessor feature that is
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1409 now explicitly forbidden in ANSI preprocessors, namely substitution
|
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1410 inside character constants. All ANSI C compilers must provide a
|
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1411 workaround for this problem. Lucid's C compiler is shipped with a new
|
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1412 set of system include files. If you are using GCC, there is a script
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1413 called fixincludes that creates new versions of some system include
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1414 files that use this obsolete feature.
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124
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1415
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373
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1416 *** On Solaris 2.6, XEmacs dumps core when exiting.
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0
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1417
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373
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1418 This happens if you're XEmacs is running on the same machine as the X
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1419 server, and the optimized memory transport has been turned on by
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1420 setting the environment variable XSUNTRANSPORT. The crash occurs
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1421 during the call to XCloseDisplay.
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124
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1422
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373
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1423 If this describes your situation, you need to undefine the
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1424 XSUNTRANSPORT environment variable.
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126
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1425
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373
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1426 *** On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.
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124
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1427
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373
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1428 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r
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1429 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs.
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124
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1430
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373
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1431 *** On Solaris 2.4, Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs
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197
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1432 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie.
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124
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1433
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1434 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so
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1435 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines
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1436
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1437 #if ThreadedX
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1438 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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1439 #endif
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1440
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1441 to:
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1442
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1443 #if OSMinorVersion < 4
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1444 #if ThreadedX
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1445 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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1446 #endif
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1447 #endif
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1448
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1449 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4
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1450 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for
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1451 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under
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1452 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the
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1453 definition for your type of machine and system.
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1454
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1455 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild
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1456 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on
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1457 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3.
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1458
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1459 For multithreaded X to work it necessary to install patch
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1460 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need
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1461 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that
|
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1462 patch.
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0
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1463
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124
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1464 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution:
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1465 he changed
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1466 #define ThreadedX YES
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1467 to
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1468 #define ThreadedX NO
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1469 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all
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1470 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and
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1471 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work.
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1472
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373
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1473 *** On SunOS 4.1.3, Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft.
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124
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1474
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373
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1475 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4'
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1476 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise
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1477 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which
|
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1478 it can do perfectly well for SunOS).
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124
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1479
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373
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1480 *** Mail is lost when sent to local aliases.
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0
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1481
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124
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1482 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the
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1483 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be
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1484 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually)
|
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1485 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which
|
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1486 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the
|
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1487 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to
|
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1488 obtain the destination address.
|
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1489
|
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|
1490 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail.
|
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|
1491 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize
|
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1492 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris
|
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1493 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS
|
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1494 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which
|
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|
1495 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time
|
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|
1496 of this writing, these official versions are available:
|
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1497
|
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1498 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail:
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1499 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation)
|
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1500 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files)
|
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1501 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs)
|
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1502 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript)
|
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1503
|
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1504 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub:
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1505 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz
|
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1506
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373
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1507 *** Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though
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124
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1508 the names work properly with other programs on the same system.
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197
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1509 Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.
|
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1510 Gnus can't make contact with the specified host for nntp.
|
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0
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1511
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124
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1512 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared
|
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1513 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the
|
|
|
1514 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a
|
|
|
1515 similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses.
|
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0
|
1516
|
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124
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1517 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with
|
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1518 the nameserver, but Emacs does not.
|
|
|
1519
|
|
|
1520 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you
|
|
|
1521 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs.
|
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0
|
1522
|
|
124
|
1523 On SunOS 4.1, simply define HAVE_RES_INIT.
|
|
|
1524
|
|
|
1525 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a,
|
|
|
1526 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to
|
|
|
1527 do this is to add to config.h a definition of LIBS_SYSTEM, LIBS_MACHINE
|
|
|
1528 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro
|
|
|
1529 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries,
|
|
|
1530 be careful not to lose the others.
|
|
|
1531
|
|
|
1532 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h:
|
|
|
1533
|
|
|
1534 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv
|
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|
1535
|
|
|
1536 Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that
|
|
|
1537 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h
|
|
|
1538 again to say this:
|
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1539
|
|
|
1540 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar
|
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1541
|
|
373
|
1542 *** With process-connection-type set to t, each line of subprocess
|
|
|
1543 output is terminated with a ^M, making ange-ftp and GNUS not work.
