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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:47:10 +0000 |
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25853 | 1 This file describes various problems that have been encountered |
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2 in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. Try doing Ctl-C Ctl-t |
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3 and browsing through the outline headers. |
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4 |
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5 * Emacs startup failures |
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7 ** Emacs fails to start, complaining about missing fonts. |
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9 A typical error message might be something like |
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11 No fonts match `-*-fixed-medium-r-*--6-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' |
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13 This happens because some X resource specifies a bad font family for |
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14 Emacs to use. The possible places where this specification might be |
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15 are: |
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17 - in your ~/.Xdefaults file |
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19 - client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or |
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20 /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Emacs or |
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21 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs |
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22 |
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23 One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a |
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24 fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find |
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25 the problematic line(s) and correct them. |
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26 |
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27 ** Emacs aborts while starting up, only when run without X. |
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29 This problem often results from compiling Emacs with GCC when GCC was |
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30 installed incorrectly. The usual error in installing GCC is to |
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31 specify --includedir=/usr/include. Installation of GCC makes |
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32 corrected copies of the system header files. GCC is supposed to use |
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33 the corrected copies in preference to the original system headers. |
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34 Specifying --includedir=/usr/include causes the original system header |
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35 files to be used. On some systems, the definition of ioctl in the |
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36 original system header files is invalid for ANSI C and causes Emacs |
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37 not to work. |
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39 The fix is to reinstall GCC, and this time do not specify --includedir |
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40 when you configure it. Then recompile Emacs. Specifying --includedir |
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41 is appropriate only in very special cases and it should *never* be the |
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42 same directory where system header files are kept. |
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44 ** Emacs does not start, complaining that it cannot open termcap database file. |
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46 If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern |
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47 systems do), this could happen if the proper version of |
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48 ncurses is not visible to the Emacs configure script (i.e. it |
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49 cannot be found along the usual path the linker looks for |
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50 libraries). It can happen because your version of ncurses is |
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51 obsolete, or is available only in form of binaries. |
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53 The solution is to install an up-to-date version of ncurses in |
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54 the developer's form (header files, static libraries and |
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55 symbolic links); in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Debian) |
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56 it constitutes a separate package. |
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58 ** Emacs 20 and later fails to load Lisp files at startup. |
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60 The typical error message might be like this: |
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62 "Cannot open load file: fontset" |
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64 This could happen if you compress the file lisp/subdirs.el. That file |
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65 tells Emacs what are the directories where it should look for Lisp |
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66 files. Emacs cannot work with subdirs.el compressed, since the |
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67 Auto-compress mode it needs for this will not be loaded until later, |
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68 when your .emacs file is processed. (The package `fontset.el' is |
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69 required to set up fonts used to display text on window systems, and |
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70 it's loaded very early in the startup procedure.) |
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72 Similarly, any other .el file for which there's no corresponding .elc |
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73 file could fail to load if it is compressed. |
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75 The solution is to uncompress all .el files which don't have a .elc |
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76 file. |
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78 Another possible reason for such failures is stale *.elc files |
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79 lurking somewhere on your load-path. The following command will |
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80 print any duplicate Lisp files that are present in load-path: |
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82 emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows |
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84 If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale, |
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85 and should be deleted or their directories removed from your |
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86 load-path. |
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88 ** Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version. |
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90 An example of such an error is: |
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92 x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" |
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94 This can be another symptom of stale *.elc files in your load-path. |
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95 The following command will print any duplicate Lisp files that are |
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98 emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows |
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100 If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale, |
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101 and should be deleted or their directories removed from your |
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104 ** With X11R6.4, public-patch-3, Emacs crashes at startup. |
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106 Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem. |
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108 --- xc/lib/X11/imInt.c~ Wed Jun 30 13:31:56 1999 |
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109 +++ xc/lib/X11/imInt.c Thu Jul 1 15:10:27 1999 |
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111 -/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */ |
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112 +/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */ |
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113 /****************************************************************** |
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115 Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by FUJITSU LIMITED |
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162 This has been tracked to a bug in tar! People report that tar erroneously |
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167 If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to |
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171 libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1. |
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172 Configure checks for the correct version, but this problem could occur |
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179 terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo. |
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181 version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses |
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182 and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this. |
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185 problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses |
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190 If you are using Exceed 6.1, upgrade to a later version. This was |
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195 It crashes on X, but runs fine when called with option "-nw". |
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197 This has been observed when Emacs is linked with GNU ld but without passing |
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198 the -z nocombreloc flag. Emacs normally knows to pass the -z nocombreloc |
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199 flag when needed, so if you come across a situation where the flag is |
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200 necessary but missing, please report it via M-x report-emacs-bug. |
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212 Then the old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes |
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222 ~/.emacs is your Emacs init file. |
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223 EMACSLOADPATH overrides which directories the function |
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224 "load" will search. |
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227 of them, then try again. |
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229 *** Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error. |
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231 The error message might be something like this: |
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236 built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch |
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240 *** Buffers from `with-output-to-temp-buffer' get set up in Help mode. |
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242 Changes in Emacs 20.4 to the hooks used by that function cause |
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243 problems for some packages, specifically BBDB. See the function's |
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244 documentation for the hooks involved. BBDB 2.00.06 fixes the problem. |
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246 *** The Hyperbole package causes *Help* buffers not to be displayed in |
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247 Help mode due to setting `temp-buffer-show-hook' rather than using |
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248 `add-hook'. Using `(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook |
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249 'help-mode-maybe)' after loading Hyperbole should fix this. |
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253 *** "Compose Character" key does strange things when used as a Meta key. |
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255 If you define one key to serve as both Meta and Compose Character, you |
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259 character composition in the standard X way. This means that you |
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262 You can use both functions (Meta, and Compose Character) if you assign |
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263 them to two different keys. |
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265 *** C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs. |
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267 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even |
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268 though the system itself is capable of it. Either use a different shell, |
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269 or set the variable `cannot-suspend' to a non-nil value. |
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271 *** With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice |
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272 to do incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response. |
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274 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit, |
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275 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use |
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276 another escape character in kermit. One user did |
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280 in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character. |
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282 ** Mailers and other helper programs |
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284 *** movemail compiled with POP support can't connect to the POP server. |
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286 Make sure that the `pop' entry in /etc/services, or in the services |
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287 NIS map if your machine uses NIS, has the same port number as the |
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288 entry on the POP server. A common error is for the POP server to be |
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289 listening on port 110, the assigned port for the POP3 protocol, while |
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290 the client is trying to connect on port 109, the assigned port for the |
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293 *** RMAIL gets error getting new mail. |
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295 RMAIL gets new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program |
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296 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using |
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297 the protocol defined by /bin/mail. |
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300 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file; |
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301 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do |
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302 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining, |
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303 the macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes. |
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304 IF YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR |
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305 SYSTEM, YOU CAN LOSE MAIL! |
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307 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions |
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308 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail, |
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309 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as |
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310 `mail'. You can use these commands (as root): |
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313 chmod 2755 movemail |
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316 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail, |
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317 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as |
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318 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing the |
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324 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an |
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327 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and |
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328 mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build |
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329 directory copy is ineffective. |
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331 *** rcs2log gives you the awk error message "too many fields". |
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333 This is due to an arbitrary limit in certain versions of awk. |
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334 The solution is to use gawk (GNU awk). |
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344 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the |
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346 similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses. |
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348 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with |
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349 the nameserver, but Emacs does not. |
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356 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a, |
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357 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to |
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358 do this is to add to config.h a definition of LIBS_SYSTEM, LIBS_MACHINE |
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359 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro |
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360 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries, |
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361 be careful not to lose the others. |
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363 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h: |
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367 Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that |
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368 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h |
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371 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar |
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375 You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name, |
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376 either in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system |
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377 calls for specifying this. |
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379 If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable |
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380 mail-host-address to the value you want. |
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387 This can happen on certain systems when you are using NFS, if the |
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388 remote disk is full. It is due to a bug in NFS (or certain NFS |
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389 implementations), and there is apparently nothing Emacs can do to |
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391 calls involved in writing a file, including `close'; but in the case |
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392 where the problem occurs, none of those system calls fails. |
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394 *** Editing files through RFS gives spurious "file has changed" warnings. |
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395 It is possible that a change in Emacs 18.37 gets around this problem, |
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396 but in case not, here is a description of how to fix the RFS bug that |
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397 causes it. |
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399 There was a serious pair of bugs in the handling of the fsync() system |
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403 close() system call (!!). It appears that fsync() is not used by very |
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404 many programs; Emacs version 18 does an fsync() before closing files |
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405 to make sure that the bits are on the disk. |
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407 This is fixed by the enclosed patch to the RFS server. |
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409 The second, more serious problem, is that fsync() is treated as a |
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410 non-blocking system call (i.e., it's implemented as a message that |
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411 gets sent to the remote system without waiting for a reply). Fsync is |
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412 a useful tool for building atomic file transactions. Implementing it |
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413 as a non-blocking RPC call (when the local call blocks until the sync |
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414 is done) is a bad idea; unfortunately, changing it will break the RFS |
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423 *** /tmp/,RCSt1003677 Wed Jan 28 15:15:02 1987 |
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425 *************** |
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427 /* |
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431 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]); |
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438 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close) |
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439 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]); |
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446 `before-change-function' and `after-change-function', which are no |
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455 HTML page and then start to work with SGML or XML file. html-mode |
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460 (alpha) fail to parse DTD files correctly in Emacs 20.3 and later. |
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477 | |
478 You should not be using a version older than 11.52 if you can avoid | |
479 it. | |
480 | |
481 *** Emacs 21 freezes when visiting a TeX file with AUCTeX installed. | |
482 | |
483 Emacs 21 needs version 10 or later of AUCTeX; upgrading should solve | |
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484 these problems. |
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488 Upgrade to AUC TeX version 10 or later, and make sure it is |
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489 byte-compiled with Emacs 21. |
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496 directory, some versions of the CVS program return an ambiguous message |
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497 from which PCL-CVS cannot extract the full location of the committed |
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502 This can happen with CVS versions 1.12.8 and 1.12.9. Upgrade to CVS |
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503 1.12.10 or newer to fix this problem. |
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507 *** Self-documentation messages are garbled. |
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509 This means that the file `etc/DOC-...' doesn't properly correspond |
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511 corresponding pair of files should fix the problem. |
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516 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP |
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517 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to |
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521 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP |
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522 in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets |
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523 it only if it is undefined. |
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525 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file |
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527 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not |
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528 happen in a non-login shell. |
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530 *** In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line. |
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532 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too |
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533 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns |
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534 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the |
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535 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file: |
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538 if ($EMACS == "t") then |
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539 unset edit |
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540 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z |
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542 endif |
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544 *** Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is slow. |
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546 This can happen if the system is misconfigured and Emacs can't get the |
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547 full qualified domain name, FQDN. You should have your FQDN in the |
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553 The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems. |
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555 *** Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails. |
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557 If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not |
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558 representable", then this could happen when `lukemftp' is used as the |
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559 ftp client. This was reported to happen on Debian GNU/Linux, kernel |
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560 version 2.4.3, with `lukemftp' 1.5-5, but might happen on other |
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561 systems as well. To avoid this problem, switch to using the standard |
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566 and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp. |
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568 *** JPEG images aren't displayed. |
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570 This has been reported when Emacs is built with jpeg-6a library. |
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571 Upgrading to jpeg-6b solves the problem. Configure checks for the |
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572 correct version, but this problem could occur if a binary built |
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573 against a shared libjpeg is run on a system with an older version. |
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575 *** Dired is very slow. |
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577 This could happen if invocation of the `df' program takes a long |
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580 - ClearCase mounted filesystems (VOBs) that sometimes make `df' |
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581 response time extremely slow (dozens of seconds); |
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583 - slow automounters on some old versions of Unix; |
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585 - slow operation of some versions of `df'. |
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587 To work around the problem, you could either (a) set the variable |
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589 invoking `df'; (b) use `df' from the GNU Fileutils package; or |
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592 *** Versions of the W3 package released before Emacs 21.1 don't run |
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593 under Emacs 21. This fixed in W3 version 4.0pre.47. |
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595 *** The LDAP support rely on ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 2. |
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597 It can fail to work with ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 1. |
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598 Version 1 of OpenLDAP is now deprecated. If you are still using it, |
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599 please upgrade to version 2. As a temporary workaround, remove |
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600 argument "-x" from the variable `ldap-ldapsearch-args'. |
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602 *** ps-print commands fail to find prologue files ps-prin*.ps. |
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604 This can happen if you use an old version of X-Symbol package: it |
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605 defines compatibility functions which trick ps-print into thinking it |
