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(display-buffer-other-frame): New command. (ctl-x-4-map): Bind C-x 5 C-o to it.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:05:19 +0000
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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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8
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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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16
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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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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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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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96 present in load-path:
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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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102 load-path.
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103
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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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107
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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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110 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
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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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114
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115 Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by FUJITSU LIMITED
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116 @@ -166,8 +166,8 @@
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117 _XimMakeImName(lcd)
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118 XLCd lcd;
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119 {
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120 - char* begin;
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121 - char* end;
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122 + char* begin = NULL;
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123 + char* end = NULL;
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124 char* ret;
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125 int i = 0;
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126 char* ximmodifier = XIMMODIFIER;
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127 @@ -182,7 +182,11 @@
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128 }
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129 ret = Xmalloc(end - begin + 2);
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130 if (ret != NULL) {
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131 - (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
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132 + if (begin != NULL) {
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133 + (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
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134 + } else {
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135 + ret[0] = '\0';
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136 + }
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137 ret[end - begin + 1] = '\0';
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138 }
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139 return ret;
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140
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141 * Crash bugs
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142
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143 ** Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog.
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145 This can happen if the dialog widget cannot find the font it wants to
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146 use. You can work around the problem by specifying another font with
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147 an X resource--for example, `Emacs.dialog*.font: 9x15' (or any font that
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150 ** Emacs crashes when you use Bibtex mode.
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152 This happens if your system puts a small limit on stack size. You can
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153 prevent the problem by using a suitable shell command (often `ulimit')
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154 to raise the stack size limit before you run Emacs.
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156 Patches to raise the stack size limit automatically in `main'
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157 (src/emacs.c) on various systems would be greatly appreciated.
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158
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159 ** Error message `Symbol's value as variable is void: x', followed by
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160 a segmentation fault and core dump.
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162 This has been tracked to a bug in tar! People report that tar erroneously
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163 added a line like this at the beginning of files of Lisp code:
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165 x FILENAME, N bytes, B tape blocks
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166
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167 If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to
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168 untar it :-).
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169
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170 ** Crashes when displaying GIF images in Emacs built with version
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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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173 if a binary built against a shared libungif is run on a system with an
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174 older version.
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176 ** Emacs aborts inside the function `tparam1'.
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178 This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the
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179 terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo.
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180 If your system has ncurses installed, this might happen if your
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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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183
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184 All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the
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185 problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses
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186 terminfo when built.
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187
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188 ** Emacs crashes when using the Exceed 6.0 X server.
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190 If you are using Exceed 6.1, upgrade to a later version. This was
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191 reported to prevent the crashes.
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192
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193 ** Emacs crashes with SIGSEGV in XtInitializeWidgetClass.
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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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201
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202 On platforms such as Solaris, you can also work around this problem by
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203 configuring your compiler to use the native linker instead of GNU ld.
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204
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205 * General runtime problems
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207 ** Lisp problems
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208
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209 *** Changes made to .el files do not take effect.
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211 You may have forgotten to recompile them into .elc files.
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212 Then the old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes
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213 will not be seen. To fix this, do M-x byte-recompile-directory
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214 and specify the directory that contains the Lisp files.
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216 Emacs should print a warning when loading a .elc file which is older
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217 than the corresponding .el file.
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219 *** Watch out for .emacs files and EMACSLOADPATH environment vars.
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221 These control the actions of Emacs.
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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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226 If you observe strange problems, check for these and get rid
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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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233 "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth"
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235 This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a
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236 built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch
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237 for epop3 that fixes this, but perhaps a newer version of epop3
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238 corrects that.
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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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250
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251 ** Keyboard problems
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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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256 will get strange results. In previous Emacs versions, this "worked"
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257 in that the key acted as Meta--that's because the older Emacs versions
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258 did not try to support Compose Character. Now Emacs tries to do
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259 character composition in the standard X way. This means that you
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260 must pick one meaning or the other for any given key.
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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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278 set escape-character 17
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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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291 old POP protocol.
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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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298
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299 There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses
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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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306
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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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311
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312 chgrp mail movemail
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313 chmod 2755 movemail
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315 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
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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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319 make install.
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320
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321 chgrp mail movemail
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322 chmod 2755 movemail
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324 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an
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325 installation directory which is usually under /usr/local/lib. The
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326 installed copy of movemail is usually in the directory
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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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330
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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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335
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336 ** Problems with hostname resolution
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338 *** Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though
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339 the names work properly with other programs on the same system.
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340 *** Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.
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341 *** Gnus can't make contact with the specified host for nntp.
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343 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared
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344 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the
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345 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a
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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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351 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you
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352 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs.
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354 On SunOS 4.1, simply define HAVE_RES_INIT.
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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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362
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363 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h:
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365 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv
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366
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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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369 again to say this:
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371 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar
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373 *** Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name.
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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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381
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382 ** NFS and RFS
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384 *** Emacs says it has saved a file, but the file does not actually
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385 appear on disk.
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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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390 detect the problem. Emacs checks the failure codes of all the system
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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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400 call in the RFS server.
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402 The first is that the fsync() call is handled as another name for the
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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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406
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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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415 protocol. No fix was supplied for this problem.
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416
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417 (as always, your line numbers may vary)
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418
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419 % rcsdiff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
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420 RCS file: RCS/serversyscall.c,v
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421 retrieving revision 1.2
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422 diff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
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423 *** /tmp/,RCSt1003677 Wed Jan 28 15:15:02 1987
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424 --- serversyscall.c Wed Jan 28 15:14:48 1987
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425 ***************
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426 *** 163,169 ****
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427 /*
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428 * No return sent for close or fsync!
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429 */
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430 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close || syscall == RSYS_fsync)
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431 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]);
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432 else
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433 {
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434 --- 166,172 ----
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435 /*
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436 * No return sent for close or fsync!
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437 */
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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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440 else
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441 {
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442
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443 ** PSGML
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444
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445 *** Old versions of the PSGML package use the obsolete variables
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446 `before-change-function' and `after-change-function', which are no
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447 longer used by Emacs. Please use PSGML 1.2.3 or later.
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448
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449 *** PSGML conflicts with sgml-mode.
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450
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451 PSGML package uses the same names of some variables (like keymap)
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452 as built-in sgml-mode.el because it was created as a replacement
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453 of that package. The conflict will be shown if you load
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454 sgml-mode.el before psgml.el. E.g. this could happen if you edit
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455 HTML page and then start to work with SGML or XML file. html-mode
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456 (from sgml-mode.el) is used for HTML file and loading of psgml.el
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457 (for sgml-mode or xml-mode) will cause an error.
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458
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459 *** Versions of the PSGML package earlier than 1.0.3 (stable) or 1.1.2
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460 (alpha) fail to parse DTD files correctly in Emacs 20.3 and later.
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461 Here is a patch for psgml-parse.el from PSGML 1.0.1 and, probably,
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462 earlier versions.
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463
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464 --- psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:18:18 1.1
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465 +++ psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:20:00
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466 @@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ (defun sgml-push-to-entity (entity &opti
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467 (setq sgml-buffer-parse-state nil))
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468 (cond
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469 ((stringp entity) ; a file name
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470 - (save-excursion (insert-file-contents entity))
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471 + (insert-file-contents entity)
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472 (setq default-directory (file-name-directory entity)))
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473 ((consp (sgml-entity-text entity)) ; external id?
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474 (let* ((extid (sgml-entity-text entity))
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475
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476 ** AUCTeX
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477
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478 You should not be using a version older than 11.52 if you can avoid
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479 it.
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480
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481 *** Emacs 21 freezes when visiting a TeX file with AUCTeX installed.
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482
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483 Emacs 21 needs version 10 or later of AUCTeX; upgrading should solve
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484 these problems.
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485
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486 *** No colors in AUCTeX with Emacs 21.
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487
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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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490
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491 ** PCL-CVS
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492
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493 *** Lines are not updated or new lines are added in the buffer upon commit.
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494
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495 When committing files located higher in the hierarchy than the examined
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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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498 files. As a result, the corresponding lines in the PCL-CVS buffer are
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499 not updated with the new revision of these files, and new lines are
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500 added to the top-level directory.
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501
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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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504
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505 ** Miscellaneous problems
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506
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507 *** Self-documentation messages are garbled.
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508
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509 This means that the file `etc/DOC-...' doesn't properly correspond
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510 with the Emacs executable. Redumping Emacs and then installing the
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511 corresponding pair of files should fix the problem.
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512
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513 *** Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
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514 terminal type.
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515
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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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518 provide the information on the special terminal type that Emacs
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519 emulates.
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520
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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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524
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525 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file
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526
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527 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not
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528 happen in a non-login shell.
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529
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530 *** In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line.
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531
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532 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too
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533 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns
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534 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the
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535 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:
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536
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537 if ($?EMACS) then
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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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541 endif
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542 endif
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543
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544 *** Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is slow.
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545
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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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548 /etc/hosts file, something like this:
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549
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550 127.0.0.1 localhost
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551 129.187.137.82 nuc04.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de nuc04
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552
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553 The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems.
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554
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555 *** Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails.
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556
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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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562 ftp client. On a Debian system, type
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563
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564 update-alternatives --config ftp
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565
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566 and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp.
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567
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568 *** JPEG images aren't displayed.
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569
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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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574
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575 *** Dired is very slow.
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576
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577 This could happen if invocation of the `df' program takes a long
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578 time. Possible reasons for this include:
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579
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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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582
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583 - slow automounters on some old versions of Unix;
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584
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585 - slow operation of some versions of `df'.
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586
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587 To work around the problem, you could either (a) set the variable
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588 `directory-free-space-program' to nil, and thus prevent Emacs from
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589 invoking `df'; (b) use `df' from the GNU Fileutils package; or
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590 (c) use CVS, which is Free Software, instead of ClearCase.
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591
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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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594
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595 *** The LDAP support rely on ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 2.
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596
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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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601
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602 *** ps-print commands fail to find prologue files ps-prin*.ps.
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603
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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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607
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608 The solution is to upgrade X-Symbol to a later version.
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609
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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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615
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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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618
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619 On many systems, it is possible to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your
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620 environment to specify additional directories where shared libraries
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621 can be found.
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622
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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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626
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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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630
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631 (dbx) where
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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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638 ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":997, 0xfb64d44]
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639 4 _rld_text_resolve(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
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640 ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld_bridge.s":175, 0xfb6032c]
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641
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642 (`rld' is the dynamic linker.) We don't know yet why this
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643 happens, but setting the environment variable LD_BIND_NOW to 1 (which
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644 forces the dynamic linker to bind all shared objects early on) seems
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645 to work around the problem.
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646
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647 Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details.
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648
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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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651
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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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655
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656 *** When you run Ispell from Emacs, it reports a "misalignment" error.
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657
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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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662
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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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665
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666 ispell -vv
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667
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668 and look in the output for the string "NO8BIT". If Ispell says
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669 "!NO8BIT (8BIT)", your speller supports 8-bit characters; otherwise it
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670 does not.
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671
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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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674 Then rebuild the speller.
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675
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676 Another possible cause for "misalignment" error messages is that the
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677 version of Ispell installed on your machine is old. Upgrade.
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678
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679 Yet another possibility is that you are trying to spell-check a word
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680 in a language that doesn't fit the dictionary you choose for use by
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681 Ispell. (Ispell can only spell-check one language at a time, because
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682 it uses a single dictionary.) Make sure that the text you are
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683 spelling and the dictionary used by Ispell conform to each other.
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684
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685 If your spell-checking program is Aspell, it has been reported that if
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686 you have a personal configuration file (normally ~/.aspell.conf), it
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687 can cause this error. Remove that file, execute `ispell-kill-ispell'
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688 in Emacs, and then try spell-checking again.
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689
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690 * Runtime problems related to font handling
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691
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692 ** Under X11, some characters appear as hollow boxes.
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693
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694 Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs
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695 supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires
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696 many different fonts, collected into a fontset.
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697
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698 If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X
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699 server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes.
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700 You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts.
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701
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702 The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can
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703 display all the characters Emacs supports.
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704
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705 Another cause of this for specific characters is fonts which have a
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706 missing glyph and no default character. This is known to occur for
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707 character number 160 (no-break space) in some fonts, such as Lucida
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708 but Emacs sets the display table for the unibyte and Latin-1 version
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709 of this character to display a space.
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710
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711 ** Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines.
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712
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713 You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution.
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714
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715 ** Certain fonts make each line take one pixel more than it "should".
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716
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717 This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller
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718 than the font's nominal height. Emacs needs to make sure that
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719 lines do not overlap.
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720
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721 ** Loading fonts is very slow.
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722
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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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726 "fonts.scale".
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727
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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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730
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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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734
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735 ** Font Lock displays portions of the buffer in incorrect faces.
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736
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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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747
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748 Beginning with version 22.1, a parenthesis or a brace in column zero
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749 is highlighted in bold-red face if it is inside a string or a comment,
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750 to indicate that it could interfere with Font Lock (and also with
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751 indentation) and should be moved or escaped with a backslash.
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752
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753 If you don't use large buffers, or have a very fast machine which
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754 makes the delays insignificant, you can avoid the incorrect
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755 fontification by setting the variable
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756 `font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function' to a nil value. (This must
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757 be done _after_ turning on Font Lock.)