|
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|
1544
|
|
|
1545 On SunOS systems, this problem has been seen to be a result of an
|
|
|
1546 incomplete installation of gcc 2.2 which allowed some non-ANSI
|
|
|
1547 compatible include files into the compilation. In particular this
|
|
|
1548 affected virtually all ioctl() calls.
|
|
|
1549
|
|
|
1550
|
|
|
1551 ** Linux
|
|
845
|
1552 *** XEmacs crashes on startup, in make-frame.
|
|
|
1553
|
|
|
1554 Typically the Lisp backtrace includes
|
|
|
1555
|
|
|
1556 make-frame(nil #<x-device on ":0.0" 0x2558>)
|
|
|
1557
|
|
|
1558 somewhere near the top. The problem is due to an improvement in GNU
|
|
|
1559 ld that sorts the ELF reloc sections in the executable, giving
|
|
|
1560 dramatic speedups in startup for large executables. It also confuses
|
|
|
1561 the traditional unexec code in XEmacs, leading to the core dump. The
|
|
|
1562 solution is to use the --pdump or --ldflags='-z nocombreloc' options
|
|
|
1563 to configure. Recent 21.4 and 12.5 autodetect this in configure.
|
|
|
1564
|
|
|
1565 Red Hat and SuSE (at least) distributed a prerelease version of ld
|
|
|
1566 (versions around 2.11.90.x.y) where autodetection is impossible. The
|
|
|
1567 recommended procedure is to upgrade to binutils >= 2.12 and rerun
|
|
|
1568 configure. Otherwise you must apply the flags by hand. --pdump is
|
|
|
1569 recommended.
|
|
448
|
1570
|
|
|
1571 *** I want XEmacs to use the Alt key, not the XXX key, for Meta commands
|
|
|
1572
|
|
|
1573 For historical reasons, XEmacs looks for a Meta key, then an Alt key.
|
|
|
1574 It binds Meta commands to the X11 modifier bit attached to the first
|
|
|
1575 of these it finds. On PCs, the Windows key is often assigned the Meta
|
|
|
1576 bit, but many desktop environments go to great lengths to get all apps
|
|
|
1577 to use the Alt key, and reserve the Windows key to (sensibly enough)
|
|
|
1578 the window manager.
|
|
|
1579
|
|
|
1580 One correct way to implement this was suggested on comp.emacs.xemacs
|
|
|
1581 (by Kilian Foth and in more detail by Michael Piotrowski): unmap the
|
|
|
1582 Meta modifier using xmodmap or xkb, and then map the Meta/Windows key
|
|
450
|
1583 to the Super or Hyper keysym and an appropriate mod bit. XEmacs will
|
|
|
1584 not find the Meta keysym, and default to using the Alt key for Meta
|
|
|
1585 keybindings. Typically few applications use the (X11) Meta modifier;
|
|
|
1586 it is tedious but not too much so to teach the ones you need to use
|
|
|
1587 Super instead of Meta. There may be further useful hints in the
|
|
|
1588 discussion of keymapping on non-Linux platforms.
|
|
|
1589
|
|
|
1590 *** The color-gcc wrapper
|
|
|
1591
|
|
|
1592 This wrapper colorizes the error messages from gcc. By default XEmacs
|
|
|
1593 does not interpret the escape sequences used to generate colors,
|
|
|
1594 resulting in a cluttered, hard-to-read buffer. You can remove the
|
|
|
1595 wrapper, or defeat the wrapper colorization in Emacs process buffers
|
|
|
1596 by editing the "nocolor" attribute in /etc/colorgccrc:
|
|
|
1597
|
|
|
1598 $ diff -u /etc/colorgccrc.old /etc/colorgccrc
|
|
|
1599 --- /etc/colorgccrc.old Tue Dec 26 02:17:46 2000
|
|
|
1600 +++ /etc/colorgccrc Tue Dec 26 02:15:48 2000
|
|
|
1601 @@ -34,1 +34,1 @@
|
|
|
1602 -nocolor: dumb
|
|
|
1603 +nocolor: dumb emacs
|
|
|
1604
|
|
|
1605 If you want colorization in your Emacs buffers, you may get good
|
|
|
1606 results from the ansi-color.el library:
|
|
|
1607
|
|
|
1608 http://www.geocities.com/kensanata/color-emacs.html#ansicolors
|
|
|
1609
|
|
|
1610 This is written for the mainline GNU Emacs but the author has made
|
|
|
1611 efforts to adapt it to XEmacs. YMMV.