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606 runs in XEmacs, and look for the prologue files in a wrong directory. |
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608 The solution is to upgrade X-Symbol to a later version. |
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610 *** On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors |
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611 from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some |
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612 shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support. |
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613 These errors mean Emacs has been linked with a library whose shared |
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614 library is not in the default search path of the dynamic linker. |
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616 Similar problems could prevent Emacs from building, since the build |
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617 process invokes Emacs several times. |
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619 On many systems, it is possible to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your |
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623 Other systems allow to set LD_RUN_PATH in a similar way, but before |
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624 Emacs is linked. With LD_RUN_PATH set, the linker will include a |
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625 specified run-time search path in the executable. |
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627 On some systems, Emacs can crash due to problems with dynamic |
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628 linking. Specifically, on SGI Irix 6.5, crashes were reported with |
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629 backtraces like this: |
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632 0 strcmp(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) ["/xlv22/ficus-jan23/work/irix/lib/libc/libc_n32_M3_ns/strings/strcmp.s":35, 0xfb7e480] |
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633 1 general_find_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) |
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634 ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":2140, 0xfb65a98] |
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635 2 resolve_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x0, 0xfbdd438, 0x0, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) |
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636 ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":1947, 0xfb657e4] |
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637 3 lazy_text_resolve(0xd18, 0x1a3, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) |
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639 4 _rld_text_resolve(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) |
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642 (`rld' is the dynamic linker.) We don't know yet why this |
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647 Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details. |
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649 *** You request inverse video, and the first Emacs frame is in inverse |
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650 video, but later frames are not in inverse video. |
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652 This can happen if you have an old version of the custom library in |
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653 your search path for Lisp packages. Use M-x list-load-path-shadows to |
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654 check whether this is true. If it is, delete the old custom library. |
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658 This can happen if you compiled the Ispell program to use ASCII |
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659 characters only and then try to use it from Emacs with non-ASCII |
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660 characters, like Latin-1. The solution is to recompile Ispell with |
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661 support for 8-bit characters. |
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663 To see whether your Ispell program supports 8-bit characters, type |
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664 this at your shell's prompt: |
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669 "!NO8BIT (8BIT)", your speller supports 8-bit characters; otherwise it |
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672 To rebuild Ispell with 8-bit character support, edit the local.h file |
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673 in the Ispell distribution and make sure it does _not_ define NO8BIT. |
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677 version of Ispell installed on your machine is old. Upgrade. |
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683 spelling and the dictionary used by Ispell conform to each other. |
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700 You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts. |
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709 of this character to display a space. |
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711 ** Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines. |
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713 You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution. |
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715 ** Certain fonts make each line take one pixel more than it "should". |
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717 This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller |
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719 lines do not overlap. |
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721 ** Loading fonts is very slow. |
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723 You might be getting scalable fonts instead of precomputed bitmaps. |
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724 Known scalable font directories are "Type1" and "Speedo". A font |
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725 directory contains scalable fonts if it contains the file |
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728 If this is so, re-order your X windows font path to put the scalable |
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729 font directories last. See the documentation of `xset' for details. |
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731 With some X servers, it may be necessary to take the scalable font |
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732 directories out of your path entirely, at least for Emacs 19.26. |
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733 Changes in the future may make this unnecessary. |
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735 ** Font Lock displays portions of the buffer in incorrect faces. |
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737 By far the most frequent cause of this is a parenthesis `(' or a brace |
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738 `{' in column zero. Font Lock assumes that such a paren is outside of |
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739 any comment or string. This is of course not true in general, but the |
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740 vast majority of well-formatted program source files don't have such |
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741 parens, and therefore this assumption is used to allow optimizations |
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742 in Font Lock's syntactical analysis. These optimizations avoid some |
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743 pathological cases where jit-lock, the Just-in-Time fontification |
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744 introduced with Emacs 21.1, could significantly slow down scrolling |
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745 through the buffer, especially scrolling backwards, and also jumping |
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746 to the end of a very large buffer. |
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751 indentation) and should be moved or escaped with a backslash. |
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753 If you don't use large buffers, or have a very fast machine which |
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755 fontification by setting the variable |
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757 be done _after_ turning on Font Lock.) |
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759 Another alternative is to avoid a paren in column zero. For example, |
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760 in a Lisp string you could precede the paren with a backslash. |
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762 ** With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the |
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763 character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead. |
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765 One user on a Linux-based GNU system reported that this problem went |
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766 away with installation of a new X server. The failing server was |
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767 XFree86 3.1.1. XFree86 3.1.2 works. |
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779 application with problem must be recompiled with the same version |
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783 ** Emacs pauses for several seconds when changing the default font. |
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785 This has been reported for fvwm 2.2.5 and the window manager of KDE |
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786 2.1. The reason for the pause is Xt waiting for a ConfigureNotify |
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787 event from the window manager, which the window manager doesn't send. |
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788 Xt stops waiting after a default timeout of usually 5 seconds. |
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795 frame's parameter list, like this: |
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803 This is caused by fonts having a wrong UNDERLINE_POSITION property. |
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804 Examples are the font 7x13 on XFree prior to version 4.1, or the jmk |
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805 neep font from the Debian xfonts-jmk package. To circumvent this |
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806 problem, set x-use-underline-position-properties to nil in your |
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810 type `xlsfonts -lll FONT' and look at the font's UNDERLINE_POSITION |
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821 To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution" |
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822 feature (in the font part of the configuration window). |
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824 * Internationalization problems |
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826 ** Characters from the mule-unicode charsets aren't displayed under X. |
47994 | 827 |
828 XFree86 4 contains many fonts in iso10646-1 encoding which have | |
51316 | 829 minimal character repertoires (whereas the encoding part of the font |
830 name is meant to be a reasonable indication of the repertoire | |
831 according to the XLFD spec). Emacs may choose one of these to display | |
832 characters from the mule-unicode charsets and then typically won't be | |
833 able to find the glyphs to display many characters. (Check with C-u | |
834 C-x = .) To avoid this, you may need to use a fontset which sets the | |
835 font for the mule-unicode sets explicitly. E.g. to use GNU unifont, | |
836 include in the fontset spec: | |
47994 | 837 |
838 mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ | |
839 mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ | |
840 mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1 | |
841 | |
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842 ** The UTF-8/16/7 coding systems don't encode CJK (Far Eastern) characters. |
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844 Emacs directly supports the Unicode BMP whose code points are in the |
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845 ranges 0000-33ff and e000-ffff, and indirectly supports the parts of |
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846 CJK characters belonging to these legacy charsets: |
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848 GB2312, Big5, JISX0208, JISX0212, JISX0213-1, JISX0213-2, KSC5601 |
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850 The latter support is done in Utf-Translate-Cjk mode (turned on by |
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851 default). Which Unicode CJK characters are decoded into which Emacs |
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852 charset is decided by the current language environment. For instance, |
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853 in Chinese-GB, most of them are decoded into chinese-gb2312. |
51316 | 854 |
855 If you read UTF-8 data with code points outside these ranges, the | |
856 characters appear in the buffer as raw bytes of the original UTF-8 | |
857 (composed into a single quasi-character) and they will be written back | |
858 correctly as UTF-8, assuming you don't break the composed sequences. | |
859 If you read such characters from UTF-16 or UTF-7 data, they are | |
860 substituted with the Unicode `replacement character', and you lose | |
861 information. | |
862 | |
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46677 | 864 |
865 Changes to Emacs internals interact badly with Mule-UCS's `un-define' | |
866 library, which is the usual interface to Mule-UCS. Apply the | |
867 following patch to Mule-UCS 0.84 and rebuild it. That will help, | |
868 though loading will still be slower than in Emacs 20. (Some | |
869 distributions, such as Debian, may already have applied such a patch.) | |
870 | |
871 --- lisp/un-define.el 6 Mar 2001 22:41:38 -0000 1.30 | |
872 +++ lisp/un-define.el 19 Apr 2002 18:34:26 -0000 | |
873 @@ -610,13 +624,21 @@ by calling post-read-conversion and pre- | |
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46677 | 875 (mapcar |
876 (lambda (x) | |
877 - (mapcar | |
878 - (lambda (y) | |
879 - (mucs-define-coding-system | |
880 - (nth 0 y) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y) | |
881 - (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y) (nth 6 y)) | |
882 - (coding-system-put (car y) 'alias-coding-systems (list (car x)))) | |
883 - (cdr x))) | |
884 + (if (fboundp 'register-char-codings) | |
885 + ;; Mule 5, where we don't need the eol-type specified and | |
886 + ;; register-char-codings may be very slow for these coding | |
887 + ;; system definitions. | |
888 + (let ((y (cadr x))) | |
889 + (mucs-define-coding-system | |
890 + (car x) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y) | |
891 + (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y))) | |
892 + (mapcar | |
893 + (lambda (y) | |
894 + (mucs-define-coding-system | |
895 + (nth 0 y) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y) | |
896 + (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y) (nth 6 y)) | |
897 + (coding-system-put (car y) 'alias-coding-systems (list (car x))))) | |
898 + (cdr x))) | |
899 `((utf-8 | |
900 (utf-8-unix | |
901 ?u "UTF-8 coding system" | |
902 | |
903 Note that Emacs has native support for Unicode, roughly equivalent to | |
904 Mule-UCS's, so you may not need it. | |
905 | |
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908 Emacs of old versions and XEmacs byte-compile the form `(progn progn |
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910 later process that form just as interpreter does, that is, as `progn' |
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911 variable reference. Apply the following patch to Mule-UCS 0.84 to |
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912 make it compiled by the latest Emacs. |
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914 --- mucs-ccl.el 2 Sep 2005 00:42:23 -0000 1.1.1.1 |
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917 (mucs-notify-embedment 'mucs-ccl-required name) |
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918 (setq ccl-pgm-list (cdr ccl-pgm-list))) |
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919 ; (message "MCCLREGFIN:%S" result) |
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921 - (setq mucs-ccl-facility-alist |
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923 - ,@result))) |
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924 + ;; The only way the function is used in this package is included |
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925 + ;; in `mucs-package-definition-end-hook' value, where it must |
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926 + ;; return (possibly empty) *list* of forms. Do this. Do not rely |
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927 + ;; on byte compiler to remove extra `progn's in `(progn ...)' |
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928 + ;; form. |
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933 ;;; Add hook for embedding translation informations to a package. |
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936 ** Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _. |
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938 Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with |
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939 other sizes as well, your text is corrupted, probably through software |
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940 that is not 8-bit clean. If the problem goes away with another font |
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941 size, it's probably because some fonts pretend to be ISO-8859-1 fonts |
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942 when they are really ASCII fonts. In particular the schumacher-clean |
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943 fonts have this bug in some versions of X. |
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945 To see what glyphs are included in a font, use `xfd', like this: |
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947 xfd -fn -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 |
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949 If this shows only ASCII glyphs, the font is indeed the source of the |
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952 The solution is to remove the corresponding lines from the appropriate |
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953 `fonts.alias' file, then run `mkfontdir' in that directory, and then run |
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954 `xset fp rehash'. |
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956 ** The `oc-unicode' package doesn't work with Emacs 21. |
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957 |
36813 | 958 This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free |
51132 | 959 slots now. The current built-in Unicode support is actually more |
960 flexible. (Use option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' if you need CJK | |
961 support.) Files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode aren't | |
962 generally read correctly by Emacs 21. | |
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964 ** After a while, Emacs slips into unibyte mode. |
25853 | 965 |
966 The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does | |
967 (standard-display-european t) | |
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25853 | 969 (standard-display-european 1 t) |
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971 * X runtime problems |
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973 ** X keyboard problems |
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975 *** You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key. |
25853 | 976 |
977 This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym | |
978 Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11 | |
979 character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key | |
980 to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap. | |
981 | |
982 For example, here's one way to turn it into a Meta key: | |
983 | |
984 xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Meta_L" | |
985 | |
986 If all users at your site of a particular keyboard prefer Meta to | |
987 Compose, you can make the remapping happen automatically by adding the | |
988 xmodmap command to the xdm setup script for that display. | |
989 | |
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996 Fedora Core 4 steals the C-SPC key by default for the `iiimx' program |
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1010 See if your X server is set up to use this as a command |
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1015 This happens because some X configurations assign the Ctrl-Shift-t |
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1022 you want to be able to bind one of these key sequences within Emacs. |
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1026 These may have been intercepted by your window manager. In |
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1027 particular, AfterStep 1.6 is reported to steal C-v in its default |
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1028 configuration. Various Meta keys are also likely to be taken by the |
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1029 configuration of the `feel'. See the WM's documentation for how to |
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1034 This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know |
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1035 a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured |
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1036 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work. |
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1040 | |
1041 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it | |
1042 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is | |
1043 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c | |
1044 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event | |
1045 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you | |
1046 have made the key binding correctly. | |
1047 | |
1048 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may | |
1049 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X | |
1050 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by | |
1051 default. | |
1052 | |
1053 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows: | |
1054 | |
1055 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L' | |
1056 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R' | |
1057 | |
1058 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those | |
1059 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you | |
1060 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any | |
1061 modifier bit not otherwise used. | |
1062 | |
1063 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other | |
1064 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or | |
1065 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the | |
1066 commands show above to make them modifier keys. | |
1067 | |
1068 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt | |
1069 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs. | |
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1073 *** Gnome: Emacs' xterm-mouse-mode doesn't work on the Gnome terminal. |
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1075 A symptom of this bug is that double-clicks insert a control sequence |
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1076 into the buffer. The reason this happens is an apparent |
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1077 incompatibility of the Gnome terminal with Xterm, which also affects |
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1078 other programs using the Xterm mouse interface. A problem report has |
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1081 *** KDE: When running on KDE, colors or fonts are not as specified for Emacs, |
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1082 or messed up. |
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1084 For example, you could see background you set for Emacs only in the |
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1085 empty portions of the Emacs display, while characters have some other |
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1088 This happens because KDE's defaults apply its color and font |
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1089 definitions even to applications that weren't compiled for KDE. The |
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1090 solution is to uncheck the "Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE apps" |
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1091 option in Preferences->Look&Feel->Style (KDE 2). In KDE 3, this option |
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1092 is in the "Colors" section, rather than "Style". |
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1094 Alternatively, if you do want the KDE defaults to apply to other |
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1095 applications, but not to Emacs, you could modify the file `Emacs.ad' |
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1096 (should be in the `/usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/' directory) |
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1098 Emacs. For example, make sure the following resources are either not |
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1123 To change, go in to "Desktop Controls" -> "Window Style Manager" |
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1133 one of these, it may not work to dynamically link with another one. |
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1135 "C-x 1", were reported when Emacs compiled with Xaw3d and libXaw was |
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1139 want to use, or set LD_PRELOAD to preload the same toolkit version you |
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1142 *** Open Motif: Problems with file dialogs in Emacs built with Open Motif. |
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1145 graphical file dialog boxes do not work properly. The "OK", "Filter" |
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1146 and "Cancel" buttons do not respond to mouse clicks. Dragging the |
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1147 file dialog window usually causes the buttons to work again. |
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1149 The solution is to use LessTif instead. LessTif is a free replacement |
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1150 for Motif. See the file INSTALL for information on how to do this. |
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1152 Another workaround is not to use the mouse to trigger file prompts, |
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1153 but to use the keyboard. This way, you will be prompted for a file in |
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1156 *** LessTif: Problems in Emacs built with LessTif. |
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1158 The problems seem to depend on the version of LessTif and the Motif |
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1159 emulation for which it is set up. |
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1161 Only the Motif 1.2 emulation seems to be stable enough in LessTif. |
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1162 Lesstif 0.92-17's Motif 1.2 emulation seems to work okay on FreeBSD. |
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1163 On GNU/Linux systems, lesstif-0.92.6 configured with "./configure |
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1164 --enable-build-12 --enable-default-12" is reported to be the most |
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1165 successful. The binary GNU/Linux package |
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1166 lesstif-devel-0.92.0-1.i386.rpm was reported to have problems with |
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1167 menu placement. |
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1170 locks up, grabbing all mouse and keyboard events. We still don't know |
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1171 what causes these problems; they are not reproducible by Emacs |
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1172 developers. |
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1174 *** Motif: The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color. |
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1176 This has been observed to result from the following X resource: |
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1178 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* |
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1180 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we |
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1181 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can |
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1182 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing |
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1183 the resource prevents the problem. |
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1185 ** General X problems |
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1187 *** Redisplay using X11 is much slower than previous Emacs versions. |
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1189 We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when |
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1190 scroll bars are on the left. We don't know why this happens. If this |
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1191 happens to you, you can work around it by putting the scroll bars |
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1194 Here's how to do this: |
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1198 If you're not sure whether (or how much) this problem affects you, |
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1199 try that and see how much difference it makes. To set things back |
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1204 *** Error messages about undefined colors on X. |
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1206 The messages might say something like this: |