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758
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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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761
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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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764
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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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768
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769 ** Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X.
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770
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771 This can occur when two different versions of FontConfig are used.
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772 For example, XFree86 4.3.0 has one version and Gnome usually comes
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773 with a newer version. Emacs compiled with --with-gtk will then use
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774 the newer version. In most cases the problem can be temporarily
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775 fixed by stopping the application that has the error (it can be
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776 Emacs or any other application), removing ~/.fonts.cache-1,
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777 and then start the application again.
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778 If removing ~/.fonts.cache-1 and restarting doesn't help, the
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779 application with problem must be recompiled with the same version
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780 of FontConfig as the rest of the system uses. For KDE, it is
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781 sufficient to recompile Qt.
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782
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783 ** Emacs pauses for several seconds when changing the default font.
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784
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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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789
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790 A workaround for this is to add something like
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791
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792 emacs.waitForWM: false
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793
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794 to your X resources. Alternatively, add `(wait-for-wm . nil)' to a
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795 frame's parameter list, like this:
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796
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797 (modify-frame-parameters nil '((wait-for-wm . nil)))
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798
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799 (this should go into your `.emacs' file).
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800
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801 ** Underlines appear at the wrong position.
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802
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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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807 `.emacs'.
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808
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809 To see what is the value of UNDERLINE_POSITION defined by the font,
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810 type `xlsfonts -lll FONT' and look at the font's UNDERLINE_POSITION
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parents: 56645
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811 property.
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parents: 56645
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812
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parents: 56645
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813 ** When using Exceed, fonts sometimes appear too tall.
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parents: 56645
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814
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parents: 56645
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815 When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified
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parents: 56645
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816 (either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources)
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parents: 56645
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817 then the fonts may appear "too tall". The actual character sizes are
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818 correct but there is too much vertical spacing between rows, which
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parents: 56645
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819 gives the appearance of "double spacing".
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820
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821 To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution"
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parents: 56645
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822 feature (in the font part of the configuration window).
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parents: 56645
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823
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824 * Internationalization problems
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parents: 56645
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825
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parents: 56645
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826 ** Characters from the mule-unicode charsets aren't displayed under X.
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f0fe517ae1cf XFree86 4 iso10646-1 fonts.
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827
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parents: 47785
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828 XFree86 4 contains many fonts in iso10646-1 encoding which have
51316
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829 minimal character repertoires (whereas the encoding part of the font
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830 name is meant to be a reasonable indication of the repertoire
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831 according to the XLFD spec). Emacs may choose one of these to display
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832 characters from the mule-unicode charsets and then typically won't be
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833 able to find the glyphs to display many characters. (Check with C-u
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834 C-x = .) To avoid this, you may need to use a fontset which sets the
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835 font for the mule-unicode sets explicitly. E.g. to use GNU unifont,
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836 include in the fontset spec:
47994
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837
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838 mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\
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839 mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\
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840 mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1
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841
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842 ** The UTF-8/16/7 coding systems don't encode CJK (Far Eastern) characters.
51316
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843
65518
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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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847
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848 GB2312, Big5, JISX0208, JISX0212, JISX0213-1, JISX0213-2, KSC5601
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849
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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,
a3cb8f9ce434 Fix the paragraph describing the limitation of
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parents: 65362
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853 in Chinese-GB, most of them are decoded into chinese-gb2312.
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854
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855 If you read UTF-8 data with code points outside these ranges, the
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856 characters appear in the buffer as raw bytes of the original UTF-8
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857 (composed into a single quasi-character) and they will be written back
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parents: 51132
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858 correctly as UTF-8, assuming you don't break the composed sequences.
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parents: 51132
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859 If you read such characters from UTF-16 or UTF-7 data, they are
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parents: 51132
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860 substituted with the Unicode `replacement character', and you lose
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861 information.
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parents: 51132
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862
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863 ** Mule-UCS loads very slowly.
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864
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865 Changes to Emacs internals interact badly with Mule-UCS's `un-define'
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866 library, which is the usual interface to Mule-UCS. Apply the
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867 following patch to Mule-UCS 0.84 and rebuild it. That will help,
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868 though loading will still be slower than in Emacs 20. (Some
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869 distributions, such as Debian, may already have applied such a patch.)
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870
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871 --- lisp/un-define.el 6 Mar 2001 22:41:38 -0000 1.30
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872 +++ lisp/un-define.el 19 Apr 2002 18:34:26 -0000
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873 @@ -610,13 +624,21 @@ by calling post-read-conversion and pre-
49600
23a1cea22d13 Trailing whitespace deleted.
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874
46677
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875 (mapcar
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876 (lambda (x)
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877 - (mapcar
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878 - (lambda (y)
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879 - (mucs-define-coding-system
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880 - (nth 0 y) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y)
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881 - (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y) (nth 6 y))
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882 - (coding-system-put (car y) 'alias-coding-systems (list (car x))))
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883 - (cdr x)))
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884 + (if (fboundp 'register-char-codings)
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885 + ;; Mule 5, where we don't need the eol-type specified and
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886 + ;; register-char-codings may be very slow for these coding
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887 + ;; system definitions.
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888 + (let ((y (cadr x)))
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889 + (mucs-define-coding-system
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890 + (car x) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y)
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891 + (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y)))
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parents: 46658
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892 + (mapcar
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893 + (lambda (y)
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894 + (mucs-define-coding-system
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895 + (nth 0 y) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y)
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896 + (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y) (nth 6 y))
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897 + (coding-system-put (car y) 'alias-coding-systems (list (car x)))))
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898 + (cdr x)))
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899 `((utf-8
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900 (utf-8-unix
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901 ?u "UTF-8 coding system"
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902
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903 Note that Emacs has native support for Unicode, roughly equivalent to
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parents: 46658
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904 Mule-UCS's, so you may not need it.
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905
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906 ** Mule-UCS compilation problem.
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parents: 65134
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907
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908 Emacs of old versions and XEmacs byte-compile the form `(progn progn
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909 ...)' the same way as `(progn ...)', but Emacs of version 21.3 and the
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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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parents: 65134
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912 make it compiled by the latest Emacs.
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913
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914 --- mucs-ccl.el 2 Sep 2005 00:42:23 -0000 1.1.1.1
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915 +++ mucs-ccl.el 2 Sep 2005 01:31:51 -0000 1.3
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916 @@ -639,10 +639,14 @@
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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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920 - `(progn
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921 - (setq mucs-ccl-facility-alist
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922 - (quote ,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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929 + `((setq mucs-ccl-facility-alist
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930 + (quote ,mucs-ccl-facility-alist))
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931 + ,@result)))
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932
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933 ;;; Add hook for embedding translation informations to a package.
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934 (add-hook 'mucs-package-definition-end-hook
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935
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936 ** Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _.
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937
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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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parents: 34695
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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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944
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945 To see what glyphs are included in a font, use `xfd', like this:
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946
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947 xfd -fn -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
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948
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949 If this shows only ASCII glyphs, the font is indeed the source of the
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950 problem.
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951
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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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955
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956 ** The `oc-unicode' package doesn't work with Emacs 21.
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957
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958 This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free
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959 slots now. The current built-in Unicode support is actually more
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960 flexible. (Use option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' if you need CJK
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961 support.) Files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode aren't
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962 generally read correctly by Emacs 21.
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963
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964 ** After a while, Emacs slips into unibyte mode.
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965
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966 The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does
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967 (standard-display-european t)
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968 That should be changed to
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969 (standard-display-european 1 t)
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970
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971 * X runtime problems
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972
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973 ** X keyboard problems
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974
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975 *** You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key.
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976
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977 This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym
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978 Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11
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979 character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key
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980 to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap.
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981
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982 For example, here's one way to turn it into a Meta key:
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983
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984 xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Meta_L"
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985
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986 If all users at your site of a particular keyboard prefer Meta to
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987 Compose, you can make the remapping happen automatically by adding the
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988 xmodmap command to the xdm setup script for that display.
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989
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990 *** Using X Windows, control-shift-leftbutton makes Emacs hang.
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991
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992 Use the shell command `xset bc' to make the old X Menu package work.
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993
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994 *** C-SPC fails to work on Fedora GNU/Linux.
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995
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996 Fedora Core 4 steals the C-SPC key by default for the `iiimx' program
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997 which is the input method for some languages. It blocks Emacs users
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998 from using the C-SPC key for `set-mark-command'.
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999
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1000 One solutions is to remove the `<Ctrl>space' from the `Iiimx' file
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1001 which can be found in the `/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults' directory.
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1002 However, that requires root access.
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1003
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1004 Another is to specify `Emacs*useXIM: false' in your X resources.
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1005
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1006 Another is to build Emacs with the `--without-xim' configure option.
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1007
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1008 *** M-SPC seems to be ignored as input.
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1009
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1010 See if your X server is set up to use this as a command
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1011 for character composition.
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1012
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1013 *** The S-C-t key combination doesn't get passed to Emacs on X.
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1014
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1015 This happens because some X configurations assign the Ctrl-Shift-t
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1016 combination the same meaning as the Multi_key. The offending
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1017 definition is in the file `...lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose'; there
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1018 might be other similar combinations which are grabbed by X for similar
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1019 purposes.
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1020
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1021 We think that this can be countermanded with the `xmodmap' utility, if
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1022 you want to be able to bind one of these key sequences within Emacs.
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1023
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1024 *** Under X, C-v and/or other keys don't work.
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1025
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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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1030 change this.
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1031
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1032 *** Clicking C-mouse-2 in the scroll bar doesn't split the window.
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1033
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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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1037
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1038 *** Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating
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1039 directly with an X server.
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1040
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1041 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it
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1042 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is
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1043 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c
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1044 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event
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1045 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you
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1046 have made the key binding correctly.
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1047
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1048 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may
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1049 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X
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1050 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by
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1051 default.
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1052
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1053 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows:
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1054
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1055 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L'
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1056 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R'
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1057
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1058 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those
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1059 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you
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1060 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any
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1061 modifier bit not otherwise used.
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1062
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1063 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other
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1064 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or
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1065 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the
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1066 commands show above to make them modifier keys.
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1067
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1068 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt
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1069 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs.
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1070
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1071 ** Window-manager and toolkit-related problems
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1072
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1073 *** Gnome: Emacs' xterm-mouse-mode doesn't work on the Gnome terminal.
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1074
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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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1079 been filed.
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1080
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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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1083
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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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1086 background.
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1087
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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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1093
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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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1097 so that it doesn't set the default background and foreground only for
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1098 Emacs. For example, make sure the following resources are either not
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1099 present or commented out:
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1100
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1101 Emacs.default.attributeForeground
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1102 Emacs.default.attributeBackground
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1103 Emacs*Foreground
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1104 Emacs*Background
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1105
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1106 *** KDE: Emacs hangs on KDE when a large portion of text is killed.
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1107
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1108 This is caused by a bug in the KDE applet `klipper' which periodically
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1109 requests the X clipboard contents from applications. Early versions
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1110 of klipper don't implement the ICCCM protocol for large selections,
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1111 which leads to Emacs being flooded with selection requests. After a
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1112 while, Emacs may print a message:
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1113
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1114 Timed out waiting for property-notify event
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1115
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1116 A workaround is to not use `klipper'. An upgrade to the `klipper' that
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1117 comes with KDE 3.3 or later also solves the problem.
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1118
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1119 *** CDE: Frames may cover dialogs they created when using CDE.
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1120
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1121 This can happen if you have "Allow Primary Windows On Top" enabled which
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1122 seems to be the default in the Common Desktop Environment.
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1123 To change, go in to "Desktop Controls" -> "Window Style Manager"
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1124 and uncheck "Allow Primary Windows On Top".
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1125
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1126 *** Xaw3d : When using Xaw3d scroll bars without arrows, the very first mouse
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1127 click in a scroll bar might be ignored by the scroll bar widget. This
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1128 is probably a bug in Xaw3d; when Xaw3d is compiled with arrows, the
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1129 problem disappears.
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1130
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1131 *** Xaw: There are known binary incompatibilities between Xaw, Xaw3d, neXtaw,
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1132 XawM and the few other derivatives of Xaw. So when you compile with
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1133 one of these, it may not work to dynamically link with another one.
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1134 For example, strange problems, such as Emacs exiting when you type
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1135 "C-x 1", were reported when Emacs compiled with Xaw3d and libXaw was
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1136 used with neXtaw at run time.
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1137
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1138 The solution is to rebuild Emacs with the toolkit version you actually
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1139 want to use, or set LD_PRELOAD to preload the same toolkit version you
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1140 built Emacs with.
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1141
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1142 *** Open Motif: Problems with file dialogs in Emacs built with Open Motif.
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1143
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1144 When Emacs 21 is built with Open Motif 2.1, it can happen that the
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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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1148
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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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1151
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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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1154 the minibuffer instead of a graphical file dialog.
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1155
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1156 *** LessTif: Problems in Emacs built with LessTif.
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1157
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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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1160
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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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1168
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1169 On some systems, even with Motif 1.2 emulation, Emacs occasionally
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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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1173
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1174 *** Motif: The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color.