|
|
448
|
1612
|
|
373
|
1613 *** Slow startup on Linux.
|
|
|
1614
|
|
|
1615 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that
|
|
448
|
1616 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'. There are two
|
|
|
1617 problems, one older, one newer.
|
|
|
1618
|
|
|
1619 **** Old problem: IPv4 host lookup
|
|
373
|
1620
|
|
448
|
1621 On older systems, this is because Emacs looks up the host name when it
|
|
|
1622 starts. Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due
|
|
|
1623 to improper system configuration. (Recent Linux distros usually have
|
|
|
1624 this configuration correct "out of the box".) This problem can occur
|
|
|
1625 for both networked and non-networked machines.
|
|
373
|
1626
|
|
|
1627 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root.
|
|
|
1628
|
|
448
|
1629 ***** Networked Case
|
|
373
|
1630
|
|
|
1631 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both
|
|
|
1632 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this
|
|
|
1633 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name):
|
|
|
1634
|
|
|
1635 127.0.0.1 localhost HOSTNAME
|
|
|
1636
|
|
|
1637 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
|
|
|
1638 lines:
|
|
|
1639
|
|
454
|
1640 order hosts, bind
|
|
373
|
1641 multi on
|
|
|
1642
|
|
|
1643 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
|
|
|
1644 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
|
|
|
1645 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections
|
|
|
1646 dynamically allocate ip addresses).
|
|
|
1647
|
|
448
|
1648 ***** Non-Networked Case
|
|
373
|
1649
|
|
|
1650 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well.
|
|
|
1651 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a
|
|
|
1652 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command
|
|
|
1653 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts'
|
|
|
1654 file is not necessary with this approach.
|
|
|
1655
|
|
448
|
1656 **** New problem: IPv6 CNAME lookup
|
|
|
1657
|
|
|
1658 A newer problem is due to XEmacs changing to use the modern
|
|
|
1659 getaddrinfo() interface from the older gethostbyname() interface. The
|
|
|
1660 solution above is insufficient, because getaddrinfo() by default tries
|
|
|
1661 to get IPv6 information for localhost. This always involves a dns
|
|
|
1662 lookup to get the CNAME, and the strategies above don't work. It then
|
|
724
|
1663 falls back to IPv4 behavior. This is good[tm] according the people at
|
|
|
1664 WIDE who know about IPv6.
|
|
448
|
1665
|
|
|
1666 ***** Robust network case
|
|
|
1667
|
|
|
1668 Configure your network so that there are no nameservers configured
|
|
|
1669 until the network is actually running. getaddrinfo() will not try to
|
|
|
1670 access a nameserver that isn't configured.
|
|
|
1671
|
|
|
1672 ***** Flaky network case
|
|
|
1673
|
|
|
1674 If you have a flaky modem or DSL connection that can be relied on only
|
|
|
1675 to go down whenever you want to bring XEmacs up, you need to force
|
|
|
1676 IPv4 behavior. Explicitly setting DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 (or whatever
|
|
|
1677 is appropriate) works in most cases.
|
|
|
1678
|
|
|
1679 If you cannot or do not want to do that, you can hard code IPv4
|
|
|
1680 behavior in src/process-unix.c. This is bad[tm], on your own head be
|
|
724
|
1681 it. Use the configure option `--with-ipv6-cname=no'.
|
|
373
|
1682
|
|
845
|
1683 *** Mandrake
|
|
|
1684
|
|
|
1685 The Mandrake Linux distribution is attempting to comprehensively
|
|
|
1686 update the user interface, and make it consistent across
|
|
|
1687 applications. This is very difficult, and will occasionally cause
|
|
|
1688 conflicts with applications like Emacs with their own long-established
|
|
|
1689 interfaces. Known issues specific to Mandrake or especially common:
|
|
|
1690
|
|
|
1691 Some versions of XEmacs (21.1.9 is known) distributed with Mandrake
|
|
|
1692 were patched to make the Meta and Alt keysyms synonymous. These
|
|
|
1693 normally work as expected in the Mandrake environment. However,
|
|
|
1694 custom-built XEmacsen (including all 21.2 betas) will "inexplicably"
|
|
|
1695 not respect the "Alt-invokes-Meta-commands" convention. See "I want
|
|
|
1696 XEmacs to use the Alt key" below.
|
|
|
1697
|
|
|
1698 The color-gcc wrapper (see below) is in common use on the Mandrake
|
|
|
1699 platform.