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1208 Unable to load color "grey95" |
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1210 (typically, in the `*Messages*' buffer), or something like this: |
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1212 Error while displaying tooltip: (error Undefined color lightyellow) |
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1214 These problems could happen if some other X program has used up too |
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1215 many colors of the X palette, leaving Emacs with insufficient system |
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1216 resources to load all the colors it needs. |
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1218 A solution is to exit the offending X programs before starting Emacs. |
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1220 *** Improving performance with slow X connections. |
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1222 There are several ways to improve this performance, any subset of which can |
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1223 be carried out at the same time: |
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1226 language you use, you can improve performance on WAN links by using |
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1227 the X resource useXIM to turn off use of XIM. This does not affect |
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1228 the use of Emacs' own input methods, which are part of the Leim |
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1231 2) If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider |
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1232 switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar. |
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1234 3) Use ssh to forward the X connection, and enable compression on this |
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1235 forwarded X connection (ssh -XC remotehostname emacs ...). |
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1237 4) Use lbxproxy on the remote end of the connection. This is an interface |
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1239 improves performance dramatically, at the slight expense of correctness |
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1240 of the X protocol. lbxproxy acheives the performance gain by grouping |
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1241 several X requests in one TCP packet and sending them off together, |
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1242 instead of requiring a round-trip for each X request in a seperate |
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1243 packet. The switches that seem to work best for emacs are: |
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1244 -noatomsfile -nowinattr -cheaterrors -cheatevents |
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1245 Note that the -nograbcmap option is known to cause problems. |
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1246 For more about lbxproxy, see: |
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1249 *** Emacs gives the error, Couldn't find per display information. |
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1251 This can result if the X server runs out of memory because Emacs uses |
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1257 *** Emacs does not notice when you release the mouse. |
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1259 There are reports that this happened with (some) Microsoft mice and |
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1266 bring up a submenu (such as Bookmarks or Compare or Apply Patch, in |
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1269 This works on most systems. There is speculation that the failure is |
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1274 *** An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid |
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1277 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as |
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1278 emacs*Cursor: black |
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1279 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something |
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1282 The fix is to correct your X resources. |
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1284 *** Slow startup on X11R6 with X windows. |
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1286 If Emacs takes two minutes to start up on X11R6, see if your X |
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1287 resources specify any Adobe fonts. That causes the type-1 font |
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1288 renderer to start up, even if the font you asked for is not a type-1 |
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1291 One way to avoid this problem is to eliminate the type-1 fonts from |
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1292 your font path, like this: |
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1294 xset -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ |
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1296 *** Pull-down menus appear in the wrong place, in the toolkit version of Emacs. |
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1298 An X resource of this form can cause the problem: |
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1300 Emacs*geometry: 80x55+0+0 |
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1302 This resource is supposed to apply, and does apply, to the menus |
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1303 individually as well as to Emacs frames. If that is not what you |
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1304 want, rewrite the resource. |
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1306 To check thoroughly for such resource specifications, use `xrdb |
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1307 -query' to see what resources the X server records, and also look at |
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1308 the user's ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-* files. |
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1310 *** Emacs running under X Windows does not handle mouse clicks. |
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1311 *** `emacs -geometry 80x20' finds a file named `80x20'. |
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1313 One cause of such problems is having (setq term-file-prefix nil) in | |
1314 your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in | |
1315 the environment. | |
1316 | |
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1317 *** Emacs fails to get default settings from X Windows server. |
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1319 The X library in X11R4 has a bug; it interchanges the 2nd and 3rd | |
1320 arguments to XGetDefaults. Define the macro XBACKWARDS in config.h to | |
1321 tell Emacs to compensate for this. | |
1322 | |
1323 I don't believe there is any way Emacs can determine for itself | |
1324 whether this problem is present on a given system. | |
1325 | |
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1326 *** X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname. |
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1328 People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs | |
1329 not to work with X Windows if DISPLAY is set using a host name. But | |
1330 the problem does not occur if DISPLAY is set to `unix:0.0'. I think | |
1331 the bug has to do with SIGIO or FIONREAD. | |
1332 | |
1333 You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil). | |
1334 However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that | |
1335 you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g. | |
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1339 (setq x-sigio-bug t) | |
1340 | |
1341 in your site-init.el file. | |
1342 | |
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1343 * Runtime problems on character termunals |
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1345 ** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen. |
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1347 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being | |
1348 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes | |
1349 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long | |
1350 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a | |
1351 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a | |
1352 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible | |
1353 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is | |
1354 easy, for a person with at least half a brain. | |
1355 | |
1356 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place: | |
1357 | |
1358 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control | |
1359 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use | |
1360 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible | |
1361 | |
1362 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether | |
1363 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to | |
1364 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an | |
1365 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off | |
1366 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow | |
1367 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on. | |
1368 | |
1369 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it | |
1370 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled | |
1371 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud | |
1372 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print | |
1373 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if | |
1374 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If | |
1375 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a | |
1376 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard | |
1377 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type. | |
1378 | |
1379 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just | |
1380 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control | |
1381 codes. You might as well try it. | |
1382 | |
1383 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer | |
1384 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the | |
1385 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how | |
1386 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow | |
1387 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard), | |
1388 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator | |
1389 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic | |
1390 measures can make Emacs semi-work. | |
1391 | |
1392 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system | |
1393 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x | |
1394 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are | |
1395 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x | |
1396 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow | |
1397 control handling.) | |
1398 | |
1399 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them | |
1400 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose | |
1401 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement | |
1402 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all | |
1403 other control characters are already used by emacs. | |
1404 | |
1405 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled, | |
1406 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in | |
1407 order to continue. | |
1408 | |
1409 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a | |
1410 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function | |
1411 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme | |
1412 automatically. Here is an example: | |
1413 | |
1414 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131") | |
1415 | |
1416 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled | |
1417 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control | |
1418 manually. | |
1419 | |
1420 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the | |
1421 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow | |
1422 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad | |
1423 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming | |
1424 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some | |
1425 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I | |
1426 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake | |
1427 of inferior systems. | |
1428 | |
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1429 ** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely. |
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1431 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow | |
1432 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your | |
1433 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator | |
1434 that wants to use flow control. | |
1435 | |
1436 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control. | |
1437 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without | |
1438 flow control, as described in the preceding section. | |
1439 | |
1440 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters | |
1441 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above | |
1442 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\. | |
1443 | |
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1444 ** Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal. |
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1446 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that | |
1447 terminal is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing | |
1448 the combination of features specified for that terminal. | |
1449 | |
1450 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters | |
1451 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression | |
1452 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all | |
1453 terminal output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do | |
1454 what makes the screen update wrong, and look at the file | |
1455 and decode the characters using the manual for the terminal. | |
1456 There are several possibilities: | |
1457 | |
1458 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual. | |
1459 | |
1460 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you | |
1461 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong. | |
1462 | |
1463 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect | |
1464 of the terminal behavior not described in an obvious way | |
1465 by termcap. | |
1466 | |
1467 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for | |
1468 Emacs to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior | |
1469 and other terminals that behave subtly differently but are | |
1470 classified the same by termcap; or else find an algorithm for | |
1471 Emacs to use that avoids the difference. Such changes must be | |
1472 tested on many kinds of terminals. | |
1473 | |
1474 3) The termcap entry is wrong. | |
1475 | |
1476 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes | |
1477 that are known to be needed in commonly used termcap entries | |
1478 for certain terminals. | |
1479 | |
1480 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be | |
1481 right for any terminal with the termcap entry you were using. | |
1482 | |
1483 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed | |
1484 in termcap.c, tparam.c, term.c, scroll.c, cm.c or dispnew.c. | |
1485 | |
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1494 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the |
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1495 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems, |
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1496 "stty start u stop u" will do this. |
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1498 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way |
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1499 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and |
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1500 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell. |
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1502 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type |
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1503 M-x enable-flow-control at the beginning of your emacs session, or |
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1504 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the |
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1505 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind): |
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1507 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131") |
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1509 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more |
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1510 info. |
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1512 ** Output from Control-V is slow. |
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1514 On many bit-map terminals, scrolling operations are fairly slow. | |
1515 Often the termcap entry for the type of terminal in use fails | |
1516 to inform Emacs of this. The two lines at the bottom of the screen | |
1517 before a Control-V command are supposed to appear at the top after | |
1518 the Control-V command. If Emacs thinks scrolling the lines is fast, | |
1519 it will scroll them to the top of the screen. | |
1520 | |
1521 If scrolling is slow but Emacs thinks it is fast, the usual reason is | |
1522 that the termcap entry for the terminal you are using does not | |
1523 specify any padding time for the `al' and `dl' strings. Emacs | |
1524 concludes that these operations take only as much time as it takes to | |
1525 send the commands at whatever line speed you are using. You must | |
1526 fix the termcap entry to specify, for the `al' and `dl', as much | |
1527 time as the operations really take. | |
1528 | |
1529 Currently Emacs thinks in terms of serial lines which send characters | |
1530 at a fixed rate, so that any operation which takes time for the | |
1531 terminal to execute must also be padded. With bit-map terminals | |
1532 operated across networks, often the network provides some sort of | |
1533 flow control so that padding is never needed no matter how slow | |
1534 an operation is. You must still specify a padding time if you want | |
1535 Emacs to realize that the operation takes a long time. This will | |
1536 cause padding characters to be sent unnecessarily, but they do | |
1537 not really cost much. They will be transmitted while the scrolling | |
1538 is happening and then discarded quickly by the terminal. | |
1539 | |
1540 Most bit-map terminals provide commands for inserting or deleting | |
1541 multiple lines at once. Define the `AL' and `DL' strings in the | |
1542 termcap entry to say how to do these things, and you will have | |
1543 fast output without wasted padding characters. These strings should | |
1544 each contain a single %-spec saying how to send the number of lines | |
1545 to be scrolled. These %-specs are like those in the termcap | |
1546 `cm' string. | |
1547 | |
1548 You should also define the `IC' and `DC' strings if your terminal | |
1549 has a command to insert or delete multiple characters. These | |
1550 take the number of positions to insert or delete as an argument. | |
1551 | |
1552 A `cs' string to set the scrolling region will reduce the amount | |
1553 of motion you see on the screen when part of the screen is scrolled. | |
1554 | |
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1555 ** You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters. |
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1557 Put `stty dec' in your .login file and your problems will disappear | |
1558 after a day or two. | |
1559 | |
1560 The choice of Backspace for erasure was based on confusion, caused by | |
1561 the fact that backspacing causes erasure (later, when you type another | |
1562 character) on most display terminals. But it is a mistake. Deletion | |
1563 of text is not the same thing as backspacing followed by failure to | |
1564 overprint. I do not wish to propagate this confusion by conforming | |
1565 to it. | |
1566 | |
1567 For this reason, I believe `stty dec' is the right mode to use, | |
1568 and I have designed Emacs to go with that. If there were a thousand | |
1569 other control characters, I would define Control-h to delete as well; | |
1570 but there are not very many other control characters, and I think | |
1571 that providing the most mnemonic possible Help character is more | |
1572 important than adapting to people who don't use `stty dec'. | |
1573 | |
1574 If you are obstinate about confusing buggy overprinting with deletion, | |
1575 you can redefine Backspace in your .emacs file: | |
1576 (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char) | |
1577 You can probably access help-command via f1. | |
1578 | |
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1579 ** Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm. |
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1581 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal |
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1582 emulators, but this support relies on the terminfo or termcap database |
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1583 entry to specify that the display supports color. Emacs looks at the |
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1584 "Co" capability for the terminal to find out how many colors are |
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1585 supported; it should be non-zero to activate the color support within |
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1586 Emacs. (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.) If your system |
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1587 uses terminfo, the name of the capability equivalent to "Co" is |
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1588 "colors". |
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1590 In addition to the "Co" capability, Emacs needs the "op" (for |
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1591 ``original pair'') capability, which tells how to switch the terminal |
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1592 back to the default foreground and background colors. Emacs will not |
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1593 use colors if this capability is not defined. If your terminal entry |
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1594 doesn't provide such a capability, try using the ANSI standard escape |
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1595 sequence \E[00m (that is, define a new termcap/terminfo entry and make |
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1596 it use your current terminal's entry plus \E[00m for the "op" |
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1597 capability). |
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1599 Finally, the "NC" capability (terminfo name: "ncv") tells Emacs which |
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1600 attributes cannot be used with colors. Setting this capability |
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1601 incorrectly might have the effect of disabling colors; try setting |
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1602 this capability to `0' (zero) and see if that helps. |
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1604 Emacs uses the database entry for the terminal whose name is the value |
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1605 of the environment variable TERM. With `xterm', a common terminal |
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1606 entry that supports color is `xterm-color', so setting TERM's value to |
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1607 `xterm-color' might activate the color support on an xterm-compatible |
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1608 emulator. |
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1610 Beginning with version 22.1, Emacs supports the --color command-line |
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1611 option which may be used to force Emacs to use one of a few popular |
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1612 modes for getting colors on a tty. For example, --color=ansi8 sets up |
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1613 for using the ANSI-standard escape sequences that support 8 colors. |
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1615 Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the Font-lock mode. |
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1616 Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on |
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1617 Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty. The |
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1618 recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing "M-x |
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1619 global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the variable |
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1620 `global-font-lock-mode'. |
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1622 * Runtime problems specific to individual Unix variants |
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1626 *** GNU/Linux: Process output is corrupted. |
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1628 There is a bug in Linux kernel 2.6.10 PTYs that can cause emacs to |
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1629 read corrupted process output. |
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1631 *** GNU/Linux: Remote access to CVS with SSH causes file corruption. |
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1633 If you access a remote CVS repository via SSH, files may be corrupted |
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1634 due to bad interaction between CVS, SSH, and libc. |
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1636 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it |
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1637 executable, and set CVS_RSH environment variable to the file name of |
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1638 the script: |
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1640 #!/bin/bash |
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1641 exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null) |
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1642 exec ssh "$@" |
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1645 5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault. |
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1647 This problem happens if libc defines the symbol __malloc_initialized. |
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1648 One known solution is to upgrade to a newer libc version. 5.4.33 is |
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1649 known to work. |
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1651 *** GNU/Linux: After upgrading to a newer version of Emacs, |
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1652 the Meta key stops working. |
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1654 This was reported to happen on a GNU/Linux system distributed by |
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1655 Mandrake. The reason is that the previous version of Emacs was |
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1656 modified by Mandrake to make the Alt key act as the Meta key, on a |
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1657 keyboard where the Windows key is the one which produces the Meta |
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1658 modifier. A user who started using a newer version of Emacs, which |
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1660 Meta, and was astonished when that didn't happen. |
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1662 The solution is to find out what key on your keyboard produces the Meta |
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1663 modifier, and use that key instead. Try all of the keys to the left |
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1664 and to the right of the space bar, together with the `x' key, and see |
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1665 which combination produces "M-x" in the echo area. You can also use |
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1666 the `xmodmap' utility to show all the keys which produce a Meta |
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1669 xmodmap -pk | egrep -i "meta|alt" |
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1671 A more convenient way of finding out which keys produce a Meta modifier |
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1672 is to use the `xkbprint' utility, if it's available on your system: |
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1674 xkbprint 0:0 /tmp/k.ps |
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1676 This produces a PostScript file `/tmp/k.ps' with a picture of your |
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1677 keyboard; printing that file on a PostScript printer will show what |
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1678 keys can serve as Meta. |
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1680 The `xkeycaps' also shows a visual representation of the current |
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1681 keyboard settings. It also allows to modify them. |
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1683 *** GNU/Linux: low startup on Linux-based GNU systems. |
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1685 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that |
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1686 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'. |
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1688 This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts. |
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1689 Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to |
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1690 improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both |
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1691 networked and non-networked machines. |
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1693 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root. |
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1695 **** Networked Case. |
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1697 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both |