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1175
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1176 This has been observed to result from the following X resource:
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1177
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1178 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
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1179
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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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1184
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1185 ** General X problems
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1186
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1187 *** Redisplay using X11 is much slower than previous Emacs versions.
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1188
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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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1192 on the right (as they were in Emacs 19).
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1193
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1194 Here's how to do this:
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1195
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1196 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'right)
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1197
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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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1200 to normal, do
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1201
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1202 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'left)
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1203
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1204 *** Error messages about undefined colors on X.
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1205
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1206 The messages might say something like this:
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1207
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1208 Unable to load color "grey95"
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1209
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1210 (typically, in the `*Messages*' buffer), or something like this:
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1211
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1212 Error while displaying tooltip: (error Undefined color lightyellow)
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1213
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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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1217
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1218 A solution is to exit the offending X programs before starting Emacs.
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1219
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1220 "undefined color" messages can also occur if the RgbPath entry in the
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1221 X configuration file is incorrect, or the rgb.txt file is not where
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1222 X expects to find it.
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1223
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1224 *** Improving performance with slow X connections.
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1225
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1226 There are several ways to improve this performance, any subset of which can
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1227 be carried out at the same time:
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1228
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1229 1) If you don't need X Input Methods (XIM) for entering text in some
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1230 language you use, you can improve performance on WAN links by using
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1231 the X resource useXIM to turn off use of XIM. This does not affect
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1232 the use of Emacs' own input methods, which are part of the Leim
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1233 package.
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1234
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1235 2) If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider
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1236 switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar.
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1237
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1238 3) Use ssh to forward the X connection, and enable compression on this
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1239 forwarded X connection (ssh -XC remotehostname emacs ...).
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1240
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1241 4) Use lbxproxy on the remote end of the connection. This is an interface
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1242 to the low bandwidth X extension in most modern X servers, which
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1243 improves performance dramatically, at the slight expense of correctness
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1244 of the X protocol. lbxproxy acheives the performance gain by grouping
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1245 several X requests in one TCP packet and sending them off together,
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1246 instead of requiring a round-trip for each X request in a seperate
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1247 packet. The switches that seem to work best for emacs are:
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1248 -noatomsfile -nowinattr -cheaterrors -cheatevents
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1249 Note that the -nograbcmap option is known to cause problems.
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1250 For more about lbxproxy, see:
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1251 http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/lbxproxy.1.html
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1252
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1253 *** Emacs gives the error, Couldn't find per display information.
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1254
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1255 This can result if the X server runs out of memory because Emacs uses
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1256 a large number of fonts. On systems where this happens, C-h h is
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1257 likely to cause it.
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1258
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1259 We do not know of a way to prevent the problem.
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1260
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1261 *** Emacs does not notice when you release the mouse.
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1262
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1263 There are reports that this happened with (some) Microsoft mice and
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1264 that replacing the mouse made it stop.
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1265
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1266 *** You can't select from submenus (in the X toolkit version).
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1267
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1268 On certain systems, mouse-tracking and selection in top-level menus
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1269 works properly with the X toolkit, but neither of them works when you
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1270 bring up a submenu (such as Bookmarks or Compare or Apply Patch, in
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1271 the Files menu).
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1272
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1273 This works on most systems. There is speculation that the failure is
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1274 due to bugs in old versions of X toolkit libraries, but no one really
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1275 knows. If someone debugs this and finds the precise cause, perhaps a
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1276 workaround can be found.
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1277
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1278 *** An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid
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1279 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'.
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1280
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1281 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as
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1282 emacs*Cursor: black
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1283 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something
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1284 that isn't a color.)
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1285
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1286 The fix is to correct your X resources.
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1287
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1288 *** Slow startup on X11R6 with X windows.
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1289
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1290 If Emacs takes two minutes to start up on X11R6, see if your X
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1291 resources specify any Adobe fonts. That causes the type-1 font
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1292 renderer to start up, even if the font you asked for is not a type-1
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1293 font.
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1294
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1295 One way to avoid this problem is to eliminate the type-1 fonts from
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1296 your font path, like this:
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1297
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1298 xset -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
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1299
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1300 *** Pull-down menus appear in the wrong place, in the toolkit version of Emacs.
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1301
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1302 An X resource of this form can cause the problem:
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1303
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1304 Emacs*geometry: 80x55+0+0
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1305
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1306 This resource is supposed to apply, and does apply, to the menus
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1307 individually as well as to Emacs frames. If that is not what you
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1308 want, rewrite the resource.
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1309
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1310 To check thoroughly for such resource specifications, use `xrdb
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1311 -query' to see what resources the X server records, and also look at
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1312 the user's ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-* files.
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1313
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1314 *** Emacs running under X Windows does not handle mouse clicks.
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1315 *** `emacs -geometry 80x20' finds a file named `80x20'.
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1316
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1317 One cause of such problems is having (setq term-file-prefix nil) in
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1318 your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in
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1319 the environment.
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1320
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1321 *** Emacs fails to get default settings from X Windows server.
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1322
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1323 The X library in X11R4 has a bug; it interchanges the 2nd and 3rd
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1324 arguments to XGetDefaults. Define the macro XBACKWARDS in config.h to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1325 tell Emacs to compensate for this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1326
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1327 I don't believe there is any way Emacs can determine for itself
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1328 whether this problem is present on a given system.
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1329
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1330 *** X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname.
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1331
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1332 People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs
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1333 not to work with X Windows if DISPLAY is set using a host name. But
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1334 the problem does not occur if DISPLAY is set to `unix:0.0'. I think
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1335 the bug has to do with SIGIO or FIONREAD.
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1336
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1337 You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil).
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1338 However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that
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1339 you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g.
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1340
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23a1cea22d13 Trailing whitespace deleted.
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1341 The easy way to do this is to put
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1342
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1343 (setq x-sigio-bug t)
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1344
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1345 in your site-init.el file.
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1346
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1347 * Runtime problems on character termunals
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1348
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1349 ** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen.
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1350
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1351 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being
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1352 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes
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1353 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1354 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a
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1355 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a
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1356 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1357 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is
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1358 easy, for a person with at least half a brain.
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1359
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1360 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place:
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1361
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1362 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control
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1363 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use
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1364 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible
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1365
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1366 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether
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1367 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to
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1368 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1369 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off
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1370 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow
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1371 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on.
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1372
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1373 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1374 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled
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1375 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud
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1376 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print
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1377 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1378 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If
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1379 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a
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1380 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard
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1381 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type.
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1382
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1383 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just
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1384 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control
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1385 codes. You might as well try it.
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1386
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1387 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer
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1388 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1389 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how
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1390 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow
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1391 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard),
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1392 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator
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1393 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic
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1394 measures can make Emacs semi-work.
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1395
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1396 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system
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1397 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x
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1398 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are
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1399 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x
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1400 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow
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1401 control handling.)
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1402
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1403 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them
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1404 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose
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1405 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement
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1406 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all
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1407 other control characters are already used by emacs.
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1408
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1409 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled,
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1410 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in
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1411 order to continue.
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1412
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1413 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a
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1414 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function
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1415 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme
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1416 automatically. Here is an example:
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1417
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1418 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
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1419
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1420 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled
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1421 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control
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1422 manually.
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1423
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1424 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1425 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow
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1426 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1427 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming
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1428 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1429 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1430 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake
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1431 of inferior systems.
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1432
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1433 ** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely.
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1434
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1435 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1436 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1437 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1438 that wants to use flow control.
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1439
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1440 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1441 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without
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parents:
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1442 flow control, as described in the preceding section.
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1443
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1444 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1445 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1446 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\.
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1447
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1448 ** Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal.
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1449
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1450 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that
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1451 terminal is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1452 the combination of features specified for that terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1453
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1454 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters
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1455 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1456 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1457 terminal output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1458 what makes the screen update wrong, and look at the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1459 and decode the characters using the manual for the terminal.
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1460 There are several possibilities:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1461
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1462 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual.
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1463
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1464 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you
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1465 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong.
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1466
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1467 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1468 of the terminal behavior not described in an obvious way
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1469 by termcap.
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1470
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1471 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for
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1472 Emacs to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior
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1473 and other terminals that behave subtly differently but are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1474 classified the same by termcap; or else find an algorithm for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1475 Emacs to use that avoids the difference. Such changes must be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1476 tested on many kinds of terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1477
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1478 3) The termcap entry is wrong.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1479
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1480 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes
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1481 that are known to be needed in commonly used termcap entries
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1482 for certain terminals.
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1483
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1484 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1485 right for any terminal with the termcap entry you were using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1486
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1487 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1488 in termcap.c, tparam.c, term.c, scroll.c, cm.c or dispnew.c.
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1489
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1490 ** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely on a net connection.
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1491
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1492 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow
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1493 control characters to the remote system to which they connect.
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1494 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow
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1495 control on the local system.
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1496
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1497 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host
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1498 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the
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1499 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems,
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1500 "stty start u stop u" will do this.
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1501
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1502 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way
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1503 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and
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1504 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell.
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1505
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1506 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type
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1507 M-x enable-flow-control at the beginning of your emacs session, or
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1508 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the
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1509 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind):
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1510
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1511 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
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1512
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1513 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more
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1514 info.
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1515
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1516 ** Output from Control-V is slow.
25853
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1517
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1518 On many bit-map terminals, scrolling operations are fairly slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1519 Often the termcap entry for the type of terminal in use fails
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1520 to inform Emacs of this. The two lines at the bottom of the screen
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1521 before a Control-V command are supposed to appear at the top after
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1522 the Control-V command. If Emacs thinks scrolling the lines is fast,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1523 it will scroll them to the top of the screen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1524
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1525 If scrolling is slow but Emacs thinks it is fast, the usual reason is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1526 that the termcap entry for the terminal you are using does not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1527 specify any padding time for the `al' and `dl' strings. Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1528 concludes that these operations take only as much time as it takes to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1529 send the commands at whatever line speed you are using. You must
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1530 fix the termcap entry to specify, for the `al' and `dl', as much
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1531 time as the operations really take.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1532
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1533 Currently Emacs thinks in terms of serial lines which send characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1534 at a fixed rate, so that any operation which takes time for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1535 terminal to execute must also be padded. With bit-map terminals
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1536 operated across networks, often the network provides some sort of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1537 flow control so that padding is never needed no matter how slow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1538 an operation is. You must still specify a padding time if you want
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1539 Emacs to realize that the operation takes a long time. This will
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1540 cause padding characters to be sent unnecessarily, but they do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1541 not really cost much. They will be transmitted while the scrolling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1542 is happening and then discarded quickly by the terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1543
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1544 Most bit-map terminals provide commands for inserting or deleting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1545 multiple lines at once. Define the `AL' and `DL' strings in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1546 termcap entry to say how to do these things, and you will have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1547 fast output without wasted padding characters. These strings should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1548 each contain a single %-spec saying how to send the number of lines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1549 to be scrolled. These %-specs are like those in the termcap
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1550 `cm' string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1551
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1552 You should also define the `IC' and `DC' strings if your terminal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1553 has a command to insert or delete multiple characters. These
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1554 take the number of positions to insert or delete as an argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1555
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1556 A `cs' string to set the scrolling region will reduce the amount
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1557 of motion you see on the screen when part of the screen is scrolled.
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1558
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1559 ** You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters.
25853
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1560
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1561 Put `stty dec' in your .login file and your problems will disappear
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1562 after a day or two.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1563
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1564 The choice of Backspace for erasure was based on confusion, caused by
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parents:
diff changeset
1565 the fact that backspacing causes erasure (later, when you type another
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1566 character) on most display terminals. But it is a mistake. Deletion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1567 of text is not the same thing as backspacing followed by failure to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1568 overprint. I do not wish to propagate this confusion by conforming
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parents:
diff changeset
1569 to it.
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parents:
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1570
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parents:
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1571 For this reason, I believe `stty dec' is the right mode to use,
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parents:
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1572 and I have designed Emacs to go with that. If there were a thousand
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1573 other control characters, I would define Control-h to delete as well;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1574 but there are not very many other control characters, and I think
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1575 that providing the most mnemonic possible Help character is more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1576 important than adapting to people who don't use `stty dec'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1577
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1578 If you are obstinate about confusing buggy overprinting with deletion,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1579 you can redefine Backspace in your .emacs file:
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parents:
diff changeset
1580 (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1581 You can probably access help-command via f1.
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parents:
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1582
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1583 ** Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm.
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1584
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1585 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal
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1586 emulators, but this support relies on the terminfo or termcap database
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1587 entry to specify that the display supports color. Emacs looks at the
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1588 "Co" capability for the terminal to find out how many colors are
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1589 supported; it should be non-zero to activate the color support within
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1590 Emacs. (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.) If your system
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1591 uses terminfo, the name of the capability equivalent to "Co" is
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1592 "colors".
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1593
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1594 In addition to the "Co" capability, Emacs needs the "op" (for
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1595 ``original pair'') capability, which tells how to switch the terminal
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1596 back to the default foreground and background colors. Emacs will not
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1597 use colors if this capability is not defined. If your terminal entry
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1598 doesn't provide such a capability, try using the ANSI standard escape
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1599 sequence \E[00m (that is, define a new termcap/terminfo entry and make
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1600 it use your current terminal's entry plus \E[00m for the "op"
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1601 capability).