|
|
|
1700
|
|
|
1701 *** You get crashes in a non-C locale with Linux GNU Libc 2.0.
|
|
|
1702
|
|
|
1703 Internationalization was not the top priority for GNU Libc 2.0.
|
|
|
1704 As of this writing (1998-12-28) you may get crashes while running
|
|
|
1705 XEmacs in a non-C locale. For example, `LC_ALL=en_US xemacs' crashes
|
|
|
1706 while `LC_ALL=C xemacs' runs fine. This happens for example with GNU
|
|
|
1707 libc 2.0.7. Installing libintl.a and libintl.h built from gettext
|
|
|
1708 0.10.35 and re-building XEmacs solves the crashes. Presumably soon
|
|
|
1709 everyone will upgrade to GNU Libc 2.1 and this problem will go away.
|
|
|
1710
|
|
|
1711 *** `C-z', or `M-x suspend-emacs' hangs instead of suspending.
|
|
|
1712
|
|
|
1713 If you build with `gpm' support on Linux, you cannot suspend XEmacs
|
|
|
1714 because gpm installs a buggy SIGTSTP handler. Either compile with
|
|
|
1715 `--with-gpm=no', or don't suspend XEmacs on the Linux console until
|
|
|
1716 this bug is fixed.
|
|
|
1717
|
|
|
1718 *** With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the
|
|
|
1719 character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead.
|
|
|
1720
|
|
|
1721 One user on a Linux system reported that this problem went away with
|
|
|
1722 installation of a new X server. The failing server was XFree86 3.1.1.
|
|
|
1723 XFree86 3.1.2 works.
|
|
|
1724
|
|
373
|
1725 ** IRIX
|
|
|
1726 *** On Irix, I don't see the toolbar icons and I'm getting lots of
|
|
|
1727 entries in the warnings buffer.
|
|
|
1728
|
|
|
1729 SGI ships a really old Xpm library in /usr/lib which does not work at
|
|
|
1730 all well with XEmacs. The solution is to install your own copy of the
|
|
|
1731 latest version of Xpm somewhere and then use the --site-includes and
|
|
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1732 --site-libraries flags to tell configure where to find it.
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1733
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1734 *** Trouble using ptys on IRIX, or running out of ptys.
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1735
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1736 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to
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1737 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
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1738 to allocate ptys reliably.
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1739
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1740 *** Beware of the default image & graphics library on Irix
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1741
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1742 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
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1743
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1744 You *have* to compile your own jpeg lib. The one delivered with SGI
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1745 systems is a C++ lib, which apparently XEmacs cannot cope with.
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1746
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1747
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1748 ** Digital UNIX/OSF/VMS/Ultrix
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1749 *** XEmacs crashes on Digital Unix within font-lock, or when dealing
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1036
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1750 with large compilation buffers, or in other regex applications.
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373
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1751
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1752 The default stack size under Digital Unix is rather small (2M as
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1753 opposed to Solaris 8M), hosing the regexp code, which uses alloca()
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1754 extensively, overflowing the stack when complex regexps are used.
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1755 Workarounds:
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312
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1756
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373
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1757 1) Increase your stack size, using `ulimit -s 8192' or a (t)csh
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1758 equivalent;
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1759
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1760 2) Recompile regex.c with REGEX_MALLOC defined.
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1761
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1762 *** The `Alt' key doesn't behave as `Meta' when running DECwindows.
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1763
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1764 The default DEC keyboard mapping has the Alt keys set up to generate the
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1765 keysym `Multi_key', which has a meaning to xemacs which is distinct from that
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1766 of the `Meta_L' and `Meta-R' keysyms. A second problem is that certain keys
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1767 have the Mod2 modifier attached to them for no adequately explored reason.
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1768 The correct fix is to pass this file to xmodmap upon starting X:
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1769
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1770 clear mod2
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1771 keysym Multi_key = Alt_L
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1772 add mod1 = Alt_L
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1773 add mod1 = Alt_R
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1774
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1775 *** The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key.