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1698 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this |
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1699 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name): |
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1701 127.0.0.1 HOSTNAME |
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1703 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following |
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1704 lines: |
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1706 order hosts, bind |
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1707 multi on |
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1709 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be |
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1710 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local |
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1711 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections |
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1712 dynamically allocate ip addresses). |
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1714 **** Non-Networked Case. |
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1716 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well. |
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1717 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a |
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1718 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command |
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1719 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts' |
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1720 file is not necessary with this approach. |
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1722 *** GNU/Linux: Emacs on a tty switches the cursor to large blinking block. |
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1724 This was reported to happen on some GNU/Linux systems which use |
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1725 ncurses version 5.0, but could be relevant for other versions as well. |
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1726 These versions of ncurses come with a `linux' terminfo entry, where |
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1727 the "cvvis" capability (termcap "vs") is defined as "\E[?25h\E[?8c" |
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1728 (show cursor, change size). This escape sequence switches on a |
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1729 blinking hardware text-mode cursor whose size is a full character |
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1730 cell. This blinking cannot be stopped, since a hardware cursor |
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1731 always blinks. |
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1733 A work-around is to redefine the "cvvis" capability so that it |
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1734 enables a *software* cursor. The software cursor works by inverting |
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1735 the colors of the character at point, so what you see is a block |
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1736 cursor that doesn't blink. For this to work, you need to redefine |
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1737 the "cnorm" capability as well, so that it operates on the software |
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1738 cursor instead of the hardware cursor. |
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1740 To this end, run "infocmp linux > linux-term", edit the file |
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1741 `linux-term' to make both the "cnorm" and "cvvis" capabilities send |
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1742 the sequence "\E[?25h\E[?17;0;64c", and then run "tic linux-term" to |
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1743 produce a modified terminfo entry. |
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1745 Alternatively, if you want a blinking underscore as your Emacs cursor, |
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1746 change the "cvvis" capability to send the "\E[?25h\E[?0c" command. |
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1748 *** GNU/Linux: Error messages `internal facep []' happen on GNU/Linux systems. |
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1750 There is a report that replacing libc.so.5.0.9 with libc.so.5.2.16 |
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1751 caused this to start happening. People are not sure why, but the |
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1752 problem seems unlikely to be in Emacs itself. Some suspect that it |
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1753 is actually Xlib which won't work with libc.so.5.2.16. |
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1755 Using the old library version is a workaround. |
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1759 *** Mac OS X (Carbon): Environment Variables from dotfiles are ignored. |
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1761 When starting Emacs from the Dock or the Finder on Mac OS X, the |
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1762 environment variables that are set up in dotfiles, such as .cshrc or |
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1763 .profile, are ignored. This is because the Finder and Dock are not |
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1764 started from a shell, but instead from the Window Manager itself. |
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1766 The workaround for this is to create a .MacOSX/environment.plist file to |
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1767 setup these environment variables. These environment variables will |
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1768 apply to all processes regardless of where they are started. |
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1769 For me information, see http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html. |
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1771 *** Mac OS X (Carbon): Process output truncated when using ptys. |
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1773 There appears to be a problem with the implementation of pty's on the |
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1774 Mac OS X that causes process output to be truncated. To avoid this, |
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1775 leave process-connection-type set to its default value of nil. |
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1779 *** FreeBSD 2.1.5: useless symbolic links remain in /tmp or other |
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1780 directories that have the +t bit. |
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1782 This is because of a kernel bug in FreeBSD 2.1.5 (fixed in 2.2). |
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1783 Emacs uses symbolic links to implement file locks. In a directory |
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1784 with +t bit, the directory owner becomes the owner of the symbolic |
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1785 link, so that it cannot be removed by anyone else. |
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1787 If you don't like those useless links, you can let Emacs not to using |
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1788 file lock by adding #undef CLASH_DETECTION to config.h. |
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1790 *** FreeBSD: Getting a Meta key on the console. |
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1792 By default, neither Alt nor any other key acts as a Meta key on |
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1793 FreeBSD, but this can be changed using kbdcontrol(1). Dump the |
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1794 current keymap to a file with the command |
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1796 $ kbdcontrol -d >emacs.kbd |
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1798 Edit emacs.kbd, and give the key you want to be the Meta key the |
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1799 definition `meta'. For instance, if your keyboard has a ``Windows'' |
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1800 key with scan code 105, change the line for scan code 105 in emacs.kbd |
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1805 to make the Windows key the Meta key. Load the new keymap with |
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1807 $ kbdcontrol -l emacs.kbd |
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1811 *** HP/UX : Shell mode gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous". |
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1813 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says: |
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1815 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to |
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1816 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then |
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1817 tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places, |
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1818 but tty is giving it back 3. |
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1820 The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a single |
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1823 if (`tty` == "/dev/console") |
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1825 should be changed to: |
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1827 if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console") |
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1829 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc |
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1830 and into .login. |
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1832 *** HP/UX: `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'. |
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1834 On HP/UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS |
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1835 file system. HP/UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and |
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1836 does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default |
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1837 value is just ten seconds. |
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1839 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period. |
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1841 *** HP/UX: The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps |
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1842 other non-English HP keyboards too). |
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1844 This is because HP-UX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a |
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1845 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE |
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1846 configures the X server. |
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1848 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF |
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1849 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L |
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1850 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R |
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1851 EOF |
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1853 xmodmap - << EOF |
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1854 clear mod1 |
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1855 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol |
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1856 add mod1 = Meta_L |
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1857 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch |
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1858 add mod2 = Mode_switch |
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1859 EOF |
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1861 *** HP/UX: "Cannot find callback list" messages from dialog boxes in |
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1862 Emacs built with Motif. |
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1864 This problem resulted from a bug in GCC 2.4.5. Newer GCC versions |
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1865 such as 2.7.0 fix the problem. |
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1867 *** HP/UX: Emacs does not recognize the AltGr key. |
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1869 To fix this, set up a file ~/.dt/sessions/sessionetc with executable |
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1870 rights, containing this text: |
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1873 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF |
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1876 EOF |
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1878 xmodmap - << EOF |
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1883 add mod2 = Mode_switch |
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1884 EOF |
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1887 *** HP/UX 11.0: Emacs makes HP/UX 11.0 crash. |
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1889 This is a bug in HPUX; HPUX patch PHKL_16260 is said to fix it. |
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1891 ** AIX |
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1895 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly. |
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1896 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly. |
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1898 *** AIXterm: Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal. |
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1900 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines: |
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1903 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^? |
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1905 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127). |
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1908 are compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5'. If |
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1909 so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure |
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1910 Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'. |
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1912 *** AIX 4.3.x or 4.4: Compiling fails. |
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1914 This could happen if you use /bin/c89 as your compiler, instead of |
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1915 the default `cc'. /bin/c89 treats certain warnings, such as benign |
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1916 redefinitions of macros, as errors, and fails the build. A solution |
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1917 is to use the default compiler `cc'. |
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1919 *** AIX 4: Some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer |
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1920 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown". |
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1922 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default. |
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1923 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal |
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1924 Definitions" to make them defined. |
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1928 We list bugs in current versions here. Solaris 2.x and 4.x are covered in the |
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1929 section on legacy systems. |
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1931 *** On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console. |
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1933 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r |
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1934 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs. |
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1936 *** Problem with remote X server on Suns. |
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1938 On a Sun, running Emacs on one machine with the X server on another |
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1939 may not work if you have used the unshared system libraries. This |
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1940 is because the unshared libraries fail to use YP for host name lookup. |
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1941 As a result, the host name you specify may not be recognized. |
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1943 *** Solaris 2,6: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame. |
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1945 We suspect that this is a bug in the X libraries provided by |
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1946 Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and |
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1947 makes the problem stop: |
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1949 105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02 |
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1950 105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03 |
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1951 106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01 |
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1952 105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01 |
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1954 Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06) |
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1955 suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches: |
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1956 |
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1957 106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch |
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1958 106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes |
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1959 105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch |
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1961 *** Solaris 7 or 8: Emacs reports a BadAtom error (from X) |
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1963 This happens when Emacs was built on some other version of Solaris. |
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1964 Rebuild it on Solaris 8. |
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1966 *** When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down' |
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1967 commands do not move the arrow in Emacs. |
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1969 You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit': |
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1971 dbxenv output_short_file_name off |
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1973 *** On Solaris, CTRL-t is ignored by Emacs when you use |
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1974 the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales). |
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1976 You can fix this by editing the file: |
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1978 /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose |
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1980 Near the bottom there is a line that reads: |
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1982 Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters |
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1984 that should read: |
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1986 Ctrl<T> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters |
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1988 Note the lower case <t>. Changing this line should make C-t work. |
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1990 ** Irix |
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1992 *** Irix 6.5: Emacs crashes on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC. |
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1994 This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95. |
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1996 *** Irix: Trouble using ptys, or running out of ptys. |
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1998 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to |
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1999 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able |
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2000 to allocate ptys reliably. |
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2002 * Runtime problems specific to MS-Windows |
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2004 ** Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for MS-Windows. |
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2006 A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this. |
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2007 Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the |
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2008 problem. |
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2010 ** Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 21.2. |
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2012 Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu |
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2013 is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menus is not |
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2014 displayed at all. This is because message handling under Windows is |
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2015 synchronous, so we cannot handle repaint (or any other) messages while |
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2016 waiting for a system function to return the result of the dialog or |
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2017 pop-up menu interaction. |
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2019 Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text |
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2020 for menus. Help text is only available in later versions of Windows. |
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2022 There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the |
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2023 mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first |
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2024 frame. A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame |
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2025 after moving back into it. |
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2027 Some minor flickering still persists during mouse-tracking, although |
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2028 not as severely as in 21.1. |
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2030 Emacs can sometimes abort when non-ASCII text, possibly with null |
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2031 characters, is copied and pasted into a buffer. |
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2033 An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows |
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2034 Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed. |
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2036 Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.2). Some |
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2037 of these input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded |
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2038 in the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1 |
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2039 characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.). To make this |
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2040 work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after |
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2041 you activate the Windows input method. For example, if you activate |
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2042 the Hebrew input method, type "C-x RET k iso-8859-8 RET". (Emacs |
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2043 ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the |
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2044 appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that |
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2045 yet.) |
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2047 The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated |
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2048 month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions |
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2049 of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system |
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2050 library function. |
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2052 ** Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on MS-Windows. |
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2054 This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If |
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2055 you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt |
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2056 and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way. A |
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2057 more permanent work around is to change it to another key combination, |
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2058 or disable it in the keyboard control panel. |
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2060 ** Interrupting Cygwin port of Bash from Emacs doesn't work. |
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2062 Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the |
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2063 MS-Windows version of Emacs. This is due to some change in the Bash |
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2064 port or in the Cygwin library which apparently make Bash ignore the |
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2065 keyboard interrupt event sent by Emacs to Bash. (Older Cygwin ports |
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2066 of Bash, up to b20.1, did receive SIGINT from Emacs.) |
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2068 ** Accessing remote files with ange-ftp hangs the MS-Windows version of Emacs. |
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2070 If the FTP client is the Cygwin port of GNU `ftp', this appears to be |
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2071 due to some bug in the Cygwin DLL or some incompatibility between it |
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2072 and the implementation of asynchronous subprocesses in the Windows |
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2073 port of Emacs. Specifically, some parts of the FTP server responses |
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2074 are not flushed out, apparently due to buffering issues, which |
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2075 confuses ange-ftp. |
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2077 The solution is to downgrade to an older version of the Cygwin DLL |
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2078 (version 1.3.2 was reported to solve the problem), or use the stock |
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2079 Windows FTP client, usually found in the `C:\WINDOWS' or 'C:\WINNT' |
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2080 directory. To force ange-ftp use the stock Windows client, set the |
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2081 variable `ange-ftp-ftp-program-name' to the absolute file name of the |
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2082 client's executable. For example: |
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2084 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "c:/windows/ftp.exe") |
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2086 If you want to stick with the Cygwin FTP client, you can work around |
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2087 this problem by putting this in your `.emacs' file: |
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2089 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v" "--prompt" "") |
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2091 ** lpr commands don't work on MS-Windows with some cheap printers. |
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2093 This problem may also strike other platforms, but the solution is |
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2094 likely to be a global one, and not Emacs specific. |
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2096 Many cheap inkjet, and even some cheap laser printers, do not |
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2097 print plain text anymore, they will only print through graphical |
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2098 printer drivers. A workaround on MS-Windows is to use Windows' basic |
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2099 built in editor to print (this is possibly the only useful purpose it |
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2102 (setq printer-name "") ;; notepad takes the default |
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2103 (setq lpr-command "notepad") ;; notepad |
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2104 (setq lpr-switches nil) ;; not needed |
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2105 (setq lpr-printer-switch "/P") ;; run notepad as batch printer |
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2107 ** Antivirus software interacts badly with the MS-Windows version of Emacs. |
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2109 The usual manifestation of these problems is that subprocesses don't |
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2110 work or even wedge the entire system. In particular, "M-x shell RET" |
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2111 was reported to fail to work. But other commands also sometimes don't |
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2112 work when an antivirus package is installed. |
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2114 The solution is to switch the antivirus software to a less aggressive |