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1602
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1603 Finally, the "NC" capability (terminfo name: "ncv") tells Emacs which
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1604 attributes cannot be used with colors. Setting this capability
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1605 incorrectly might have the effect of disabling colors; try setting
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1606 this capability to `0' (zero) and see if that helps.
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1607
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1608 Emacs uses the database entry for the terminal whose name is the value
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1609 of the environment variable TERM. With `xterm', a common terminal
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1610 entry that supports color is `xterm-color', so setting TERM's value to
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1611 `xterm-color' might activate the color support on an xterm-compatible
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1612 emulator.
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1613
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aac0a33f5772 Change release version from 21.4 to 22.1 throughout.
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1614 Beginning with version 22.1, Emacs supports the --color command-line
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1615 option which may be used to force Emacs to use one of a few popular
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1616 modes for getting colors on a tty. For example, --color=ansi8 sets up
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1617 for using the ANSI-standard escape sequences that support 8 colors.
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1618
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1619 Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the Font-lock mode.
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1620 Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on
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1621 Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty. The
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1622 recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing "M-x
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1623 global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the variable
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1624 `global-font-lock-mode'.
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1625
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1626 * Runtime problems specific to individual Unix variants
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1627
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1628 ** GNU/Linux
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1629
63126
33a466a1789c Linux kernel 2.6.10 may corrupt process output.
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parents: 60158
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1630 *** GNU/Linux: Process output is corrupted.
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1631
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1632 There is a bug in Linux kernel 2.6.10 PTYs that can cause emacs to
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parents: 60158
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1633 read corrupted process output.
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parents: 60158
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1634
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1635 *** GNU/Linux: Remote access to CVS with SSH causes file corruption.
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parents: 60158
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1636
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1637 If you access a remote CVS repository via SSH, files may be corrupted
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parents: 60158
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1638 due to bad interaction between CVS, SSH, and libc.
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parents: 60158
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1639
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1640 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it
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1641 executable, and set CVS_RSH environment variable to the file name of
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parents: 60158
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1642 the script:
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1643
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1644 #!/bin/bash
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1645 exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null)
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1646 exec ssh "$@"
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1647
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1648 *** GNU/Linux: On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through
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1649 5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault.
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1650
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1651 This problem happens if libc defines the symbol __malloc_initialized.
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1652 One known solution is to upgrade to a newer libc version. 5.4.33 is
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1653 known to work.
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1654
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1655 *** GNU/Linux: After upgrading to a newer version of Emacs,
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1656 the Meta key stops working.
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1657
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1658 This was reported to happen on a GNU/Linux system distributed by
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1659 Mandrake. The reason is that the previous version of Emacs was
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1660 modified by Mandrake to make the Alt key act as the Meta key, on a
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1661 keyboard where the Windows key is the one which produces the Meta
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1662 modifier. A user who started using a newer version of Emacs, which
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1663 was not hacked by Mandrake, expected the Alt key to continue to act as
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1664 Meta, and was astonished when that didn't happen.
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1665
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1666 The solution is to find out what key on your keyboard produces the Meta
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1667 modifier, and use that key instead. Try all of the keys to the left
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1668 and to the right of the space bar, together with the `x' key, and see
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1669 which combination produces "M-x" in the echo area. You can also use
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1670 the `xmodmap' utility to show all the keys which produce a Meta
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1671 modifier:
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1672
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1673 xmodmap -pk | egrep -i "meta|alt"
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1674
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1675 A more convenient way of finding out which keys produce a Meta modifier
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1676 is to use the `xkbprint' utility, if it's available on your system:
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1677
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1678 xkbprint 0:0 /tmp/k.ps
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1679
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1680 This produces a PostScript file `/tmp/k.ps' with a picture of your
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1681 keyboard; printing that file on a PostScript printer will show what
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1682 keys can serve as Meta.
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1683
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1684 The `xkeycaps' also shows a visual representation of the current
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1685 keyboard settings. It also allows to modify them.
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1686
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1687 *** GNU/Linux: low startup on Linux-based GNU systems.
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1688
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1689 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that
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1690 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'.
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1691
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1692 This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts.
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1693 Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to
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1694 improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both
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1695 networked and non-networked machines.
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1696
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1697 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root.
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1698
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1699 **** Networked Case.
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1700
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1701 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both
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1702 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this
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1703 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name):
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1704
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1705 127.0.0.1 HOSTNAME
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1706
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1707 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
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1708 lines:
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1709
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1710 order hosts, bind
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1711 multi on
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1712
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1713 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
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1714 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
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1715 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections
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1716 dynamically allocate ip addresses).
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1717
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1718 **** Non-Networked Case.
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1719
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1720 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well.
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1721 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a
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1722 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command
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1723 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts'
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1724 file is not necessary with this approach.
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1725
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1726 *** GNU/Linux: Emacs on a tty switches the cursor to large blinking block.
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1727
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1728 This was reported to happen on some GNU/Linux systems which use
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1729 ncurses version 5.0, but could be relevant for other versions as well.
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1730 These versions of ncurses come with a `linux' terminfo entry, where
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1731 the "cvvis" capability (termcap "vs") is defined as "\E[?25h\E[?8c"
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1732 (show cursor, change size). This escape sequence switches on a
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1733 blinking hardware text-mode cursor whose size is a full character
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1734 cell. This blinking cannot be stopped, since a hardware cursor
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1735 always blinks.
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1736
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1737 A work-around is to redefine the "cvvis" capability so that it
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1738 enables a *software* cursor. The software cursor works by inverting
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1739 the colors of the character at point, so what you see is a block
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1740 cursor that doesn't blink. For this to work, you need to redefine
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1741 the "cnorm" capability as well, so that it operates on the software
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1742 cursor instead of the hardware cursor.
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1743
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1744 To this end, run "infocmp linux > linux-term", edit the file
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1745 `linux-term' to make both the "cnorm" and "cvvis" capabilities send
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1746 the sequence "\E[?25h\E[?17;0;64c", and then run "tic linux-term" to
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1747 produce a modified terminfo entry.
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1748
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1749 Alternatively, if you want a blinking underscore as your Emacs cursor,
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1750 change the "cvvis" capability to send the "\E[?25h\E[?0c" command.
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1751
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1752 *** GNU/Linux: Error messages `internal facep []' happen on GNU/Linux systems.
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1753
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1754 There is a report that replacing libc.so.5.0.9 with libc.so.5.2.16
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1755 caused this to start happening. People are not sure why, but the
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1756 problem seems unlikely to be in Emacs itself. Some suspect that it
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1757 is actually Xlib which won't work with libc.so.5.2.16.
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1758
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1759 Using the old library version is a workaround.
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1760
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1761 ** Mac OS X
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1762
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1763 *** Mac OS X (Carbon): Environment Variables from dotfiles are ignored.
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1764
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1765 When starting Emacs from the Dock or the Finder on Mac OS X, the
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1766 environment variables that are set up in dotfiles, such as .cshrc or
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1767 .profile, are ignored. This is because the Finder and Dock are not
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1768 started from a shell, but instead from the Window Manager itself.
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1769
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1770 The workaround for this is to create a .MacOSX/environment.plist file to
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1771 setup these environment variables. These environment variables will
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1772 apply to all processes regardless of where they are started.
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1773 For me information, see http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html.
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1774
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1775 *** Mac OS X (Carbon): Process output truncated when using ptys.
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1776
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1777 There appears to be a problem with the implementation of pty's on the
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1778 Mac OS X that causes process output to be truncated. To avoid this,
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1779 leave process-connection-type set to its default value of nil.
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1780
68771
a49c90df9eb9 (Mac OS X): Add QuickTime 7.0.4 / Mac OS X 10.3.9 breakage.
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
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1781 *** Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Carbon): QuickTime 7.0.4 updater breaks build.
a49c90df9eb9 (Mac OS X): Add QuickTime 7.0.4 / Mac OS X 10.3.9 breakage.
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
parents: 68640
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1782
a49c90df9eb9 (Mac OS X): Add QuickTime 7.0.4 / Mac OS X 10.3.9 breakage.
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parents: 68640
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1783 On the above environment, build fails at the link stage with the
a49c90df9eb9 (Mac OS X): Add QuickTime 7.0.4 / Mac OS X 10.3.9 breakage.
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
parents: 68640
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1784 message like "Undefined symbols: _HICopyAccessibilityActionDescription
a49c90df9eb9 (Mac OS X): Add QuickTime 7.0.4 / Mac OS X 10.3.9 breakage.
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
parents: 68640
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1785 referenced from QuickTime expected to be defined in Carbon". A
a49c90df9eb9 (Mac OS X): Add QuickTime 7.0.4 / Mac OS X 10.3.9 breakage.
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
parents: 68640
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1786 workaround is to use QuickTime 7.0.1 reinstaller.
a49c90df9eb9 (Mac OS X): Add QuickTime 7.0.4 / Mac OS X 10.3.9 breakage.
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parents: 68640
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1787
56734
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1788 ** FreeBSD
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1789
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1790 *** FreeBSD 2.1.5: useless symbolic links remain in /tmp or other
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1791 directories that have the +t bit.
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1792
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1793 This is because of a kernel bug in FreeBSD 2.1.5 (fixed in 2.2).
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1794 Emacs uses symbolic links to implement file locks. In a directory
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parents: 56645
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1795 with +t bit, the directory owner becomes the owner of the symbolic
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1796 link, so that it cannot be removed by anyone else.
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1797
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1798 If you don't like those useless links, you can let Emacs not to using
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1799 file lock by adding #undef CLASH_DETECTION to config.h.
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1800
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1801 *** FreeBSD: Getting a Meta key on the console.
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1802
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1803 By default, neither Alt nor any other key acts as a Meta key on
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1804 FreeBSD, but this can be changed using kbdcontrol(1). Dump the
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1805 current keymap to a file with the command
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1806
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1807 $ kbdcontrol -d >emacs.kbd
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1808
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1809 Edit emacs.kbd, and give the key you want to be the Meta key the
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1810 definition `meta'. For instance, if your keyboard has a ``Windows''
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1811 key with scan code 105, change the line for scan code 105 in emacs.kbd
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1812 to look like this
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1813
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1814 105 meta meta meta meta meta meta meta meta O
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1815
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1816 to make the Windows key the Meta key. Load the new keymap with
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1817
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1818 $ kbdcontrol -l emacs.kbd
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1819
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1820 ** HP-UX
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1821
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1822 *** HP/UX : Shell mode gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".
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1823
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1824 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says:
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1825
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1826 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
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1827 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then
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1828 tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places,
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1829 but tty is giving it back 3.
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1830
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1831 The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a single
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1832 word:
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1833
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1834 if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
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1835
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1836 should be changed to:
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1837
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1838 if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
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1839
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1840 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
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1841 and into .login.
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1842
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1843 *** HP/UX: `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'.
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1844
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1845 On HP/UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS
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1846 file system. HP/UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and
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1847 does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default
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1848 value is just ten seconds.
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1849
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1850 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period.
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1851
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1852 *** HP/UX: The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps
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1853 other non-English HP keyboards too).
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1854
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1855 This is because HP-UX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a
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1856 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE
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1857 configures the X server.
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1858
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1859 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
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1860 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
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1861 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
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1862 EOF
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1863
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1864 xmodmap - << EOF
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1865 clear mod1
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1866 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
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1867 add mod1 = Meta_L
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1868 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
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1869 add mod2 = Mode_switch
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1870 EOF
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1871
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1872 *** HP/UX: "Cannot find callback list" messages from dialog boxes in
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1873 Emacs built with Motif.
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1874
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1875 This problem resulted from a bug in GCC 2.4.5. Newer GCC versions
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1876 such as 2.7.0 fix the problem.
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1877
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1878 *** HP/UX: Emacs does not recognize the AltGr key.
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1879
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1880 To fix this, set up a file ~/.dt/sessions/sessionetc with executable
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1881 rights, containing this text:
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1882
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1883 --------------------------------
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1884 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
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1885 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
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1886 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
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1887 EOF
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1888
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1889 xmodmap - << EOF
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1890 clear mod1
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1891 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
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1892 add mod1 = Meta_L
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1893 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
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1894 add mod2 = Mode_switch
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1895 EOF
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1896 --------------------------------
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1897
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1898 *** HP/UX 11.0: Emacs makes HP/UX 11.0 crash.
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1899
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1900 This is a bug in HPUX; HPUX patch PHKL_16260 is said to fix it.
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1901
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1902 ** AIX
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1903
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1904 *** AIX: Trouble using ptys.
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1905
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1906 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly.
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1907 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly.
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1908
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1909 *** AIXterm: Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal.
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1910
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1911 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines:
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1912
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1913 *aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f)
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1914 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
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1915
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1916 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127).
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1917
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1918 *** AIX: If linking fails because libXbsd isn't found, check if you
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1919 are compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5'. If
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1920 so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure
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1921 Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'.
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1922
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1923 *** AIX 4.3.x or 4.4: Compiling fails.