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1776
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1777 This shell command should fix it:
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1778
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1779 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L'
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1780
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1781 *** `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped
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1782 Emacs on.
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1783
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1784 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information
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1785 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using
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1786 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work
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1787 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on.
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1788
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1789 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in
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1790 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution.
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1791
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1792 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is
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1793 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know.
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1794 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included
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1795 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host.
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1796
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1797
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1798 ** HP-UX
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1799 *** I get complaints about the mapping of my HP keyboard at startup,
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1800 but I haven't changed anything.
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1801
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1802 The default HP keymap is set up to have Mod1 assigned to two different keys:
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1803 Meta_L and Mode_switch (even though there is not actually a Mode_switch key on
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1804 the keyboard -- it uses an "imaginary" keycode.) There actually is a reason
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1805 for this, but it's not a good one. The correct fix is to execute this command
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1806 upon starting X:
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1807
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1808 xmodmap -e 'remove mod1 = Mode_switch'
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312
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1809
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373
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1810 *** On HP-UX, you get "poll: Interrupted system call" message in the
|
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1811 window where XEmacs was launched.
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1812
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1813 Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr> writes:
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1814
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1815 I get a very strange problem when linking libc.a dynamically: every
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1816 event (mouse, keyboard, expose...) results in a "poll: Interrupted
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1817 system call" message in the window where XEmacs was
|
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1818 launched. Forcing a static link of libc.a alone by adding
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1819 /usr/lib/libc.a at the end of the link line solves this. Note that
|
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1820 my 9.07 build of 19.14b17 and my (old) build of 19.13 both exhibit
|
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442
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1821 the same behavior. I've tried various hpux patches to no avail. If
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373
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1822 this problem cannot be solved before the release date, binary kits
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1823 for HP *must* be linked statically against libc, otherwise this
|
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1824 problem will show up. (This is directed at whoever will volunteer
|
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1825 for this kit, as I won't be available to do it, unless 19.14 gets
|
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1826 delayed until mid-june ;-). I think this problem will be an FAQ soon
|
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1827 after the release otherwise.
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1828
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1829 Note: The above entry is probably not valid for XEmacs 21.0 and
|
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1830 later.
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1831
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1832 *** The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps
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1833 other non-English HP keyboards too).
|
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1834
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1835 This is because HP-UX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a
|
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1836 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE
|
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1837 configures the X server.
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1838
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1839 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
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1840 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
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1841 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
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1842 EOF
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1843
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1844 xmodmap - << EOF
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1845 clear mod1
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1846 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
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1847 add mod1 = Meta_L
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1848 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
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1849 add mod2 = Mode_switch
|
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1850 EOF
|
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1851
|
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442
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1852
|
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1853 *** XEmacs dumps core at startup when native audio is used. Native
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1854 audio does not work with recent versions of HP-UX.
|
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1855
|
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1856 Under HP-UX 10.20 and later (e.g., HP-UX 11.XX), with native audio
|
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1857 enabled, the dumped XEmacs binary ("xemacs") core dumps at startup if
|
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1858 recent versions of the libAlib.sl audio shared library is used. Note
|
|
|
1859 that "temacs" will run, but "xemacs" will dump core. This, of course,
|
|
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1860 causes the XEmacs build to fail. If GNU malloc is enabled, a stack
|
|
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1861 trace will show XEmacs to have crashed in the "first" call to malloc().
|
|
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1862
|
|
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1863 This bug currently exists in all versions of XEmacs, when the undump
|
|
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1864 mechanism is used. It is not known if using the experimental portable
|
|
|
1865 dumper will allow native audio to work.
|
|
|
1866
|
|
|
1867 **** Cause:
|
|
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1868
|
|
|
1869 Recent versions of the HP-UX 10.20 (and later) audio shared library (in
|
|
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1870 /opt/audio/lib), pulls in the libdce shared library, which pulls in a
|
|
|
1871 thread (libcma) library. This prevents the HP-UX undump() routine (in
|
|
|
1872 unexhp9k800.c) from properly working. What's happening is that some
|
|
|
1873 initialization routines are being called in the libcma library, *BEFORE*
|
|
|
1874 main() is called, and these initialization routines are calling
|
|
|
1875 malloc(). Unfortunately, in order for the undumper to work, XEmacs must
|
|
|
1876 adjust (move upwards) the sbrk() value *BEFORE* the first call to
|
|
|
1877 malloc(); if malloc() is called before XEmacs has properly adjusted sbrk
|
|
|
1878 (which is what is happening), dumped memory that is being used by
|
|
|
1879 XEmacs, is improperly re-allocated for use by malloc() and the dumped
|
|
|
1880 memory is corrupted. This causes XEmacs to die an horrible death.