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2115 mode (e.g., disable the ``auto-protect'' feature), or even uninstall |
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2116 or disable it entirely. |
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2118 ** Pressing the mouse button on MS-Windows does not give a mouse-2 event. |
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2120 This is usually a problem with the mouse driver. Because most Windows |
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2121 programs do not do anything useful with the middle mouse button, many |
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2122 mouse drivers allow you to define the wheel press to do something |
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2123 different. Some drivers do not even have the option to generate a |
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2124 middle button press. In such cases, setting the wheel press to |
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2125 "scroll" sometimes works if you press the button twice. Trying a |
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2126 generic mouse driver might help. |
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2128 ** Scrolling the mouse wheel on MS-Windows always scrolls the top window. |
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2130 This is another common problem with mouse drivers. Instead of |
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2131 generating scroll events, some mouse drivers try to fake scroll bar |
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2132 movement. But they are not intelligent enough to handle multiple |
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2133 scroll bars within a frame. Trying a generic mouse driver might help. |
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2135 ** Mail sent through Microsoft Exchange in some encodings appears to be |
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2136 mangled and is not seen correctly in Rmail or Gnus. We don't know |
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2137 exactly what happens, but it isn't an Emacs problem in cases we've |
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2138 seen. |
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2139 |
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2140 ** On MS-Windows, you cannot use the right-hand ALT key and the left-hand |
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2141 CTRL key together to type a Control-Meta character. |
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2143 This is a consequence of a misfeature beyond Emacs's control. |
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2145 Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key |
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2146 events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl. Since Emacs cannot |
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2147 distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl |
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2148 combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that |
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2149 AltGr has been pressed. The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set |
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2150 to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt. |
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2152 ** Under some X-servers running on MS-Windows, Emacs' display is incorrect. |
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2154 The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the |
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2155 screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective |
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2156 display or when killing a region). M-x recenter will cause the screen |
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2157 to be completely redisplayed and the "extra" characters will disappear. |
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2159 This is known to occur under Exceed 6, and possibly earlier versions |
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2160 as well; it is reportedly solved in version 6.2.0.16 and later. The |
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2161 problem lies in the X-server settings. |
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2163 There are reports that you can solve the problem with Exceed by |
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2164 running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then |
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2165 un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X |
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2166 selection". |
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2168 Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then |
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2169 please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix. |
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2170 If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it |
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2171 here. |
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2173 * Build-time problems |
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2174 |
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2175 ** Configuration |
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2177 *** The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library. |
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2179 There are reports that this happens on some systems because the linker |
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2180 by default only looks for shared libraries, but jpeg distribution by |
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2181 default only installs a nonshared version of the library, `libjpeg.a'. |
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2183 If this is the problem, you can configure the jpeg library with the |
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2184 `--enable-shared' option and then rebuild libjpeg. This produces a |
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2185 shared version of libjpeg, which you need to install. Finally, rerun |
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2186 the Emacs configure script, which should now find the jpeg library. |
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2187 Alternatively, modify the generated src/Makefile to link the .a file |
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2188 explicitly, and edit src/config.h to define HAVE_JPEG. |
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2189 |
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2190 ** Compilation |
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2192 *** Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''. |
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2194 This was reported to happen when building Emacs on a GNU/Linux system |
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2195 (RedHat Linux 6.2) using a build directory automounted from Solaris |
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2196 (SunOS 5.6) file server, but it might not be limited to that |
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2197 configuration alone. Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the |
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2198 files' data to disk quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is |
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2199 left ``busy'' for several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping |
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2200 itself. This causes the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped |
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2201 Emacs executable to fail with the above message. |
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2203 In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the |
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2204 machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make |
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2205 (it says that some of the files have modification time in the future). |
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2206 This might be a symptom of NFS-related problems. |
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2208 If the NFS server runs on Solaris, apply the Solaris patch 105379-05 |
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2209 (Sunos 5.6: /kernel/misc/nfssrv patch). If that doesn't work, or if |
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2210 you have a different version of the OS or the NFS server, you can |
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2211 force the NFS server to use 1KB blocks, which was reported to fix the |
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2212 problem albeit at a price of slowing down file I/O. You can force 1KB |
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2213 blocks by specifying the "-o rsize=1024,wsize=1024" options to the |
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2214 `mount' command, or by adding ",rsize=1024,wsize=1024" to the mount |
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2215 options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as |
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2216 `/etc/auto.home'. |
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2218 Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for |
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2219 a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case, |
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2220 waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed |
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2221 to work around the problem. |
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2223 Similar problems can happen if your machine NFS-mounts a directory |
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2224 onto itself. Suppose the Emacs sources live in `/usr/local/src' and |
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2225 you are working on the host called `marvin'. Then an entry in the |
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2226 `/etc/fstab' file like the following is asking for trouble: |
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2228 marvin:/usr/local/src /usr/local/src ...options.omitted... |
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2230 The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'. |
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2232 *** Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory. |
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2234 This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one |
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2235 of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released |
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2236 version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those |
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2237 dates; similar problems were reported with some snapshots of GCC 3.1 |
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2238 around Sep 30 2001. The preprocessor in those versions is |
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2239 incompatible with a traditional Unix cpp (e.g., it expands ".." into |
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2240 ". .", which breaks relative file names that reference the parent |
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2241 directory; or inserts TAB characters before lines that set Make |
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2242 variables). |
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2244 The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the |
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2245 `-traditional' option. The `configure' script does that automatically |
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2246 when it detects the known problems in your cpp, but you might hit some |
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2247 unknown ones. To force the `configure' script to use `-traditional', |
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2248 run the script like this: |
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2250 CPP='gcc -E -traditional' ./configure ... |
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2253 the script). |
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2255 Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of |
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2256 Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles. |
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2258 *** src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing. |
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2259 *** Compiling wakeup, in lib-src, says it can't make wakeup.c. |
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2261 This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version |
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2262 had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly.To solve the |
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2263 problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun Emacs's |
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2264 configure script. |
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2266 *** Compiling lib-src says there is no rule to make test-distrib.c. |
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2268 This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed. To solve |
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2269 the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun |
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2270 Emacs's configure script. |
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2272 *** Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail. |
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2274 Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin |
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2275 version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings. It appears to be |
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2276 necessary to specify the -mwin32 flag when compiling, and define |
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2277 __MSVCRT__, like so: |
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2279 configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__ |
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2281 *** Building the MS-Windows port fails with a CreateProcess failure. |
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2283 Some versions of mingw32 make on some versions of Windows do not seem |
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2284 to detect the shell correctly. Try "make SHELL=cmd.exe", or if that |
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2285 fails, try running make from Cygwin bash instead. |
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2287 *** Building the MS-Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory. |
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2289 The error message might be something like this: |
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2291 Converting d:/emacs-21.3/leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit to quail-package... |
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2292 Invalid ENCODE: value in TIT dictionary |
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2293 NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code |
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2294 '0xffffffff' |
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2295 Stop. |
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2297 This can happen if the Leim distribution is unpacked with a program |
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2298 which converts the `*.tit' files to DOS-style CR-LF text format. The |
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2299 `*.tit' files in the leim/CXTERM-DIC directory require Unix-style line |
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2300 endings to compile properly, because Emacs reads them without any code |
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2301 or EOL conversions. |
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2303 The solution is to make sure the program used to unpack Leim does not |
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2304 change the files' line endings behind your back. The GNU FTP site has |
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2305 in the `/gnu/emacs/windows' directory a program called `djtarnt.exe' |
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2306 which can be used to unpack `.tar.gz' and `.zip' archives without |
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2307 mangling them. |
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2309 *** Building `ctags' for MS-Windows with the MinGW port of GCC fails. |
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2311 This might happen due to a bug in the MinGW header assert.h, which |
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2312 defines the `assert' macro with a trailing semi-colon. The following |
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2313 patch to assert.h should solve this: |
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2315 *** include/assert.h.orig Sun Nov 7 02:41:36 1999 |
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2316 --- include/assert.h Mon Jan 29 11:49:10 2001 |
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2317 *************** |
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2318 *** 41,47 **** |
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2319 /* |
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2320 * If not debugging, assert does nothing. |
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2322 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0); |
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2330 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0) |
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2332 #else /* debugging enabled */ |
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2335 ** Linking |
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2337 *** Building Emacs with a system compiler fails to link because of an |
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2338 undefined symbol such as __eprintf which does not appear in Emacs. |
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2340 This can happen if some of the libraries linked into Emacs were built |
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2341 with GCC, but Emacs itself is being linked with a compiler other than |
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2342 GCC. Object files compiled with GCC might need some helper functions |
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2343 from libgcc.a, the library which comes with GCC, but the system |
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2344 compiler does not instruct the linker to search libgcc.a during the |
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2345 link stage. |
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2347 A solution is to link with GCC, like this: |
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2349 make CC=gcc |
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2352 with GCC, but just restart by trying again to link temacs. |
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2354 *** AIX 1.3 ptf 0013: Link failure. |
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2356 There is a real duplicate definition of the function `_slibc_free' in |
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2357 the library /lib/libc_s.a (just do nm on it to verify). The |
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2358 workaround/fix is: |
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2360 cd /lib |
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2361 ar xv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o |
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2362 ar dv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o |
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2364 *** AIX 4.1.2: Linker error messages such as |
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2365 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table |
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2366 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o. |
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2368 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing |
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2369 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where |
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2370 you build Emacs: |
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2372 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a . |
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2373 chmod 664 libIM.a |
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2374 ranlib libIM.a |
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2376 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in |
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2377 Makefile). |
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2379 *** Sun with acc: Link failure when using acc on a Sun. |
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2381 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as |
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2383 /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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2385 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc. |
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2387 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we |
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2388 cannot easily arrange to supply them. |
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2390 *** Linking says that the functions insque and remque are undefined. |
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2392 Change oldXMenu/Makefile by adding insque.o to the variable OBJS. |
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2394 *** `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses. |
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2396 This problem results from an incompatible change in ncurses, in |
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2397 version 1.9.9e approximately. This version is unable to provide a |
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2398 definition of tparm without also defining tparam. This is also |
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2399 incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support |
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2400 does not work with this version of ncurses. |
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2402 The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2. |
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2404 ** Dumping |
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2406 *** Linux: Segfault during `make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel. |
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2408 With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Redhat Fedora Core |
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2409 1 and newer), the new "Exec-shield" functionality is enabled by default, which |
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2410 creates a different memory layout that breaks the emacs dumper. Emacs tries |
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2411 to handle this at build time, but if the workaround used fails, these |
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2412 instructions can be useful. |
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2413 The work-around explained here is not enough on Fedora Core 4 (and possible |
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2414 newer). Read the next item. |
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2416 Configure can overcome the problem of exec-shield if the architecture is |
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2417 x86 and the program setarch is present. On other architectures no |
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2418 workaround is known. |
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2420 You can check the Exec-shield state like this: |
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2422 cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield |
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2424 It returns non-zero when Exec-shield is enabled, 0 otherwise. Please |
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2425 read your system documentation for more details on Exec-shield and |
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2426 associated commands. Exec-shield can be turned off with this command: |
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2428 echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield |
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2430 When Exec-shield is enabled, building Emacs will segfault during the |
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2431 execution of this command: |
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2433 ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] |
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2435 To work around this problem, it is necessary to temporarily disable |
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2436 Exec-shield while building Emacs, or, on x86, by using the `setarch' |
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2437 command when running temacs like this: |
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2439 setarch i386 ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] |
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2442 *** Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping. |
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2444 In addition to exec-shield explained above "Linux: Segfault during |
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2445 `make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel" |
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2446 item, Linux kernel shipped with Fedora Core 4 randomizes the virtual |
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2447 address space of a process. As the result dumping may fail even if |
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2448 you turn off exec-shield. In this case, use the -R option to the setarch |
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2449 command: |
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2451 setarch i386 -R ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] |
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2453 or |
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2455 setarch i386 -R make bootstrap |
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2457 *** Fatal signal in the command temacs -l loadup inc dump. |
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2459 This command is the final stage of building Emacs. It is run by the |
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2460 Makefile in the src subdirectory, or by build.com on VMS. |
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2462 It has been known to get fatal errors due to insufficient swapping |
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2463 space available on the machine. |
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2465 On 68000s, it has also happened because of bugs in the |
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2466 subroutine `alloca'. Verify that `alloca' works right, even |
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2467 for large blocks (many pages). |
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2469 *** test-distrib says that the distribution has been clobbered. |
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2470 *** or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127". |
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2471 *** or, temacs runs and dumps emacs, but emacs totally fails to work. |
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2472 *** or, temacs gets errors dumping emacs. |
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2474 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be |
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2475 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are |
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2476 binary files and can contain all 256 byte values. |
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2478 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs. |
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2479 It typically truncates "lines". What appear to be "lines" in |
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2480 a binary file can of course be of any length. Even once `shar' |
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2481 itself is made to work correctly, `sh' discards null characters |
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2482 when unpacking the shell archive. |
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2484 I have also seen character \177 changed into \377. I do not know |
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2485 what transfer means caused this problem. Various network |
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2486 file transfer programs are suspected of clobbering the high bit. |
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2488 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its |
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2489 nonprinting characters, you can fix them: |
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2491 1) Record the names of all the .elc files. |
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2492 2) Delete all the .elc files. |
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2493 3) Recompile alloc.c with a value of PURESIZE twice as large. |
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2494 (See puresize.h.) You might as well save the old alloc.o. |
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2495 4) Remake emacs. It should work now. |
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2496 5) Running emacs, do Meta-x byte-compile-file repeatedly |