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1924
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1925 This could happen if you use /bin/c89 as your compiler, instead of
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1926 the default `cc'. /bin/c89 treats certain warnings, such as benign
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1927 redefinitions of macros, as errors, and fails the build. A solution
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1928 is to use the default compiler `cc'.
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1929
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1930 *** AIX 4: Some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer
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1931 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown".
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1932
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1933 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
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1934 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal
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1935 Definitions" to make them defined.
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1936
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1937 ** Solaris
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1938
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1939 We list bugs in current versions here. Solaris 2.x and 4.x are covered in the
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1940 section on legacy systems.
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1941
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1942 *** On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.
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1943
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1944 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r
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1945 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs.
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1946
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1947 *** Problem with remote X server on Suns.
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1948
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1949 On a Sun, running Emacs on one machine with the X server on another
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1950 may not work if you have used the unshared system libraries. This
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1951 is because the unshared libraries fail to use YP for host name lookup.
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1952 As a result, the host name you specify may not be recognized.
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1953
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1954 *** Solaris 2,6: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame.
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1955
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1956 We suspect that this is a bug in the X libraries provided by
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1957 Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and
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1958 makes the problem stop:
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1959
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1960 105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02
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1961 105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03
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1962 106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01
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1963 105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01
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1964
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1965 Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06)
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1966 suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches:
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1967
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1968 106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch
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1969 106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes
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1970 105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch
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1971
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1972 *** Solaris 7 or 8: Emacs reports a BadAtom error (from X)
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1973
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1974 This happens when Emacs was built on some other version of Solaris.
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1975 Rebuild it on Solaris 8.
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1976
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1977 *** When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down'
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1978 commands do not move the arrow in Emacs.
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1979
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1980 You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit':
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1981
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1982 dbxenv output_short_file_name off
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1983
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1984 *** On Solaris, CTRL-t is ignored by Emacs when you use
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1985 the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales).
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1986
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1987 You can fix this by editing the file:
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1988
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1989 /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose
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1990
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1991 Near the bottom there is a line that reads:
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1992
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1993 Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
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1994
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1995 that should read:
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1996
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1997 Ctrl<T> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
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1998
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1999 Note the lower case <t>. Changing this line should make C-t work.
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2000
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2001 ** Irix
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2002
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2003 *** Irix 6.5: Emacs crashes on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC.
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2004
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2005 This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95.
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2006
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2007 *** Irix: Trouble using ptys, or running out of ptys.
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2008
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2009 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to
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2010 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
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2011 to allocate ptys reliably.
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2012
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2013 * Runtime problems specific to MS-Windows
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2014
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2015 ** Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for MS-Windows.
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2016
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2017 A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this.
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2018 Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the
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2019 problem.
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2020
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2021 ** Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 22.1
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2022
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2023 Using create-fontset-from-ascii-font or the --font startup parameter
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2024 with a Chinese, Japanese or Korean font leads to display problems.
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2025 Use a Latin-only font as your default font. If you want control over
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2026 which font is used to display Chinese, Japanese or Korean character,
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2027 use create-fontset-from-fontset-spec to define a fontset.
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2028
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2029 Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu
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2030 is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menus is not
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2031 displayed at all. This is because message handling under Windows is
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2032 synchronous, so we cannot handle repaint (or any other) messages while
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2033 waiting for a system function to return the result of the dialog or
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2034 pop-up menu interaction.
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2035
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2036 Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text
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2037 for menus. Help text is only available in later versions of Windows.
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2038
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2039 There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the
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2040 mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first
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2041 frame. A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame
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2042 after moving back into it.
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2043
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2044 Some minor flickering still persists during mouse-tracking, although
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2045 not as severely as in 21.1.
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2046
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2047 An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows
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2048 Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed.
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2049
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2050 Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs. Some
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2051 of these input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded
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2052 in the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1
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2053 characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.). To make this
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2054 work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after
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2055 you activate the Windows input method. For example, if you activate
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2056 the Hebrew input method, type "C-x RET k iso-8859-8 RET". (Emacs
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2057 ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the
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2058 appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that
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2059 yet.)
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2060
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2061 The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated
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2062 month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions
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2063 of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system
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2064 library function.
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2065
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2066 ** Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on MS-Windows.
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2067
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2068 This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If
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2069 you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt
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2070 and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way. A
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2071 more permanent work around is to change it to another key combination,
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2072 or disable it in the keyboard control panel.
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2073
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2074 ** Interrupting Cygwin port of Bash from Emacs doesn't work.
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2075
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2076 Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the
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2077 MS-Windows version of Emacs. This is due to some change in the Bash
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2078 port or in the Cygwin library which apparently make Bash ignore the
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2079 keyboard interrupt event sent by Emacs to Bash. (Older Cygwin ports
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2080 of Bash, up to b20.1, did receive SIGINT from Emacs.)
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2081
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2082 ** Accessing remote files with ange-ftp hangs the MS-Windows version of Emacs.
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2083
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2084 If the FTP client is the Cygwin port of GNU `ftp', this appears to be
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2085 due to some bug in the Cygwin DLL or some incompatibility between it
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2086 and the implementation of asynchronous subprocesses in the Windows
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2087 port of Emacs. Specifically, some parts of the FTP server responses
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2088 are not flushed out, apparently due to buffering issues, which
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2089 confuses ange-ftp.
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2090
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2091 The solution is to downgrade to an older version of the Cygwin DLL
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2092 (version 1.3.2 was reported to solve the problem), or use the stock
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2093 Windows FTP client, usually found in the `C:\WINDOWS' or 'C:\WINNT'
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2094 directory. To force ange-ftp use the stock Windows client, set the
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2095 variable `ange-ftp-ftp-program-name' to the absolute file name of the
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2096 client's executable. For example:
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2097
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2098 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "c:/windows/ftp.exe")
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2099
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2100 If you want to stick with the Cygwin FTP client, you can work around
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2101 this problem by putting this in your `.emacs' file:
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2102
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2103 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v" "--prompt" "")
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2104
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2105 ** lpr commands don't work on MS-Windows with some cheap printers.
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2106
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2107 This problem may also strike other platforms, but the solution is
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2108 likely to be a global one, and not Emacs specific.
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2109
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2110 Many cheap inkjet, and even some cheap laser printers, do not
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2111 print plain text anymore, they will only print through graphical
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2112 printer drivers. A workaround on MS-Windows is to use Windows' basic
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2113 built in editor to print (this is possibly the only useful purpose it
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2114 has):
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2115
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2116 (setq printer-name "") ;; notepad takes the default
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2117 (setq lpr-command "notepad") ;; notepad
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2118 (setq lpr-switches nil) ;; not needed
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2119 (setq lpr-printer-switch "/P") ;; run notepad as batch printer
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2120
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2121 ** Antivirus software interacts badly with the MS-Windows version of Emacs.
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2122
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2123 The usual manifestation of these problems is that subprocesses don't
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2124 work or even wedge the entire system. In particular, "M-x shell RET"
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2125 was reported to fail to work. But other commands also sometimes don't
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2126 work when an antivirus package is installed.
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2127
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2128 The solution is to switch the antivirus software to a less aggressive
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2129 mode (e.g., disable the ``auto-protect'' feature), or even uninstall
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2130 or disable it entirely.
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2131
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2132 ** Pressing the mouse button on MS-Windows does not give a mouse-2 event.
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2133
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2134 This is usually a problem with the mouse driver. Because most Windows
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2135 programs do not do anything useful with the middle mouse button, many
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2136 mouse drivers allow you to define the wheel press to do something
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2137 different. Some drivers do not even have the option to generate a
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2138 middle button press. In such cases, setting the wheel press to
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2139 "scroll" sometimes works if you press the button twice. Trying a
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2140 generic mouse driver might help.
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2141
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2142 ** Scrolling the mouse wheel on MS-Windows always scrolls the top window.
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2143
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2144 This is another common problem with mouse drivers. Instead of
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2145 generating scroll events, some mouse drivers try to fake scroll bar
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2146 movement. But they are not intelligent enough to handle multiple
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2147 scroll bars within a frame. Trying a generic mouse driver might help.
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2148
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2149 ** Mail sent through Microsoft Exchange in some encodings appears to be
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2150 mangled and is not seen correctly in Rmail or Gnus. We don't know
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2151 exactly what happens, but it isn't an Emacs problem in cases we've
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2152 seen.
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2153
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2154 ** On MS-Windows, you cannot use the right-hand ALT key and the left-hand
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2155 CTRL key together to type a Control-Meta character.
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2156
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2157 This is a consequence of a misfeature beyond Emacs's control.
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2158
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2159 Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key
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2160 events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl. Since Emacs cannot
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2161 distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl
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2162 combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that
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2163 AltGr has been pressed. The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set
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2164 to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt.
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2165
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2166 ** Under some X-servers running on MS-Windows, Emacs' display is incorrect.
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2167
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2168 The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the
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2169 screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective
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2170 display or when killing a region). M-x recenter will cause the screen
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2171 to be completely redisplayed and the "extra" characters will disappear.
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2172
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2173 This is known to occur under Exceed 6, and possibly earlier versions
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2174 as well; it is reportedly solved in version 6.2.0.16 and later. The
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2175 problem lies in the X-server settings.
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2176
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2177 There are reports that you can solve the problem with Exceed by
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2178 running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then
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2179 un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X
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2180 selection".
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2181
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2182 Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then
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2183 please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix.
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2184 If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it
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2185 here.
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2186
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2187 * Build-time problems
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2188
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2189 ** Configuration
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2190
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2191 *** The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library.
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2192
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2193 There are reports that this happens on some systems because the linker
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2194 by default only looks for shared libraries, but jpeg distribution by
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2195 default only installs a nonshared version of the library, `libjpeg.a'.
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2196
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2197 If this is the problem, you can configure the jpeg library with the
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2198 `--enable-shared' option and then rebuild libjpeg. This produces a
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2199 shared version of libjpeg, which you need to install. Finally, rerun
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2200 the Emacs configure script, which should now find the jpeg library.
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2201 Alternatively, modify the generated src/Makefile to link the .a file
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2202 explicitly, and edit src/config.h to define HAVE_JPEG.
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2203
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2204 ** Compilation
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2205
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2206 *** Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''.
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2207
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2208 This was reported to happen when building Emacs on a GNU/Linux system
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2209 (RedHat Linux 6.2) using a build directory automounted from Solaris
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2210 (SunOS 5.6) file server, but it might not be limited to that
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2211 configuration alone. Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the
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2212 files' data to disk quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is
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2213 left ``busy'' for several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping
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2214 itself. This causes the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped
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2215 Emacs executable to fail with the above message.
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2216
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2217 In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the
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2218 machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make
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2219 (it says that some of the files have modification time in the future).
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2220 This might be a symptom of NFS-related problems.
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2221
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2222 If the NFS server runs on Solaris, apply the Solaris patch 105379-05
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2223 (Sunos 5.6: /kernel/misc/nfssrv patch). If that doesn't work, or if
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2224 you have a different version of the OS or the NFS server, you can
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2225 force the NFS server to use 1KB blocks, which was reported to fix the
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2226 problem albeit at a price of slowing down file I/O. You can force 1KB
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2227 blocks by specifying the "-o rsize=1024,wsize=1024" options to the
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2228 `mount' command, or by adding ",rsize=1024,wsize=1024" to the mount
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2229 options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as
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2230 `/etc/auto.home'.
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2231
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2232 Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for
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2233 a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case,
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2234 waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed
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2235 to work around the problem.
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2236
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2237 Similar problems can happen if your machine NFS-mounts a directory
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2238 onto itself. Suppose the Emacs sources live in `/usr/local/src' and
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2239 you are working on the host called `marvin'. Then an entry in the
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2240 `/etc/fstab' file like the following is asking for trouble:
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2241
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2242 marvin:/usr/local/src /usr/local/src ...options.omitted...
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2243
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2244 The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'.
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2245
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2246 *** Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory.
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2247
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2248 This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one
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2249 of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released
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2250 version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those
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2251 dates; similar problems were reported with some snapshots of GCC 3.1
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2252 around Sep 30 2001. The preprocessor in those versions is
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2253 incompatible with a traditional Unix cpp (e.g., it expands ".." into
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2254 ". .", which breaks relative file names that reference the parent
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2255 directory; or inserts TAB characters before lines that set Make
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2256 variables).
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2257
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2258 The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the
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2259 `-traditional' option. The `configure' script does that automatically
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2260 when it detects the known problems in your cpp, but you might hit some
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2261 unknown ones. To force the `configure' script to use `-traditional',
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2262 run the script like this:
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2263
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2264 CPP='gcc -E -traditional' ./configure ...
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2265
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2266 (replace the ellipsis "..." with any additional arguments you pass to
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2267 the script).
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2268
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2269 Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of
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2270 Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles.
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2271
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2272 *** src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing.
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2273 *** Compiling wakeup, in lib-src, says it can't make wakeup.c.
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2274
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2275 This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version
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2276 had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly.To solve the
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2277 problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun Emacs's
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2278 configure script.
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2279
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2280 *** Compiling lib-src says there is no rule to make test-distrib.c.