|
|
|
1881
|
|
|
1882 It is believed that versions of the audio library past December 1998
|
|
|
1883 will trigger this problem. Under HP-UX 10.20, you probably have to
|
|
|
1884 install audio library patches to encounter this. It's probable that
|
|
|
1885 recent "fresh, out-of-the-box" HP-UX 11.XX workstations also have this
|
|
|
1886 problem. For HP-UX 10.20, it's believed that audio patch PHSS_17121 (or
|
|
|
1887 a superceeding one, like PHSS_17554, PHSS_17971, PHSS_18777, PHSS_21481,
|
|
|
1888 or PHSS_21662, etc.) will trigger this.
|
|
|
1889
|
|
|
1890 To check if your audio library will cause problems for XEmacs, run
|
|
|
1891 "chatr /opt/audio/lib/libAlib.sl". If "libdce" appears in the displayed
|
|
|
1892 shared library list, XEmacs will probably encounter problems if audio is
|
|
|
1893 enabled.
|
|
|
1894
|
|
|
1895 **** Workaround:
|
|
|
1896
|
|
|
1897 Don't enable native audio. Re-run configure without native audio
|
|
|
1898 support.
|
|
|
1899
|
|
|
1900 If your site supports it, try using NAS (Network Audio Support).
|
|
|
1901
|
|
|
1902 Try using the experimental portable dumper. It may work, or it may
|
|
|
1903 not.
|
|
|
1904
|
|
|
1905
|
|
373
|
1906 *** `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'
|
|
|
1907
|
|
|
1908 On HP-UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS
|
|
|
1909 file system. HP-UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and
|
|
|
1910 does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default
|
|
|
1911 value is just ten seconds.
|
|
|
1912
|
|
|
1913 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period.
|
|
|
1914
|
|
|
1915 *** Shell mode on HP-UX gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".
|
|
124
|
1916
|
|
|
1917 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says:
|
|
|
1918
|
|
|
1919 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
|
|
197
|
1920 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then tty
|
|
|
1921 will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places, but tty
|
|
|
1922 is giving it back 3.
|
|
124
|
1923
|
|
197
|
1924 The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a
|
|
|
1925 single word:
|
|
0
|
1926
|
|
454
|
1927 if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
|
|
124
|
1928
|
|
|
1929 should be changed to:
|
|
|
1930
|
|
454
|
1931 if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
|
|
124
|
1932
|
|
|
1933 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
|
|
|
1934 and into .login.
|
|
0
|
1935
|
|
|
1936
|
|
373
|
1937 ** SCO
|
|
|
1938 *** Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems.
|
|
0
|
1939
|
|
373
|
1940 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
|
|
|
1941 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
|
|
|
1942 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick
|
|
|
1943 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with
|
|
|
1944 GCC.
|
|
124
|
1945
|
|
88
|
1946
|
|
373
|
1947 ** Windows
|
|
524
|
1948 *** In general, the Windows code is less mature than the Unix code.
|
|
|
1949
|
|
|
1950 The Windows code base is still changing quickly. If you are
|
|
|
1951 experiencing problems, try the latest beta version to see if the
|
|
|
1952 problem still exists. Also ask on xemacs-nt@xemacs.org.
|
|
|
1953
|
|
|
1954
|
|
|
1955 ** Cygwin
|
|
1058
|
1956 *** XEmacs fails to start because cygXpm-noX4.dll was not found.
|
|
|
1957
|
|
|
1958 Andy Piper <andy@xemacs.org> sez:
|
|
|
1959
|
|
|
1960 cygXpm-noX4 is part of the cygwin distribution under libraries or
|
|
|
1961 graphics, but is not installed by default. You need to run the
|
|
|
1962 cygwin setup again and select this package.
|
|
|
1963
|
|
524
|
1964 *** Subprocesses do not work.