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2497 to recreate all the .elc files that used to exist. |
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2498 You may need to increase the value of the variable |
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2499 max-lisp-eval-depth to succeed in running the compiler interpreted |
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2500 on certain .el files. 400 was sufficient as of last report. |
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2501 6) Reinstall the old alloc.o (undoing changes to alloc.c if any) |
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2502 and remake temacs. |
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2503 7) Remake emacs. It should work now, with valid .elc files. |
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2505 *** temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted". |
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2507 This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el |
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2508 files during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more |
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2509 space than was allocated. |
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2511 This could be caused by |
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2512 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files |
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2513 2) adding more preloaded files in loadup.el |
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2514 3) having a site-init.el or site-load.el which loads files. |
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2515 Note that ANY site-init.el or site-load.el is nonstandard; |
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2516 if you have received Emacs from some other site |
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2517 and it contains a site-init.el or site-load.el file, consider |
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2518 deleting that file. |
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2519 4) getting the wrong .el or .elc files |
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2520 (not from the directory you expected). |
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2521 5) deleting some .elc files that are supposed to exist. |
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2522 This would cause the source files (.el files) to be |
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2523 loaded instead. They take up more room, so you lose. |
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2524 6) a bug in the Emacs distribution which underestimates |
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2525 the space required. |
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2526 |
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2527 If the need for more space is legitimate, change the definition |
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2528 of PURESIZE in puresize.h. |
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2529 |
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2530 But in some of the cases listed above, this problem is a consequence |
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2531 of something else that is wrong. Be sure to check and fix the real |
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2532 problem. |
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2533 |
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2534 *** Linux: Emacs crashes when dumping itself on Mac PPC running Yellow Dog GNU/Linux. |
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2536 The crashes happen inside the function Fmake_symbol; here's a typical |
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2537 C backtrace printed by GDB: |
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2538 |
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2539 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol () |
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2540 (gdb) where |
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2541 #0 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol () |
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2542 #1 0x1942ca4 in init_obarray () |
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2543 #2 0x18b3500 in main () |
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2544 #3 0x114371c in __libc_start_main (argc=5, argv=0x7ffff5b4, envp=0x7ffff5cc, |
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2546 This could happen because GCC version 2.95 and later changed the base |
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2547 of the load address to 0x10000000. Emacs needs to be told about this, |
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2548 but we currently cannot do that automatically, because that breaks |
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2549 other versions of GNU/Linux on the MacPPC. Until we find a way to |
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2550 distinguish between the Yellow Dog and the other varieties of |
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2551 GNU/Linux systems on the PPC, you will have to manually uncomment the |
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2552 following section near the end of the file src/m/macppc.h in the Emacs |
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2553 distribution: |
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2554 |
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2555 #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux except for Yellowdog, |
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2556 even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we |
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2557 know what's really going on here. */ |
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2558 /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to |
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2559 0x10000000. */ |
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2560 #if defined __linux__ |
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2561 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95) |
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2562 #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000 |
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2563 #endif |
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2564 #endif |
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2565 #endif /* 0 */ |
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2567 Remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives which surround this, save |
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2568 the file, and then reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. The dumping process |
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2569 should now succeed. |
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2570 |
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2571 ** Installation |
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2572 |
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2573 *** Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'. |
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2575 You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package |
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2576 supplies the `install-info' command. |
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2577 |
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2578 ** First execution |
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2579 |
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2580 *** Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run. |
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2581 |
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2582 This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted |
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2583 via NFS, for some combinations of NFS client and NFS server. |
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2584 Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of |
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2585 binary null characters, and the `file' utility says: |
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2586 |
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2587 emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators |
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2588 |
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2589 We don't know what exactly causes this failure. A work-around is to |
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2590 build Emacs in a directory on a local disk. |
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2591 |
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2592 *** The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data. |
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2593 |
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2594 Two causes have been seen for such problems. |
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2595 |
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2596 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined |
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2597 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong, |
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2598 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct |
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2599 value in the man page for a.out (5). |
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2600 |
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2601 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the |
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2602 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most |
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2603 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and |
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2604 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you |
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2605 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file. |
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2606 |
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2607 * Emacs 19 problems |
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2608 |
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2609 ** Error messages `Wrong number of arguments: #<subr where-is-internal>, 5'. |
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2610 |
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2611 This typically results from having the powerkey library loaded. |
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2612 Powerkey was designed for Emacs 19.22. It is obsolete now because |
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2613 Emacs 19 now has this feature built in; and powerkey also calls |
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2614 where-is-internal in an obsolete way. |
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2615 |
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2616 So the fix is to arrange not to load powerkey. |
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2617 |
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2618 * Runtime problems on legacy systems |
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2619 |
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2620 This section covers bugs reported on very old hardware or software. |
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2621 If you are using hardware and an operating system shipped after 2000, |
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2622 it is unlikely you will see any of these. |
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2623 |
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2624 ** Ancient operating systems |
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2625 |
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2626 AIX 4.2 was end-of-lifed on Dec 31st, 1999. |
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2627 |
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2628 *** AIX: You get this compiler error message: |
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2629 |
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2630 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h |
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2631 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found. |
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2632 |
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2633 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d |
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2634 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install |
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2635 X11Dev... with smit. |
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2636 |
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2637 (This report must be ancient. Bootable tapes are long dead.) |
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2638 |
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2639 *** AIX 3.2.4: Releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down. |
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2640 |
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2641 Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is |
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2642 ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can |
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2643 lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are |
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2644 treated as control characters. |
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2645 |
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2646 You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and |
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2647 releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys. |
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2648 |
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2649 *** AIX 3.2.5: You get this message when running Emacs: |
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2650 |
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2651 Could not load program emacs |
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2652 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined |
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2653 Error was: Exec format error |
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2654 |
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2655 or this one: |
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2656 |
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2657 Could not load program .emacs |
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2658 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined |
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2659 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined |
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2660 Error was: Exec format error |
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2661 |
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2662 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was |
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2663 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile. |
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2664 |
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2665 *** AIX 4.2: Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup. |
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2666 |
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2667 If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c |
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2668 without optimization; that should avoid the problem. |
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2669 |
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2670 *** ISC Unix |
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2671 |
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2672 **** ISC: display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems. |
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2673 |
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2674 Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other |
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2675 versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT |
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2676 cells. Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted. |
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2677 This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other |
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2678 processes die, in particular pcnfsd. |
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2679 |
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2680 Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have |
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2681 the same problem. Display-time seems to be far the worst. |
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2682 |
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2683 The only known fix: Don't run display-time. |
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2684 |
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2685 *** SunOS |
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2686 |
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2687 SunOS 4.1.4 stopped shipping on Sep 30 1998. |
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2688 |
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2689 **** SunOS: You get linker errors |
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2690 ld: Undefined symbol |
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2691 _get_wmShellWidgetClass |
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2692 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass |
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2694 **** Sun 4.0.x: M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1". |
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2696 This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos |
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2697 version 4.0.x. The only fix was to reboot the machine. |
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2699 **** SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3: Mail is lost when sent to local aliases. |
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2701 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the |
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2702 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be |
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2703 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually) |
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2704 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which |
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2705 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the |
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2706 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to |
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2707 obtain the destination address. |
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2709 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail. |
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2710 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize |
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2711 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris |
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2712 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS |
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2713 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which |
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2714 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time |
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2715 of this writing, these official versions are available: |
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2717 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail: |
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2718 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation) |
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2719 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files) |
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2720 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs) |
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2721 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript) |
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2723 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub: |
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2724 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz |
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2726 **** Sunos 4: You get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version. |
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2728 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant |
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2729 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete |
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2730 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory. |
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2732 **** SunOS 4.1.3: Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft. |
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2734 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4' |
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2735 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise |
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2736 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which |
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2737 it can do perfectly well for SunOS). |
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2739 **** Sunos 4.1.3: Emacs gets hung shortly after startup. |
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2741 We think this is due to a bug in Sunos. The word is that |
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2742 one of these Sunos patches fixes the bug: |
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2744 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03 101080-01 |
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2745 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10 101134-01 |
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2746 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02 101070-01 101145-01 |
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2747 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02 |
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2748 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01 |
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2750 We don't know which of these patches really matter. If you find out |
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2751 which ones, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
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2753 **** SunOS 4: Emacs processes keep going after you kill the X server |
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2754 (or log out, if you logged in using X). |
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2756 Someone reported that recompiling with GCC 2.7.0 fixed this problem. |
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2758 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0 |
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2759 or link libXmu statically. |
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2761 **** Sunos 5.3: Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies. |
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2762 |
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2763 A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs |
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2764 exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only |
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2765 applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses |
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2766 communicating through pipes. |
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2768 *** Apollo Domain |
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2770 **** Shell mode ignores interrupts on Apollo Domain. |
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2772 You may find that M-x shell prints the following message: |
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2774 Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell... |
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2776 This can happen if there are not enough ptys on your system. |
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2777 Here is how to make more of them. |
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2779 % cd /dev |
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2780 % ls pty* |
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2781 # shows how many pty's you have. I had 8, named pty0 to pty7) |
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2782 % /etc/crpty 8 |
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2783 # creates eight new pty's |
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2785 *** Irix |
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2787 *** Irix 6.2: No visible display on mips-sgi-irix6.2 when compiling with GCC 2.8.1. |
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2789 This problem went away after installing the latest IRIX patches |
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2790 as of 8 Dec 1998. |
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2792 The same problem has been reported on Irix 6.3. |
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2794 *** Irix 6.3: substituting environment variables in file names |
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2795 in the minibuffer gives peculiar error messages such as |
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2797 Substituting nonexistent environment variable "" |
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2799 This is not an Emacs bug; it is caused by something in SGI patch |
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2800 003082 August 11, 1998. |
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2802 *** OPENSTEP |
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2804 **** OPENSTEP 4.2: Compiling syntax.c with gcc 2.7.2.1 fails. |
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2806 The compiler was reported to crash while compiling syntax.c with the |
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2807 following message: |
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2809 cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11 |
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2811 To work around this, replace the macros UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD, |
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2812 INC_BOTH, and INC_FROM with functions. To this end, first define 3 |
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2813 functions, one each for every macro. Here's an example: |
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2815 static int update_syntax_table_forward(int from) |
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2817 return(UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD(from)); |
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2818 }/*update_syntax_table_forward*/ |
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2820 Then replace all references to UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD in syntax.c |
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2821 with a call to the function update_syntax_table_forward. |
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2823 *** Solaris 2.x |
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2825 **** Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun. |
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2827 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of |
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2828 editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such |
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2829 as GCC. |
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2831 **** On Solaris, Emacs dumps core if lisp-complete-symbol is called. |
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2833 If you compile Emacs with the -fast or -xO4 option with version 3.0.2 |
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2834 of the Sun C compiler, Emacs dumps core when lisp-complete-symbol is |
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2835 called. The problem does not happen if you compile with GCC. |
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2837 **** On Solaris, Emacs crashes if you use (display-time). |
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2839 This can happen if you configure Emacs without specifying the precise |
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2840 version of Solaris that you are using. |
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2842 **** Solaris 2.3 and 2.4: Unpredictable segmentation faults. |
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2844 A user reported that this happened in 19.29 when it was compiled with |
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2845 the Sun compiler, but not when he recompiled with GCC 2.7.0. |
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2847 We do not know whether something in Emacs is partly to blame for this. |
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2849 **** Solaris 2.4: Emacs dumps core on startup. |
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2851 Bill Sebok says that the cause of this is Solaris 2.4 vendor patch |
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2852 102303-05, which extends the Solaris linker to deal with the Solaris |
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2853 Common Desktop Environment's linking needs. You can fix the problem |
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2854 by removing this patch and installing patch 102049-02 instead. |
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2855 However, that linker version won't work with CDE. |
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2857 Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug. It is reported that if |