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2281
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2282 This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed. To solve
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2283 the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun
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2284 Emacs's configure script.
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2285
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2286 *** Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail.
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2287
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2288 Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin
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2289 version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings. It appears to be
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2290 necessary to specify the -mwin32 flag when compiling, and define
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2291 __MSVCRT__, like so:
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2292
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2293 configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__
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2294
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2295 *** Building the MS-Windows port fails with a CreateProcess failure.
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2296
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2297 Some versions of mingw32 make on some versions of Windows do not seem
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2298 to detect the shell correctly. Try "make SHELL=cmd.exe", or if that
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2299 fails, try running make from Cygwin bash instead.
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2300
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2301 *** Building the MS-Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory.
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2302
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2303 The error message might be something like this:
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2304
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2305 Converting d:/emacs-21.3/leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit to quail-package...
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2306 Invalid ENCODE: value in TIT dictionary
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2307 NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code
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2308 '0xffffffff'
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2309 Stop.
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2310
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2311 This can happen if the Leim distribution is unpacked with a program
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2312 which converts the `*.tit' files to DOS-style CR-LF text format. The
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2313 `*.tit' files in the leim/CXTERM-DIC directory require Unix-style line
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2314 endings to compile properly, because Emacs reads them without any code
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2315 or EOL conversions.
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2316
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2317 The solution is to make sure the program used to unpack Leim does not
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2318 change the files' line endings behind your back. The GNU FTP site has
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2319 in the `/gnu/emacs/windows' directory a program called `djtarnt.exe'
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2320 which can be used to unpack `.tar.gz' and `.zip' archives without
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2321 mangling them.
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2322
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2323 *** Building `ctags' for MS-Windows with the MinGW port of GCC fails.
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2324
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2325 This might happen due to a bug in the MinGW header assert.h, which
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2326 defines the `assert' macro with a trailing semi-colon. The following
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2327 patch to assert.h should solve this:
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2328
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2329 *** include/assert.h.orig Sun Nov 7 02:41:36 1999
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2330 --- include/assert.h Mon Jan 29 11:49:10 2001
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2331 ***************
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2332 *** 41,47 ****
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2333 /*
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2334 * If not debugging, assert does nothing.
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2335 */
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2336 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0);
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2337
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2338 #else /* debugging enabled */
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2339
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2340 --- 41,47 ----
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2341 /*
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2342 * If not debugging, assert does nothing.
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2343 */
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2344 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0)
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2345
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2346 #else /* debugging enabled */
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2347
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2348
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2349 ** Linking
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2350
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2351 *** Building Emacs with a system compiler fails to link because of an
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2352 undefined symbol such as __eprintf which does not appear in Emacs.
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2353
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2354 This can happen if some of the libraries linked into Emacs were built
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2355 with GCC, but Emacs itself is being linked with a compiler other than
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2356 GCC. Object files compiled with GCC might need some helper functions
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2357 from libgcc.a, the library which comes with GCC, but the system
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2358 compiler does not instruct the linker to search libgcc.a during the
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2359 link stage.
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2360
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2361 A solution is to link with GCC, like this:
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2362
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2363 make CC=gcc
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2364
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2365 Since the .o object files already exist, this will not recompile Emacs
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2366 with GCC, but just restart by trying again to link temacs.
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2367
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2368 *** AIX 1.3 ptf 0013: Link failure.
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2369
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2370 There is a real duplicate definition of the function `_slibc_free' in
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2371 the library /lib/libc_s.a (just do nm on it to verify). The
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2372 workaround/fix is:
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2373
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2374 cd /lib
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2375 ar xv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
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2376 ar dv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
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2377
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2378 *** AIX 4.1.2: Linker error messages such as
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2379 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table
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2380 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o.
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2381
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2382 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing
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2383 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where
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2384 you build Emacs:
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2385
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2386 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a .
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2387 chmod 664 libIM.a
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2388 ranlib libIM.a
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2389
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2390 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in
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2391 Makefile).
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2392
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2393 *** Sun with acc: Link failure when using acc on a Sun.
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2394
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2395 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as
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2396
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2397 /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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2398
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2399 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc.
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2400
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2401 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we
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2402 cannot easily arrange to supply them.
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2403
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2404 *** Linking says that the functions insque and remque are undefined.
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diff changeset
2405
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2406 Change oldXMenu/Makefile by adding insque.o to the variable OBJS.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2407
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2408 *** `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2409
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2410 This problem results from an incompatible change in ncurses, in
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2411 version 1.9.9e approximately. This version is unable to provide a
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2412 definition of tparm without also defining tparam. This is also
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2413 incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2414 does not work with this version of ncurses.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2415
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2416 The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2417
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2418 ** Dumping
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2419
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2420 *** Linux: Segfault during `make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2421
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2422 With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Redhat Fedora Core
63968
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2423 1 and newer), the new "Exec-shield" functionality is enabled by default, which
63969
4b9c4819acb4 Added that emacs tries to handle exec-shield at build time.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63968
diff changeset
2424 creates a different memory layout that breaks the emacs dumper. Emacs tries
4b9c4819acb4 Added that emacs tries to handle exec-shield at build time.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63968
diff changeset
2425 to handle this at build time, but if the workaround used fails, these
4b9c4819acb4 Added that emacs tries to handle exec-shield at build time.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63968
diff changeset
2426 instructions can be useful.
63968
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2427 The work-around explained here is not enough on Fedora Core 4 (and possible
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2428 newer). Read the next item.
56734
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2429
57229
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2430 Configure can overcome the problem of exec-shield if the architecture is
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2431 x86 and the program setarch is present. On other architectures no
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2432 workaround is known.
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2433
56734
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2434 You can check the Exec-shield state like this:
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2435
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2436 cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2437
57229
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2438 It returns non-zero when Exec-shield is enabled, 0 otherwise. Please
56734
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2439 read your system documentation for more details on Exec-shield and
57229
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2440 associated commands. Exec-shield can be turned off with this command:
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2441
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2442 echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
56734
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2443
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2444 When Exec-shield is enabled, building Emacs will segfault during the
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2445 execution of this command:
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2446
57229
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2447 ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap]
56734
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2448
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2449 To work around this problem, it is necessary to temporarily disable
57229
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2450 Exec-shield while building Emacs, or, on x86, by using the `setarch'
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2451 command when running temacs like this:
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2452
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2453 setarch i386 ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap]
fb9de0d75bef * PROBLEMS: Updated exec-shield description.
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 56914
diff changeset
2454
63968
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2455
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2456 *** Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping.
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2457
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2458 In addition to exec-shield explained above "Linux: Segfault during
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2459 `make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel"
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2460 item, Linux kernel shipped with Fedora Core 4 randomizes the virtual
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2461 address space of a process. As the result dumping may fail even if
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2462 you turn off exec-shield. In this case, use the -R option to the setarch
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2463 command:
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2464
64489
86ac75fb6283 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63969
diff changeset
2465 setarch i386 -R ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap]
63968
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2466
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2467 or
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2468
64489
86ac75fb6283 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63969
diff changeset
2469 setarch i386 -R make bootstrap
63968
679b14e71677 * PROBLEMS (Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping):
Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
parents: 63883
diff changeset
2470
56734
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2471 *** Fatal signal in the command temacs -l loadup inc dump.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2472
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2473 This command is the final stage of building Emacs. It is run by the
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2474 Makefile in the src subdirectory, or by build.com on VMS.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2475
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2476 It has been known to get fatal errors due to insufficient swapping
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2477 space available on the machine.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2478
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2479 On 68000s, it has also happened because of bugs in the
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2480 subroutine `alloca'. Verify that `alloca' works right, even
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2481 for large blocks (many pages).
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2482
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2483 *** test-distrib says that the distribution has been clobbered.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2484 *** or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127".
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2485 *** or, temacs runs and dumps emacs, but emacs totally fails to work.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2486 *** or, temacs gets errors dumping emacs.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2487
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2488 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2489 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2490 binary files and can contain all 256 byte values.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2491
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2492 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2493 It typically truncates "lines". What appear to be "lines" in
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2494 a binary file can of course be of any length. Even once `shar'
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2495 itself is made to work correctly, `sh' discards null characters
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2496 when unpacking the shell archive.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2497
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2498 I have also seen character \177 changed into \377. I do not know
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2499 what transfer means caused this problem. Various network
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2500 file transfer programs are suspected of clobbering the high bit.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2501
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2502 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2503 nonprinting characters, you can fix them:
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2504
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2505 1) Record the names of all the .elc files.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2506 2) Delete all the .elc files.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2507 3) Recompile alloc.c with a value of PURESIZE twice as large.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2508 (See puresize.h.) You might as well save the old alloc.o.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2509 4) Remake emacs. It should work now.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2510 5) Running emacs, do Meta-x byte-compile-file repeatedly
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2511 to recreate all the .elc files that used to exist.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2512 You may need to increase the value of the variable
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2513 max-lisp-eval-depth to succeed in running the compiler interpreted
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2514 on certain .el files. 400 was sufficient as of last report.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2515 6) Reinstall the old alloc.o (undoing changes to alloc.c if any)
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2516 and remake temacs.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2517 7) Remake emacs. It should work now, with valid .elc files.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2518
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2519 *** temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted".
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2520
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2521 This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2522 files during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2523 space than was allocated.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2524
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2525 This could be caused by
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2526 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2527 2) adding more preloaded files in loadup.el
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2528 3) having a site-init.el or site-load.el which loads files.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2529 Note that ANY site-init.el or site-load.el is nonstandard;
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2530 if you have received Emacs from some other site
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2531 and it contains a site-init.el or site-load.el file, consider
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2532 deleting that file.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
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2533 4) getting the wrong .el or .elc files
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2534 (not from the directory you expected).
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2535 5) deleting some .elc files that are supposed to exist.
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2536 This would cause the source files (.el files) to be
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2537 loaded instead. They take up more room, so you lose.
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2538 6) a bug in the Emacs distribution which underestimates
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2539 the space required.
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2540
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2541 If the need for more space is legitimate, change the definition
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2542 of PURESIZE in puresize.h.
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2543
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2544 But in some of the cases listed above, this problem is a consequence
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2545 of something else that is wrong. Be sure to check and fix the real
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2546 problem.
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2547
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2548 *** Linux: Emacs crashes when dumping itself on Mac PPC running Yellow Dog GNU/Linux.
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2549
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2550 The crashes happen inside the function Fmake_symbol; here's a typical
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2551 C backtrace printed by GDB:
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2552
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2553 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol ()
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2554 (gdb) where
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2555 #0 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol ()
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2556 #1 0x1942ca4 in init_obarray ()
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2557 #2 0x18b3500 in main ()
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2558 #3 0x114371c in __libc_start_main (argc=5, argv=0x7ffff5b4, envp=0x7ffff5cc,
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2559
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2560 This could happen because GCC version 2.95 and later changed the base
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2561 of the load address to 0x10000000. Emacs needs to be told about this,
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2562 but we currently cannot do that automatically, because that breaks
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2563 other versions of GNU/Linux on the MacPPC. Until we find a way to
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2564 distinguish between the Yellow Dog and the other varieties of
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2565 GNU/Linux systems on the PPC, you will have to manually uncomment the
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2566 following section near the end of the file src/m/macppc.h in the Emacs
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2567 distribution:
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2568
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2569 #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux except for Yellowdog,
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2570 even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we
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2571 know what's really going on here. */
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2572 /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to
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2573 0x10000000. */
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2574 #if defined __linux__
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2575 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95)
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2576 #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000
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2577 #endif
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2578 #endif
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2579 #endif /* 0 */
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2580
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2581 Remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives which surround this, save
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2582 the file, and then reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. The dumping process
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2583 should now succeed.
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2584
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2585 ** Installation
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2586
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2587 *** Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'.
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2588
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2589 You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package
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2590 supplies the `install-info' command.
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2591
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2592 ** First execution
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2593
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2594 *** Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run.
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2595
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2596 This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted
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2597 via NFS, for some combinations of NFS client and NFS server.
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2598 Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of
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2599 binary null characters, and the `file' utility says:
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2600
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2601 emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators
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2602
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2603 We don't know what exactly causes this failure. A work-around is to
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2604 build Emacs in a directory on a local disk.
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2605
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2606 *** The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data.
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2607
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2608 Two causes have been seen for such problems.
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2609
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2610 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined
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2611 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong,
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2612 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct
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2613 value in the man page for a.out (5).
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2614
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2615 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the
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2616 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most
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2617 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and
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2618 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you
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2619 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file.
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2620
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2621 * Emacs 19 problems
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2622
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2623 ** Error messages `Wrong number of arguments: #<subr where-is-internal>, 5'.
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2624
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2625 This typically results from having the powerkey library loaded.
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2626 Powerkey was designed for Emacs 19.22. It is obsolete now because
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2627 Emacs 19 now has this feature built in; and powerkey also calls
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2628 where-is-internal in an obsolete way.
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2629
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2630 So the fix is to arrange not to load powerkey.
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2631
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2632 * Runtime problems on legacy systems
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2633
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2634 This section covers bugs reported on very old hardware or software.
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2635 If you are using hardware and an operating system shipped after 2000,
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2636 it is unlikely you will see any of these.