|
|
|
1965
|
|
|
1966 You do not have "tty" in your CYGWIN environment variable. This must
|
|
|
1967 be set in your autoexec.bat (win95) or the system properties (winnt)
|
|
|
1968 as it must be read before the cygwin DLL initializes.
|
|
|
1969
|
|
|
1970 *** ^G does not work on hung subprocesses.
|
|
124
|
1971
|
|
524
|
1972 This is a known problem. It can be remedied by defining BROKEN_SIGIO
|
|
|
1973 in src/s/cygwin.h, however this currently leads to instability in XEmacs.
|
|
|
1974 (#### is this still true?)
|
|
|
1975
|
|
|
1976 *** Errors from make like `/c:not found' when running `M-x compile'.
|
|
308
|
1977
|
|
524
|
1978 Make sure you set the environment variable MAKE_MODE to UNIX in your
|
|
|
1979 init file (.xemacs/init.el), Control Panel (Windows 2000/NT), or
|
|
|
1980 AUTOEXEC.BAT (Windows 98/95).
|
|
|
1981
|
|
|
1982 *** There are no images in the toolbar buttons.
|
|
|
1983
|
|
|
1984 You need version 4.71 of commctrl.dll which does not ship with windows
|
|
|
1985 95. You can get this by installing IE 4.0 or downloading it from the
|
|
|
1986 microsoft website.
|
|
308
|
1987
|
|
197
|
1988
|
|
124
|
1989 * Compatibility problems (with Emacs 18, GNU Emacs, or previous XEmacs/lemacs)
|
|
197
|
1990 ==============================================================================
|
|
88
|
1991
|
|
373
|
1992 *** "Symbol's value as variable is void: unread-command-char".
|
|
197
|
1993 "Wrong type argument: arrayp, #<keymap 143 entries>"
|
|
|
1994 "Wrong type argument: stringp, [#<keypress-event return>]"
|
|
88
|
1995
|
|
124
|
1996 There are a few incompatible changes in XEmacs, and these are the
|
|
|
1997 symptoms. Some of the emacs-lisp code you are running needs to be
|
|
|
1998 updated to be compatible with XEmacs.
|
|
|
1999
|
|
|
2000 The code should not treat keymaps as arrays (use `define-key', etc.),
|
|
|
2001 should not use obsolete variables like `unread-command-char' (use
|
|
197
|
2002 `unread-command-events'). Many (most) of the new ways of doing things
|
|
124
|
2003 are compatible in GNU Emacs and XEmacs.
|
|
88
|
2004
|
|
197
|
2005 Modern Emacs packages (Gnus, VM, W3, efs, etc) are written to support
|
|
|
2006 GNU Emacs and XEmacs. We have provided modified versions of several
|
|
|
2007 popular emacs packages (dired, etc) which are compatible with this
|
|
|
2008 version of emacs. Check to make sure you have not set your load-path
|
|
|
2009 so that your private copies of these packages are being found before
|
|
|
2010 the versions in the lisp directory.
|
|
124
|
2011
|
|
|
2012 Make sure that your load-path and your $EMACSLOADPATH environment
|
|
|
2013 variable are not pointing at an Emacs18 lisp directory. This will
|
|
|
2014 cripple emacs.
|
|
88
|
2015
|
|
124
|
2016 ** Some packages that worked before now cause the error
|
|
223
|
2017 Wrong type argument: arrayp, #<face ... >
|
|
124
|
2018
|
|
197
|
2019 Code which uses the `face' accessor functions must be recompiled with
|
|
|
2020 xemacs 19.9 or later. The functions whose callers must be recompiled
|
|
|
2021 are: face-font, face-foreground, face-background,
|
|
|
2022 face-background-pixmap, and face-underline-p. The .elc files
|
|
|
2023 generated by version 19.9 will work in 19.6 and 19.8, but older .elc
|
|
|
2024 files which contain calls to these functions will not work in 19.9.
|
|
124
|
2025
|
|
|
2026 ** Signaling: (error "Byte code stack underflow (byte compiler bug), pc 38")
|
|
88
|
2027
|
|
120
|
2028 This error is given when XEmacs 20 is compiled without MULE support
|
|
88
|
2029 but is attempting to load a .elc which requires MULE support. The fix
|
|
|
2030 is to rebytecompile the offending file.