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2858 you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed. |
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2859 We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know |
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2860 for certain. |
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2862 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes) |
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2863 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes) |
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2864 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes) |
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2866 (One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together |
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2867 with patches 102980-04, 103279-01, 103300-02, and 103468-01.) |
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2869 If you can determine which patch does fix the bug, please tell |
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2870 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
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2872 Meanwhile, the GNU linker links Emacs properly on both Solaris 2.4 and |
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2873 Solaris 2.5. |
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2875 **** Solaris 2.4: Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs |
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2876 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie. |
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2878 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so |
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2879 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines |
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2881 #if ThreadedX |
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2882 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread |
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2883 #endif |
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2887 #if OSMinorVersion < 4 |
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2888 #if ThreadedX |
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2889 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread |
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2890 #endif |
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2891 #endif |
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2893 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4 |
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2894 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for |
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2895 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under |
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2896 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the |
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2897 definition for your type of machine and system. |
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2899 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild |
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2900 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on |
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2901 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3. |
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2903 For multithreaded X to work it is necessary to install patch |
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2904 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need |
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2905 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that |
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2906 patch. |
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2908 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution: |
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2909 he changed |
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2910 #define ThreadedX YES |
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2911 to |
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2912 #define ThreadedX NO |
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2913 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all |
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2914 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and |
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2915 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work. |
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2917 **** Solaris 2.x: GCC complains "64 bit integer types not supported". |
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2919 This suggests that GCC is not installed correctly. Most likely you |
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2920 are using GCC 2.7.2.3 (or earlier) on Solaris 2.6 (or later); this |
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2921 does not work without patching. To run GCC 2.7.2.3 on Solaris 2.6 or |
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2922 later, you must patch fixinc.svr4 and reinstall GCC from scratch as |
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2923 described in the Solaris FAQ |
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2924 <http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html>. A better fix is |
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2925 to upgrade to GCC 2.8.1 or later. |
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2927 **** Solaris 2.7: Building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 |
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2928 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to |
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2929 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C |
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2930 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on |
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2931 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler |
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2932 and the default CFLAGS. |
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2934 **** Solaris 2.x: Emacs dumps core when built with Motif. |
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2936 The Solaris Motif libraries are buggy, at least up through Solaris 2.5.1. |
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2937 Install the current Motif runtime library patch appropriate for your host. |
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2938 (Make sure the patch is current; some older patch versions still have the bug.) |
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2939 You should install the other patches recommended by Sun for your host, too. |
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2940 You can obtain Sun patches from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/; |
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2941 look for files with names ending in `.PatchReport' to see which patches |
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2942 are currently recommended for your host. |
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2944 On Solaris 2.6, Emacs is said to work with Motif when Solaris patch |
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2945 105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed. |
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2946 105284-18 might fix it again. |
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2948 **** Solaris 2.6 and 7: the Compose key does not work. |
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2950 This is a bug in Motif in Solaris. Supposedly it has been fixed for |
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2951 the next major release of Solaris. However, if someone with Sun |
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2952 support complains to Sun about the bug, they may release a patch. |
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2953 If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711. |
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2955 One workaround is to use a locale that allows non-ASCII characters. |
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2956 For example, before invoking emacs, set the LC_ALL environment |
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2957 variable to "en_US" (American English). The directory /usr/lib/locale |
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2958 lists the supported locales; any locale other than "C" or "POSIX" |
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2959 should do. |
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2961 pen@lysator.liu.se says (Feb 1998) that the Compose key does work |
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2962 if you link with the MIT X11 libraries instead of the Solaris X11 |
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2963 libraries. |
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2965 *** HP/UX versions before 11.0 |
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2967 HP/UX 9 was end-of-lifed in December 1998. |
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2968 HP/UX 10 was end-of-lifed in May 1999. |
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2970 **** HP/UX 9: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV after you delete a frame. |
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2972 We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With |
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2973 the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem |
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2974 does not happen. |
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2975 |
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2976 *** HP/UX 10: Large file support is disabled. |
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2977 |
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2978 See the comments in src/s/hpux10.h. |
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2979 |
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2980 *** HP/UX: Emacs is slow using X11R5. |
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2982 This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it |
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2983 doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version |
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2984 because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a, |
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2985 libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with |
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2986 those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to |
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2987 install them and rebuild Emacs. |
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2989 *** Ultrix and Digital Unix |
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2991 **** Ultrix 4.2: `make install' fails on install-doc with `Error 141'. |
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2993 This happens on Ultrix 4.2 due to failure of a pipeline of tar |
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2994 commands. We don't know why they fail, but the bug seems not to be in |
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2995 Emacs. The workaround is to run the shell command in install-doc by |
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2996 hand. |
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2998 **** Digital Unix 4.0: Garbled display on non-X terminals when Emacs runs. |
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2999 |
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3000 So far it appears that running `tset' triggers this problem (when TERM |
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3001 is vt100, at least). If you do not run `tset', then Emacs displays |
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3002 properly. If someone can tell us precisely which effect of running |
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3003 `tset' actually causes the problem, we may be able to implement a fix |
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3004 in Emacs. |
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3005 |
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3006 **** Ultrix: `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped Emacs on. |
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3008 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information |
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3009 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using |
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3010 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work |
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3011 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on. |
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3013 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in |
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3014 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution. |
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3016 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is |
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3017 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know. |
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3018 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included |
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3019 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host. |
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3021 *** SVr4 |
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3022 |
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3023 **** SVr4: On some variants of SVR4, Emacs does not work at all with X. |
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3025 Try defining BROKEN_FIONREAD in your config.h file. If this solves |
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3026 the problem, please send a bug report to tell us this is needed; be |
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3027 sure to say exactly what type of machine and system you are using. |
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3029 **** SVr4: After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash. |
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3031 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the |
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3032 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly |
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3033 the first time, and then crash when run a second time. |
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3034 |
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3035 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time, |
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3036 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your |
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3037 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the |
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3038 configure script) that reads: |
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3039 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC |
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3040 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around |
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3041 the kernel bug. |
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3042 |
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3043 *** Irix 5 and earlier |
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3045 Exactly when Irix-5 end-of-lifed is obscure. But since Irix 6.0 |
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3046 shipped in 1994, it has been some years. |
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3047 |
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3048 **** Irix 5.2: unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h. |
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3049 |
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3050 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the |
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3051 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset |
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3052 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy |
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3053 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of |
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3054 syms.h. |
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3055 |
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3056 **** Irix 5.3: "out of virtual swap space". |
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3057 |
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3058 This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too |
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3059 many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more |
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3060 swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You |
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3061 can check the current status of the swap space by executing the |
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3062 command `swap -l'. |
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3063 |
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3064 You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a |
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3065 line like this: |
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3066 |
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3067 /usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0 |
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3068 |
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3069 where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance |
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3070 by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of |
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3071 that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the |
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3072 new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further |
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3073 information. |
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3074 |
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3075 The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be |
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3076 swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users |
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3077 on the network that can log on to the host. |
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3078 |
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3079 If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute |
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3080 the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable |
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3081 some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM |
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3082 icons. |
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3083 |
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3084 You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin' |
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3085 FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35 |
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3086 ("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at |
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3087 ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/. |
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3088 |
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3089 **** Irix 5.3: Emacs crashes in utmpname. |
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3090 |
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3091 This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3. |
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3092 It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up. |
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3093 |
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3094 **** Irix 6.0: Make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi. |
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3095 |
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3096 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o" |
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3097 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run, |
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3098 find that string, and take out the spaces. |
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3099 |
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3100 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem. |
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3101 |
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3102 *** SCO Unix and UnixWare |
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3103 |
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3104 **** SCO 3.2v4: Unusable default font. |
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3105 |
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3106 The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings |
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3107 that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such |
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3108 fonts, so it does not work. |
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3109 |
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3110 This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is |
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3111 the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal |
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3112 emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources |
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3113 that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these |
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3114 resources affect Emacs also: |
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3115 |
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3116 *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-* |
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3117 *Background: scoBackground |
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3118 *Foreground: scoForeground |
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3119 |
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3120 The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for |
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3121 Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents: |
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3122 |
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3123 Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 |
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3124 Emacs*Background: white |
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3125 Emacs*Foreground: black |
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3126 |
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3127 (These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to |
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3128 suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server |
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3129 starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop |
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3130 environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell |
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3131 as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the |
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3132 /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs, |
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3133 but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the |
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3134 Open Desktop display. |
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3135 |
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3136 These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO |
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3137 machines; you must create the file on each machine individually. |
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3138 |
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3139 **** SCO 4.2.0: Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems. |
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3140 |
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3141 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled |
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3142 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C |
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3143 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick |
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3144 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with |
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3145 GCC. |
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3146 |
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3147 **** UnixWare 2.1: Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs. |
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3148 |
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3149 Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed |
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3150 virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during |
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3151 the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That |
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3152 error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been |
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3153 exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual |
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3154 memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs. |
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3155 |
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3156 You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh). |
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3157 But you have to be root to do it. |
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3158 |
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3159 According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel: |
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3160 |
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3161 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit |
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3162 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard " |
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3163 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit |
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3164 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard " |
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3165 # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B |
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3166 |
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3167 (He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.) |
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3168 These changes take effect when you reboot. |
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3169 |
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3170 *** Linux 1.x |
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3171 |
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3172 **** Linux 1.0-1.04: Typing C-c C-c in Shell mode kills your X server. |
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3173 |
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3174 This happens with Linux kernel 1.0 thru 1.04, approximately. The workaround is |
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3175 to define SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS in config.h and recompile Emacs. |
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3176 Newer Linux kernel versions don't have this problem. |
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3177 |
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3178 **** Linux 1.3: Output from subprocess (such as man or diff) is randomly |
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3179 truncated on GNU/Linux systems. |
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3180 |
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3181 This is due to a kernel bug which seems to be fixed in Linux version |
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3182 1.3.75. |
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3183 |
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3184 ** Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and ME |
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3185 |
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3186 *** MS-Windows NT/95: Problems running Perl under Emacs |
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3187 |
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3188 `perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell. |
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3189 The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95). |
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3190 |
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3191 The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to |
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3192 "CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting |
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3193 with the user. |
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3194 |
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3195 On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a |
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3196 pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to |
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3197 communicate with the subprocess. |
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3198 |
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3199 On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the |
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3200 relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be |
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3201 redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as |