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2637
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2638 ** Ancient operating systems
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2639
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2640 AIX 4.2 was end-of-lifed on Dec 31st, 1999.
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2641
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2642 *** AIX: You get this compiler error message:
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2643
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2644 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h
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2645 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found.
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2646
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2647 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d
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2648 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install
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2649 X11Dev... with smit.
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2650
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2651 (This report must be ancient. Bootable tapes are long dead.)
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2652
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2653 *** AIX 3.2.4: Releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down.
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2654
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2655 Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is
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2656 ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can
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2657 lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are
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2658 treated as control characters.
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2659
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2660 You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and
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2661 releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys.
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2662
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2663 *** AIX 3.2.5: You get this message when running Emacs:
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2664
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2665 Could not load program emacs
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2666 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined
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parents: 56754
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2667 Error was: Exec format error
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2668
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parents: 56754
diff changeset
2669 or this one:
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diff changeset
2670
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
2671 Could not load program .emacs
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
2672 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined
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2673 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined
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2674 Error was: Exec format error
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parents: 56754
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2675
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parents: 56754
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2676 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was
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2677 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
2678
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parents: 56754
diff changeset
2679 *** AIX 4.2: Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
2680
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parents: 56754
diff changeset
2681 If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c
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parents: 56754
diff changeset
2682 without optimization; that should avoid the problem.
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2683
56734
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2684 *** ISC Unix
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2685
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2686 **** ISC: display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems.
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parents: 56645
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2687
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2688 Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2689 versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2690 cells. Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2691 This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2692 processes die, in particular pcnfsd.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2693
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2694 Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have
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diff changeset
2695 the same problem. Display-time seems to be far the worst.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2696
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diff changeset
2697 The only known fix: Don't run display-time.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2698
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2699 *** SunOS
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2700
56914
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2701 SunOS 4.1.4 stopped shipping on Sep 30 1998.
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2702
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2703 **** SunOS: You get linker errors
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2704 ld: Undefined symbol
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2705 _get_wmShellWidgetClass
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diff changeset
2706 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
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2707
56734
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2708 **** Sun 4.0.x: M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1".
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2709
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2710 This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos
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2711 version 4.0.x. The only fix was to reboot the machine.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2712
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2713 **** SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3: Mail is lost when sent to local aliases.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2714
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2715 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2716 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2717 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually)
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2718 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2719 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2720 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2721 obtain the destination address.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2722
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2723 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2724 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2725 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2726 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2727 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2728 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2729 of this writing, these official versions are available:
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2730
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2731 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail:
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2732 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation)
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2733 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files)
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2734 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs)
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2735 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript)
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2736
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2737 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub:
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2738 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2739
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2740 **** Sunos 4: You get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2741
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2742 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2743 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2744 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2745
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2746 **** SunOS 4.1.3: Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2747
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2748 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4'
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2749 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2750 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2751 it can do perfectly well for SunOS).
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2752
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2753 **** Sunos 4.1.3: Emacs gets hung shortly after startup.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2754
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2755 We think this is due to a bug in Sunos. The word is that
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2756 one of these Sunos patches fixes the bug:
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2757
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diff changeset
2758 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03 101080-01
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diff changeset
2759 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10 101134-01
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
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diff changeset
2760 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02 101070-01 101145-01
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diff changeset
2761 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2762 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
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diff changeset
2763
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2764 We don't know which of these patches really matter. If you find out
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2765 which ones, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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diff changeset
2766
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diff changeset
2767 **** SunOS 4: Emacs processes keep going after you kill the X server
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2768 (or log out, if you logged in using X).
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
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2769
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2770 Someone reported that recompiling with GCC 2.7.0 fixed this problem.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
2771
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diff changeset
2772 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
2773 or link libXmu statically.
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diff changeset
2774
56914
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2775 **** Sunos 5.3: Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
2776
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
2777 A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs
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parents: 56754
diff changeset
2778 exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only
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parents: 56754
diff changeset
2779 applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses
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parents: 56754
diff changeset
2780 communicating through pipes.
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2781
56734
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2782 *** Apollo Domain
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diff changeset
2783
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2784 **** Shell mode ignores interrupts on Apollo Domain.
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diff changeset
2785
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diff changeset
2786 You may find that M-x shell prints the following message:
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2787
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diff changeset
2788 Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell...
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2789
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diff changeset
2790 This can happen if there are not enough ptys on your system.
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diff changeset
2791 Here is how to make more of them.
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diff changeset
2792
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diff changeset
2793 % cd /dev
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diff changeset
2794 % ls pty*
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2795 # shows how many pty's you have. I had 8, named pty0 to pty7)
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2796 % /etc/crpty 8
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2797 # creates eight new pty's
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2798
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2799 *** Irix
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2800
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2801 *** Irix 6.2: No visible display on mips-sgi-irix6.2 when compiling with GCC 2.8.1.
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2802
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2803 This problem went away after installing the latest IRIX patches
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2804 as of 8 Dec 1998.
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2805
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2806 The same problem has been reported on Irix 6.3.
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2807
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2808 *** Irix 6.3: substituting environment variables in file names
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2809 in the minibuffer gives peculiar error messages such as
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2810
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2811 Substituting nonexistent environment variable ""
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2812
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2813 This is not an Emacs bug; it is caused by something in SGI patch
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2814 003082 August 11, 1998.
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2815
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2816 *** OPENSTEP
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2817
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2818 **** OPENSTEP 4.2: Compiling syntax.c with gcc 2.7.2.1 fails.
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2819
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2820 The compiler was reported to crash while compiling syntax.c with the
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2821 following message:
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2822
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2823 cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11
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2824
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2825 To work around this, replace the macros UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD,
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2826 INC_BOTH, and INC_FROM with functions. To this end, first define 3
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2827 functions, one each for every macro. Here's an example:
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2828
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2829 static int update_syntax_table_forward(int from)
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2830 {
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2831 return(UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD(from));
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2832 }/*update_syntax_table_forward*/
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2833
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2834 Then replace all references to UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD in syntax.c
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2835 with a call to the function update_syntax_table_forward.
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2836
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2837 *** Solaris 2.x
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2838
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2839 **** Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun.
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2840
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2841 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of
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2842 editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such
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2843 as GCC.
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2844
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2845 **** On Solaris, Emacs dumps core if lisp-complete-symbol is called.
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2846
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2847 If you compile Emacs with the -fast or -xO4 option with version 3.0.2
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2848 of the Sun C compiler, Emacs dumps core when lisp-complete-symbol is
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2849 called. The problem does not happen if you compile with GCC.
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2850
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2851 **** On Solaris, Emacs crashes if you use (display-time).
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2852
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2853 This can happen if you configure Emacs without specifying the precise
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2854 version of Solaris that you are using.
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2855
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2856 **** Solaris 2.3 and 2.4: Unpredictable segmentation faults.
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2857
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2858 A user reported that this happened in 19.29 when it was compiled with
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2859 the Sun compiler, but not when he recompiled with GCC 2.7.0.
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2860
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2861 We do not know whether something in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
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2862
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2863 **** Solaris 2.4: Emacs dumps core on startup.
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2864
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2865 Bill Sebok says that the cause of this is Solaris 2.4 vendor patch
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2866 102303-05, which extends the Solaris linker to deal with the Solaris
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2867 Common Desktop Environment's linking needs. You can fix the problem
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2868 by removing this patch and installing patch 102049-02 instead.
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2869 However, that linker version won't work with CDE.
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2870
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2871 Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug. It is reported that if
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2872 you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed.
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2873 We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know
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2874 for certain.
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2875
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2876 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
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2877 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
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2878 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
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2879
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2880 (One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together
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2881 with patches 102980-04, 103279-01, 103300-02, and 103468-01.)
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2882
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2883 If you can determine which patch does fix the bug, please tell
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2884 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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2885
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2886 Meanwhile, the GNU linker links Emacs properly on both Solaris 2.4 and
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2887 Solaris 2.5.
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2888
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2889 **** Solaris 2.4: Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs
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2890 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie.
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2891
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2892 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so
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2893 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines
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2894
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2895 #if ThreadedX
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2896 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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2897 #endif
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2898
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2899 to:
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2900
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2901 #if OSMinorVersion < 4
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2902 #if ThreadedX
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2903 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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2904 #endif
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2905 #endif
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2906
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2907 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4
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2908 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for
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2909 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under
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2910 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the
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2911 definition for your type of machine and system.
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2912
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2913 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild
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2914 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on
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2915 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3.
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2916
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2917 For multithreaded X to work it is necessary to install patch
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2918 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need
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2919 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that
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2920 patch.
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2921
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2922 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution:
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2923 he changed
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2924 #define ThreadedX YES
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2925 to
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2926 #define ThreadedX NO
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2927 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all
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2928 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and
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2929 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work.
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2930
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2931 **** Solaris 2.x: GCC complains "64 bit integer types not supported".
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2932
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2933 This suggests that GCC is not installed correctly. Most likely you
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parents: 56645
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2934 are using GCC 2.7.2.3 (or earlier) on Solaris 2.6 (or later); this
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2935 does not work without patching. To run GCC 2.7.2.3 on Solaris 2.6 or
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2936 later, you must patch fixinc.svr4 and reinstall GCC from scratch as
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2937 described in the Solaris FAQ
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2938 <http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html>. A better fix is
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2939 to upgrade to GCC 2.8.1 or later.
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parents: 56645
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2940
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2941 **** Solaris 2.7: Building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
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parents: 56645
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2942 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
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2943 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
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parents: 56645
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2944 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
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parents: 56645
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2945 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
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parents: 56645
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2946 and the default CFLAGS.
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2947
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parents: 56645
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2948 **** Solaris 2.x: Emacs dumps core when built with Motif.
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parents: 56645
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2949
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parents: 56645
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2950 The Solaris Motif libraries are buggy, at least up through Solaris 2.5.1.
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2951 Install the current Motif runtime library patch appropriate for your host.
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2952 (Make sure the patch is current; some older patch versions still have the bug.)
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2953 You should install the other patches recommended by Sun for your host, too.
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2954 You can obtain Sun patches from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/;
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2955 look for files with names ending in `.PatchReport' to see which patches
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2956 are currently recommended for your host.
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2957
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2958 On Solaris 2.6, Emacs is said to work with Motif when Solaris patch
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2959 105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed.
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2960 105284-18 might fix it again.
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2961
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parents: 56754
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2962 **** Solaris 2.6 and 7: the Compose key does not work.
56734
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2963
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parents: 56645
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2964 This is a bug in Motif in Solaris. Supposedly it has been fixed for
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2965 the next major release of Solaris. However, if someone with Sun
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2966 support complains to Sun about the bug, they may release a patch.
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2967 If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711.
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2968
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parents: 56645
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2969 One workaround is to use a locale that allows non-ASCII characters.
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parents: 56645
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2970 For example, before invoking emacs, set the LC_ALL environment
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2971 variable to "en_US" (American English). The directory /usr/lib/locale
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parents: 56645
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2972 lists the supported locales; any locale other than "C" or "POSIX"
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parents: 56645
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2973 should do.
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2974
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2975 pen@lysator.liu.se says (Feb 1998) that the Compose key does work
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parents: 56645
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2976 if you link with the MIT X11 libraries instead of the Solaris X11
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parents: 56645
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2977 libraries.
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2978
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parents: 56754
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2979 *** HP/UX versions before 11.0
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2980
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aac0a33f5772 Change release version from 21.4 to 22.1 throughout.
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
parents: 58825
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2981 HP/UX 9 was end-of-lifed in December 1998.
56914
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2982 HP/UX 10 was end-of-lifed in May 1999.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
2983
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
2984 **** HP/UX 9: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV after you delete a frame.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2985
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2986 We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2987 the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2988 does not happen.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2989
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2990 *** HP/UX 10: Large file support is disabled.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2991
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parents: 56754
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2992 See the comments in src/s/hpux10.h.
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2993
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2994 *** HP/UX: Emacs is slow using X11R5.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2995
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2996 This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2997 doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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2998 because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a,
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
2999 libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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3000 those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3001 install them and rebuild Emacs.
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
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3002
56734
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3003 *** Ultrix and Digital Unix
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parents: 56645
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3004
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parents: 56645
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3005 **** Ultrix 4.2: `make install' fails on install-doc with `Error 141'.
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parents: 56645
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3006
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3007 This happens on Ultrix 4.2 due to failure of a pipeline of tar
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parents: 56645
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3008 commands. We don't know why they fail, but the bug seems not to be in
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3009 Emacs. The workaround is to run the shell command in install-doc by
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3010 hand.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3011
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3012 **** Digital Unix 4.0: Garbled display on non-X terminals when Emacs runs.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3013
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3014 So far it appears that running `tset' triggers this problem (when TERM
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3015 is vt100, at least). If you do not run `tset', then Emacs displays
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3016 properly. If someone can tell us precisely which effect of running
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3017 `tset' actually causes the problem, we may be able to implement a fix
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3018 in Emacs.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3019
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3020 **** Ultrix: `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped Emacs on.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3021
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3022 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3023 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3024 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3025 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3026
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3027 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3028 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3029
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3030 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3031 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3032 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3033 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host.