|
|
|
2031
|
|
124
|
2032 ** Signaling: (wrong-type-argument ...) when loading mail-abbrevs
|
|
88
|
2033
|
|
197
|
2034 The is seen when installing the Insidious Big Brother Data Base (bbdb)
|
|
|
2035 which includes an outdated copy of mail-abbrevs.el. Remove the copy
|
|
|
2036 that comes with bbdb and use the one that comes with XEmacs.
|
|
|
2037
|
|
144
|
2038
|
|
|
2039 * MULE issues
|
|
197
|
2040 =============
|
|
144
|
2041
|
|
223
|
2042 ** A reminder: XEmacs/Mule work does not currently receive *any*
|
|
|
2043 funding, and all work is done by volunteers. If you think you can
|
|
|
2044 help, please contact the XEmacs maintainers.
|
|
|
2045
|
|
278
|
2046 ** XEmacs/Mule doesn't support TTY's satisfactorily.
|
|
223
|
2047
|
|
|
2048 This is a major problem, which we plan to address in a future release
|
|
|
2049 of XEmacs. Basically, XEmacs should have primitives to be told
|
|
|
2050 whether the terminal can handle international output, and which
|
|
|
2051 locale. Also, it should be able to do approximations of characters to
|
|
|
2052 the nearest supported by the locale.
|
|
|
2053
|
|
197
|
2054 ** Internationalized (Asian) Isearch doesn't work.
|
|
144
|
2055
|
|
|
2056 Currently, Isearch doesn't directly support any of the input methods
|
|
|
2057 that are not XIM based (like egg, canna and quail) (and there are
|
|
223
|
2058 potential problems with XIM version too...). If you're using egg
|
|
|
2059 there is a workaround. Hitting <RET> right after C-s to invoke
|
|
|
2060 Isearch will put Isearch in string mode, where a complete string can
|
|
|
2061 be typed into the minibuffer and then processed by Isearch afterwards.
|
|
|
2062 Since egg is now supported in the minibuffer using string mode you can
|
|
|
2063 now use egg to input your Japanese, Korean or Chinese string, then hit
|
|
|
2064 return to send that to Isearch and then use standard Isearch commands
|
|
|
2065 from there.
|
|
144
|
2066
|
|
223
|
2067 ** Using egg and mousing around while in 'fence' mode screws up my
|
|
|
2068 buffer.
|
|
144
|
2069
|
|
|
2070 Don't do this. The fence modes of egg and canna are currently very
|
|
|
2071 modal, and messing with where they expect point to be and what they
|
|
|
2072 think is the current buffer is just asking for trouble. If you're
|
|
|
2073 lucky they will realize that something is awry, and simply delete the
|
|
|
2074 fence, but worst case can trash other buffers too. We've tried to
|
|
|
2075 protect against this where we can, but there still are many ways to
|
|
|
2076 shoot yourself in the foot. So just finish what you are typing into
|
|
|
2077 the fence before reaching for the mouse.
|
|
223
|
2078
|
|
|
2079 ** Not all languages in Quail are supported like Devanagari and Indian
|
|
|
2080 languages, Lao and Tibetan.
|
|
|
2081
|
|
|
2082 Quail requires more work and testing. Although it has been ported to
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2083 XEmacs, it works really well for Japanese and for the European
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2084 languages.
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2085
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2086 ** Right-to-left mode is not yet implemented, so languages like
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2087 Arabic, Hebrew and Thai don't work.
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2088
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2089 Getting this right requires more work. It may be implemented in a
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2090 future XEmacs version, but don't hold your breath. If you know
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2091 someone who is ready to implement this, please let us know.
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2092
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2093 ** We need more developers and native language testers. It's extremely
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2094 difficult (and not particularly productive) to address languages that
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2095 nobody is using and testing.
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2096
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2097 ** The kWnn and cWnn support for Chinese and Korean needs developers
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2098 and testers. It probably doesn't work.
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2099
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2100 ** There are no `native XEmacs' TUTORIALs for any Asian languages,
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2101 including Japanese. FSF Emacs and XEmacs tutorials are quite similar,
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2102 so it should be sufficient to skim through the differences and apply
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2103 them to the Japanese version.
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2104
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2105 ** We only have localized menus translated for Japanese, and the
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2106 Japanese menus are developing bitrot (the Mule menu appears in
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2107 English).
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2108
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2109 ** XIM is untested for any language other than Japanese.
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