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3202 stdin. |
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3203 |
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3204 A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON. |
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3205 |
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3206 For Perl 4: |
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3207 |
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3208 *** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993 |
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3209 --- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996 |
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3210 *************** |
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3211 *** 68,74 **** |
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3212 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3213 } |
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3214 else { |
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3215 ! $console = "con"; |
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3216 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3217 } |
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3218 |
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3219 --- 68,74 ---- |
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3220 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3221 } |
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3222 else { |
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3223 ! $console = ""; |
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3224 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3225 } |
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3226 |
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3227 |
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3228 For Perl 5: |
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3229 *** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995 |
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3230 --- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996 |
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3231 *************** |
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3232 *** 22,28 **** |
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3233 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3234 } |
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3235 elsif (-e "con") { |
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3236 ! $console = "con"; |
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3237 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3238 } |
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3239 else { |
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3240 --- 22,28 ---- |
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3241 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3242 } |
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3243 elsif (-e "con") { |
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3244 ! $console = ""; |
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3245 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3246 } |
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3247 else { |
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3248 |
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3249 *** MS-Windows 95: Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs. |
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3250 |
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3251 This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95. |
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3252 You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6. |
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3253 |
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3254 *** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: subprocesses do not terminate properly. |
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3255 |
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3256 This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems |
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3257 when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited |
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3258 cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at |
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3259 http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/. |
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3260 |
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3261 *** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: crashes when Emacs invokes non-existent programs. |
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3262 |
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3263 When a program you are trying to run is not found on the PATH, |
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3264 Windows might respond by crashing or locking up your system. In |
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3265 particular, this has been reported when trying to compile a Java |
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3266 program in JDEE when javac.exe is installed, but not on the system |
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3267 PATH. |
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3269 ** MS-DOS |
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3270 |
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3271 *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT, "config msdos" fails. |
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3273 If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because |
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3274 Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a |
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3275 program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by |
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3276 config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to |
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3277 the front of your PATH environment variable. |
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3278 |
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3279 *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows 95, Make fails for some targets |
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3280 like make-docfile. |
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3282 This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment |
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3283 variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during |
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3284 compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for |
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3285 the explanation of how to avoid this problem. |
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3287 *** Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup: |
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3288 |
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3289 "Wrong type of argument: internal-facep, msdos-menu-active-face" |
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3291 This can happen if you define an environment variable `TERM'. Emacs |
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3292 on MSDOS uses an internal terminal emulator which is disabled if the |
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3293 value of `TERM' is anything but the string "internal". Emacs then |
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3294 works as if its terminal were a dumb glass teletype that doesn't |
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3295 support faces. To work around this, arrange for `TERM' to be |
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3296 undefined when Emacs runs. The best way to do that is to add an |
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3297 [emacs] section to the DJGPP.ENV file which defines an empty value for |
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3298 `TERM'; this way, only Emacs gets the empty value, while the rest of |
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3299 your system works as before. |
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3300 |
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3301 *** MS-DOS: Emacs crashes at startup. |
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3302 |
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3303 Some users report that Emacs 19.29 requires dpmi memory management, |
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3304 and crashes on startup if the system does not have it. We don't yet |
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3305 know why this happens--perhaps these machines don't have enough real |
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3306 memory, or perhaps something is wrong in Emacs or the compiler. |
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3307 However, arranging to use dpmi support is a workaround. |
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3308 |
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3309 You can find out if you have a dpmi host by running go32 without |
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3310 arguments; it will tell you if it uses dpmi memory. For more |
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3311 information about dpmi memory, consult the djgpp FAQ. (djgpp |
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3312 is the GNU C compiler as packaged for MSDOS.) |
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3314 Compiling Emacs under MSDOS is extremely sensitive for proper memory |
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3315 configuration. If you experience problems during compilation, consider |
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3316 removing some or all memory resident programs (notably disk caches) |
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3317 and make sure that your memory managers are properly configured. See |
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3318 the djgpp faq for configuration hints. |
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3320 *** Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files |
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3321 in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any |
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3322 drive, e.g. `c:/dev'. |
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3323 |
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3324 This is an unfortunate side-effect of the support for Unix-style |
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3325 device names such as /dev/null in the DJGPP runtime library. A |
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3326 work-around is to rename the problem directory to another name. |
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3327 |
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3328 *** MS-DOS+DJGPP: Problems on MS-DOG if DJGPP v2.0 is used to compile Emacs. |
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3329 |
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3330 There are two DJGPP library bugs which cause problems: |
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3331 |
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3332 * Running `shell-command' (or `compile', or `grep') you get |
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3333 `Searching for program: permission denied (EACCES), c:/command.com'; |
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3334 * After you shell to DOS, Ctrl-Break kills Emacs. |
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3336 To work around these bugs, you can use two files in the msdos |
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3337 subdirectory: `is_exec.c' and `sigaction.c'. Compile them and link |
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3338 them into the Emacs executable `temacs'; then they will replace the |
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3339 incorrect library functions. |
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3341 *** MS-DOS: Emacs compiled for MSDOS cannot find some Lisp files, or other |
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3342 run-time support files, when long filename support is enabled. |
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3344 Usually, this problem will manifest itself when Emacs exits |
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3345 immediately after flashing the startup screen, because it cannot find |
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3346 the Lisp files it needs to load at startup. Redirect Emacs stdout |
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3347 and stderr to a file to see the error message printed by Emacs. |
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3349 Another manifestation of this problem is that Emacs is unable to load |
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3350 the support for editing program sources in languages such as C and |
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3351 Lisp. |
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3353 This can happen if the Emacs distribution was unzipped without LFN |
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3354 support, thus causing long filenames to be truncated to the first 6 |
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3355 characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it. |
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3356 You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long |
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3357 filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program |
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3358 compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL |
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3359 explains this issue in more detail. |
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3361 Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for |
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3362 MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported |
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3363 by this version of Emacs, but the distribution was unpacked by an |
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3364 unzip program that preserved the long file names instead of truncating |
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3365 them to DOS 8+3 limits. To be useful on NT, the MSDOS port of Emacs |
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3366 must be unzipped by a DOS utility, so that long file names are |
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3367 properly truncated. |
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3368 |
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3369 ** Archaic window managers and toolkits |
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3371 *** OpenLook: Under OpenLook, the Emacs window disappears when you type M-q. |
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3373 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit |
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3374 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use |
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3375 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window |
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3376 manager to use some other command. You can disable the |
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3377 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults: |
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3379 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False |
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3381 **** twm: A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm. |
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3383 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions. |
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3384 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file: |
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3386 UsePPosition "on" #allow clients to request a position |
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3388 ** Bugs related to old DEC hardware |
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3390 *** The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key. |
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3392 This shell command should fix it: |
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3394 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L' |
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3395 |
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3396 *** Keyboard input gets confused after a beep when using a DECserver |
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3397 as a concentrator. |
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3399 This problem seems to be a matter of configuring the DECserver to use |
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3400 7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters. |
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3402 * Build problems on legacy systems |
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3403 |
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3404 ** BSD/386 1.0: --with-x-toolkit option configures wrong. |
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3405 |
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3406 This problem is due to bugs in the shell in version 1.0 of BSD/386. |
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3407 The workaround is to edit the configure file to use some other shell, |
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3408 such as bash. |
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3409 |
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3410 ** Digital Unix 4.0: Emacs fails to build, giving error message |
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3411 Invalid dimension for the charset-ID 160 |
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3413 This is due to a bug or an installation problem in GCC 2.8.0. |
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3414 Installing a more recent version of GCC fixes the problem. |
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3416 ** Digital Unix 4.0: Failure in unexec while dumping emacs. |
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3418 This problem manifests itself as an error message |
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3420 unexec: Bad address, writing data section to ... |
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3422 The user suspects that this happened because his X libraries |
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3423 were built for an older system version, |
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3425 ./configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib |
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3427 made the problem go away. |
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3429 ** Sunos 4.1.1: there are errors compiling sysdep.c. |
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3431 If you get errors such as |
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3433 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union |
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3434 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union |
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3435 "sysdep.c", line 2019: nodename undefined |
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3437 This can result from defining LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It is very tricky |
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3438 to use that environment variable with Emacs. The Emacs configure |
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3439 script links many test programs with the system libraries; you must |
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3440 make sure that the libraries available to configure are the same |
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3441 ones available when you build Emacs. |
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3443 ** SunOS 4.1.1: You get this error message from GNU ld: |
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3445 /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment |
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3447 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld. |
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3449 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun. |
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3451 ** Sunos 4.1: Undefined symbols when linking using --with-x-toolkit. |
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3453 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace, |
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3454 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after |
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3455 -lXaw in the command that links temacs. |
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3457 This problem seems to arise only when the international language |
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3458 extensions to X11R5 are installed. |
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3460 ** SunOS: Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun. |
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3462 If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or |
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3463 `ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates |
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3464 that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries, |
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3465 with a floating point option other than the default. |
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3467 It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in |
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3468 crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o. |
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3469 However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default |
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3470 floating point option: -fsoft. |
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3472 ** SunOS: Undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym and/or _dlclose. |
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3474 If you see undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym, or _dlclose when linking |
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3475 with -lX11, compile and link against the file mit/util/misc/dlsym.c in |
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3476 the MIT X11R5 distribution. Alternatively, link temacs using shared |
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3477 libraries with s/sunos4shr.h. (This doesn't work if you use the X |
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3478 toolkit.) |
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3480 If you get the additional error that the linker could not find |
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3481 lib_version.o, try extracting it from X11/usr/lib/X11/libvim.a in |
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3482 X11R4, then use it in the link. |
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3484 ** SunOS4, DGUX 5.4.2: --with-x-toolkit version crashes when used with shared libraries. |
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3485 |
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3486 On some systems, including Sunos 4 and DGUX 5.4.2 and perhaps others, |
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3487 unexec doesn't work properly with the shared library for the X |
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3488 toolkit. You might be able to work around this by using a nonshared |
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3489 libXt.a library. The real fix is to upgrade the various versions of |
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3490 unexec and/or ralloc. We think this has been fixed on Sunos 4 |
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3491 and Solaris in version 19.29. |
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3492 |
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3493 ** HPUX 10.20: Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine. |
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3494 |
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3495 This seems to be due to a GCC bug; it is fixed in GCC 2.8.1. |
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3497 ** VMS: Compilation errors on VMS. |
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3499 You will get warnings when compiling on VMS because there are |
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3500 variable names longer than 32 (or whatever it is) characters. |
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3501 This is not an error. Ignore it. |
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3503 VAX C does not support #if defined(foo). Uses of this construct |
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3504 were removed, but some may have crept back in. They must be rewritten. |
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3506 There is a bug in the C compiler which fails to sign extend characters |
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3507 in conditional expressions. The bug is: |
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3508 char c = -1, d = 1; |
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3509 int i; |
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3511 i = d ? c : d; |
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3512 The result is i == 255; the fix is to typecast the char in the |
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3513 conditional expression as an (int). Known occurrences of such |
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3514 constructs in Emacs have been fixed. |
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3516 ** Vax C compiler bugs affecting Emacs. |
25853 | 3517 |
3518 You may get one of these problems compiling Emacs: | |
3519 | |
3520 foo.c line nnn: compiler error: no table entry for op STASG | |
3521 foo.c: fatal error in /lib/ccom | |
3522 | |
3523 These are due to bugs in the C compiler; the code is valid C. | |
3524 Unfortunately, the bugs are unpredictable: the same construct | |
3525 may compile properly or trigger one of these bugs, depending | |
3526 on what else is in the source file being compiled. Even changes | |
3527 in header files that should not affect the file being compiled | |
3528 can affect whether the bug happens. In addition, sometimes files | |
3529 that compile correctly on one machine get this bug on another machine. | |
3530 | |
3531 As a result, it is hard for me to make sure this bug will not affect | |
3532 you. I have attempted to find and alter these constructs, but more | |
3533 can always appear. However, I can tell you how to deal with it if it | |
3534 should happen. The bug comes from having an indexed reference to an | |
3535 array of Lisp_Objects, as an argument in a function call: | |
3536 Lisp_Object *args; | |
3537 ... | |
3538 ... foo (5, args[i], ...)... | |
3539 putting the argument into a temporary variable first, as in | |
3540 Lisp_Object *args; | |
3541 Lisp_Object tem; | |
3542 ... | |
3543 tem = args[i]; | |
3544 ... foo (r, tem, ...)... | |
3545 causes the problem to go away. | |
3546 The `contents' field of a Lisp vector is an array of Lisp_Objects, | |
3547 so you may see the problem happening with indexed references to that. | |
3548 | |
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3549 ** 68000 C compiler problems |
25853 | 3550 |
3551 Various 68000 compilers have different problems. | |
3552 These are some that have been observed. | |
3553 | |
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3554 *** Using value of assignment expression on union type loses. |
25853 | 3555 This means that x = y = z; or foo (x = z); does not work |
3556 if x is of type Lisp_Object. | |
3557 | |
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3558 *** "cannot reclaim" error. |
25853 | 3559 |
3560 This means that an expression is too complicated. You get the correct | |
3561 line number in the error message. The code must be rewritten with | |
3562 simpler expressions. | |
3563 | |
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3564 *** XCONS, XSTRING, etc macros produce incorrect code. |
25853 | 3565 |
3566 If temacs fails to run at all, this may be the cause. | |
3567 Compile this test program and look at the assembler code: | |
3568 | |
3569 struct foo { char x; unsigned int y : 24; }; | |
3570 | |
3571 lose (arg) | |
3572 struct foo arg; | |
3573 { | |
3574 test ((int *) arg.y); | |
3575 } | |
3576 | |
3577 If the code is incorrect, your compiler has this problem. | |
3578 In the XCONS, etc., macros in lisp.h you must replace (a).u.val with | |
3579 ((a).u.val + coercedummy) where coercedummy is declared as int. | |
3580 | |
3581 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type | |
3582 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE. That is the recommended setting now. | |
3583 | |
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3584 *** C compilers lose on returning unions. |
25853 | 3585 |
3586 I hear that some C compilers cannot handle returning a union type. | |
3587 Most of the functions in GNU Emacs return type Lisp_Object, which is | |
3588 defined as a union on some rare architectures. | |
3589 | |
3590 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type | |
3591 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE. | |
3592 | |
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3594 Copyright 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, |
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3595 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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3597 Copying and redistribution of this file with or without modification |
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3598 are permitted without royalty provided this notice is preserved. |
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41836 | 3600 Local variables: |
3601 mode: outline | |
3602 paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" | |
3603 end: | |
52401 | 3604 |
3605 arch-tag: 49fc0d95-88cb-4715-b21c-f27fb5a4764a |