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parents: 56645
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3034
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3035 *** SVr4
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3036
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3037 **** SVr4: On some variants of SVR4, Emacs does not work at all with X.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3038
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3039 Try defining BROKEN_FIONREAD in your config.h file. If this solves
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3040 the problem, please send a bug report to tell us this is needed; be
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3041 sure to say exactly what type of machine and system you are using.
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3042
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3043 **** SVr4: After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3044
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3045 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3046 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3047 the first time, and then crash when run a second time.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3048
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3049 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time,
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3050 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3051 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3052 configure script) that reads:
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3053 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC
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parents: 56645
diff changeset
3054 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3055 the kernel bug.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3056
56914
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3057 *** Irix 5 and earlier
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3058
59996
aac0a33f5772 Change release version from 21.4 to 22.1 throughout.
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk>
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3059 Exactly when Irix-5 end-of-lifed is obscure. But since Irix 6.0
56914
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3060 shipped in 1994, it has been some years.
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3061
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3062 **** Irix 5.2: unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h.
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3063
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3064 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the
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3065 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset
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3066 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy
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3067 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of
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3068 syms.h.
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3069
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3070 **** Irix 5.3: "out of virtual swap space".
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3071
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3072 This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too
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3073 many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more
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3074 swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You
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3075 can check the current status of the swap space by executing the
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3076 command `swap -l'.
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3077
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3078 You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a
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3079 line like this:
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3080
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3081 /usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0
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3082
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3083 where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance
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3084 by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of
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3085 that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the
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3086 new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further
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3087 information.
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3088
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3089 The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be
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3090 swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users
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3091 on the network that can log on to the host.
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3092
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3093 If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute
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3094 the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable
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3095 some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM
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3096 icons.
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3097
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3098 You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin'
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3099 FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35
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3100 ("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at
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3101 ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/.
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3102
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3103 **** Irix 5.3: Emacs crashes in utmpname.
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3104
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3105 This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3.
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3106 It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up.
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3107
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3108 **** Irix 6.0: Make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi.
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3109
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3110 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o"
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3111 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run,
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3112 find that string, and take out the spaces.
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3113
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3114 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem.
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3115
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3116 *** SCO Unix and UnixWare
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3117
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3118 **** SCO 3.2v4: Unusable default font.
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3119
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3120 The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings
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3121 that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such
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3122 fonts, so it does not work.
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3123
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3124 This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is
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3125 the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal
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3126 emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources
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3127 that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these
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3128 resources affect Emacs also:
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3129
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3130 *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-*
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3131 *Background: scoBackground
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3132 *Foreground: scoForeground
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3133
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3134 The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for
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3135 Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents:
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3136
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3137 Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
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3138 Emacs*Background: white
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3139 Emacs*Foreground: black
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3140
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3141 (These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to
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3142 suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server
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3143 starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop
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3144 environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell
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3145 as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the
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3146 /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs,
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3147 but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the
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3148 Open Desktop display.
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3149
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3150 These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO
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3151 machines; you must create the file on each machine individually.
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3152
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3153 **** SCO 4.2.0: Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems.
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3154
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3155 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
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3156 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
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3157 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick
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3158 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with
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3159 GCC.
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3160
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3161 **** UnixWare 2.1: Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs.
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3162
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3163 Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed
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3164 virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during
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3165 the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That
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3166 error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been
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3167 exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual
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3168 memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs.
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3169
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3170 You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh).
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3171 But you have to be root to do it.
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3172
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3173 According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel:
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3174
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3175 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit
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3176 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard "
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3177 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit
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3178 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard "
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3179 # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B
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3180
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3181 (He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.)
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3182 These changes take effect when you reboot.
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3183
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3184 *** Linux 1.x
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3185
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3186 **** Linux 1.0-1.04: Typing C-c C-c in Shell mode kills your X server.
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3187
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3188 This happens with Linux kernel 1.0 thru 1.04, approximately. The workaround is
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3189 to define SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS in config.h and recompile Emacs.
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3190 Newer Linux kernel versions don't have this problem.
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3191
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3192 **** Linux 1.3: Output from subprocess (such as man or diff) is randomly
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3193 truncated on GNU/Linux systems.
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3194
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3195 This is due to a kernel bug which seems to be fixed in Linux version
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3196 1.3.75.
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3197
56914
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3198 ** Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and ME
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3199
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3200 *** MS-Windows NT/95: Problems running Perl under Emacs
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3201
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3202 `perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell.
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3203 The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95).
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3204
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3205 The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to
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3206 "CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting
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3207 with the user.
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3208
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3209 On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a
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3210 pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to
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3211 communicate with the subprocess.
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3212
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3213 On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the
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3214 relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be
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3215 redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as
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3216 stdin.
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3217
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3218 A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON.
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3219
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3220 For Perl 4:
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3221
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3222 *** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993
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3223 --- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996
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3224 ***************
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3225 *** 68,74 ****
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3226 $rcfile=".perldb";
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3227 }
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3228 else {
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3229 ! $console = "con";
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3230 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
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3231 }
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3232
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3233 --- 68,74 ----
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3234 $rcfile=".perldb";
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3235 }
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3236 else {
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3237 ! $console = "";
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3238 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
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3239 }
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3240
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3241
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3242 For Perl 5:
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3243 *** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995
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3244 --- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996
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3245 ***************
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3246 *** 22,28 ****
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3247 $rcfile=".perldb";
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3248 }
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3249 elsif (-e "con") {
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3250 ! $console = "con";
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3251 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
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3252 }
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3253 else {
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3254 --- 22,28 ----
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3255 $rcfile=".perldb";
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3256 }
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3257 elsif (-e "con") {
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3258 ! $console = "";
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3259 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
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3260 }
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3261 else {
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3262
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3263 *** MS-Windows 95: Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs.
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3264
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3265 This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95.
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3266 You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6.
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3267
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3268 *** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: subprocesses do not terminate properly.
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3269
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3270 This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems
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3271 when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited
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3272 cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at
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3273 http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/.
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3274
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3275 *** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: crashes when Emacs invokes non-existent programs.
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3276
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3277 When a program you are trying to run is not found on the PATH,
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3278 Windows might respond by crashing or locking up your system. In
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3279 particular, this has been reported when trying to compile a Java
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3280 program in JDEE when javac.exe is installed, but not on the system
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3281 PATH.
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3282
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3283 ** MS-DOS
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3284
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3285 *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT, "config msdos" fails.
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3286
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3287 If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because
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3288 Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a
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3289 program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by
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3290 config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to
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3291 the front of your PATH environment variable.
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3292
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3293 *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows 95, Make fails for some targets
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3294 like make-docfile.
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3295
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3296 This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment
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3297 variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during
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3298 compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for
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3299 the explanation of how to avoid this problem.
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3300
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3301 *** Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup:
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3302
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3303 "Wrong type of argument: internal-facep, msdos-menu-active-face"
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3304
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3305 This can happen if you define an environment variable `TERM'. Emacs
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3306 on MSDOS uses an internal terminal emulator which is disabled if the
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3307 value of `TERM' is anything but the string "internal". Emacs then
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3308 works as if its terminal were a dumb glass teletype that doesn't
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3309 support faces. To work around this, arrange for `TERM' to be
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3310 undefined when Emacs runs. The best way to do that is to add an
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3311 [emacs] section to the DJGPP.ENV file which defines an empty value for
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3312 `TERM'; this way, only Emacs gets the empty value, while the rest of
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3313 your system works as before.
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3314
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3315 *** MS-DOS: Emacs crashes at startup.
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3316
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3317 Some users report that Emacs 19.29 requires dpmi memory management,
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3318 and crashes on startup if the system does not have it. We don't yet
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3319 know why this happens--perhaps these machines don't have enough real
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3320 memory, or perhaps something is wrong in Emacs or the compiler.
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3321 However, arranging to use dpmi support is a workaround.
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3322
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3323 You can find out if you have a dpmi host by running go32 without
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3324 arguments; it will tell you if it uses dpmi memory. For more
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3325 information about dpmi memory, consult the djgpp FAQ. (djgpp
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3326 is the GNU C compiler as packaged for MSDOS.)
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3327
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3328 Compiling Emacs under MSDOS is extremely sensitive for proper memory
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3329 configuration. If you experience problems during compilation, consider
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3330 removing some or all memory resident programs (notably disk caches)
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3331 and make sure that your memory managers are properly configured. See
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3332 the djgpp faq for configuration hints.
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3333
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3334 *** Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files
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3335 in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any
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3336 drive, e.g. `c:/dev'.
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3337
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3338 This is an unfortunate side-effect of the support for Unix-style
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3339 device names such as /dev/null in the DJGPP runtime library. A
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3340 work-around is to rename the problem directory to another name.
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3341
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3342 *** MS-DOS+DJGPP: Problems on MS-DOG if DJGPP v2.0 is used to compile Emacs.
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3343
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3344 There are two DJGPP library bugs which cause problems:
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3345
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3346 * Running `shell-command' (or `compile', or `grep') you get
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3347 `Searching for program: permission denied (EACCES), c:/command.com';
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3348 * After you shell to DOS, Ctrl-Break kills Emacs.
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3349
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3350 To work around these bugs, you can use two files in the msdos
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3351 subdirectory: `is_exec.c' and `sigaction.c'. Compile them and link
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3352 them into the Emacs executable `temacs'; then they will replace the
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3353 incorrect library functions.
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3354
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3355 *** MS-DOS: Emacs compiled for MSDOS cannot find some Lisp files, or other
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3356 run-time support files, when long filename support is enabled.
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3357
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3358 Usually, this problem will manifest itself when Emacs exits
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3359 immediately after flashing the startup screen, because it cannot find
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3360 the Lisp files it needs to load at startup. Redirect Emacs stdout
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3361 and stderr to a file to see the error message printed by Emacs.
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3362
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3363 Another manifestation of this problem is that Emacs is unable to load
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3364 the support for editing program sources in languages such as C and
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3365 Lisp.
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3366
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3367 This can happen if the Emacs distribution was unzipped without LFN
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3368 support, thus causing long filenames to be truncated to the first 6
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3369 characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it.
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3370 You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long
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3371 filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program
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3372 compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL
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3373 explains this issue in more detail.
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3374
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3375 Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for
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3376 MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported
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3377 by this version of Emacs, but the distribution was unpacked by an
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3378 unzip program that preserved the long file names instead of truncating
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3379 them to DOS 8+3 limits. To be useful on NT, the MSDOS port of Emacs
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3380 must be unzipped by a DOS utility, so that long file names are
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3381 properly truncated.
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3382
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3383 ** Archaic window managers and toolkits
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3384
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3385 *** OpenLook: Under OpenLook, the Emacs window disappears when you type M-q.
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3386
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3387 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit
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3388 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use
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3389 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window
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3390 manager to use some other command. You can disable the
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3391 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults:
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3392
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3393 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False
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3394
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3395 **** twm: A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm.
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3396
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3397 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions.
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3398 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file:
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3399
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3400 UsePPosition "on" #allow clients to request a position
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3401
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3402 ** Bugs related to old DEC hardware
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3403
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3404 *** The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key.
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3405
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3406 This shell command should fix it:
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3407
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3408 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L'
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3409
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3410 *** Keyboard input gets confused after a beep when using a DECserver
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3411 as a concentrator.
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3412
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3413 This problem seems to be a matter of configuring the DECserver to use
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3414 7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters.
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3415
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3416 * Build problems on legacy systems
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3417
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3418 ** BSD/386 1.0: --with-x-toolkit option configures wrong.
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3419
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3420 This problem is due to bugs in the shell in version 1.0 of BSD/386.
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3421 The workaround is to edit the configure file to use some other shell,
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3422 such as bash.
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3423
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3424 ** Digital Unix 4.0: Emacs fails to build, giving error message
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3425 Invalid dimension for the charset-ID 160
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3426
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3427 This is due to a bug or an installation problem in GCC 2.8.0.
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3428 Installing a more recent version of GCC fixes the problem.
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3429
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3430 ** Digital Unix 4.0: Failure in unexec while dumping emacs.
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3431
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3432 This problem manifests itself as an error message
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3433
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3434 unexec: Bad address, writing data section to ...
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3435
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3436 The user suspects that this happened because his X libraries
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3437 were built for an older system version,
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3438
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3439 ./configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib
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3440
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3441 made the problem go away.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
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3442
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3443 ** Sunos 4.1.1: there are errors compiling sysdep.c.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3444
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3445 If you get errors such as
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3446
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3447 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3448 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3449 "sysdep.c", line 2019: nodename undefined
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3450
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3451 This can result from defining LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It is very tricky
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3452 to use that environment variable with Emacs. The Emacs configure
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3453 script links many test programs with the system libraries; you must
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3454 make sure that the libraries available to configure are the same
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3455 ones available when you build Emacs.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3456
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3457 ** SunOS 4.1.1: You get this error message from GNU ld:
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3458
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3459 /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3460
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3461 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3462
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3463 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3464
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3465 ** Sunos 4.1: Undefined symbols when linking using --with-x-toolkit.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3466
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3467 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace,
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3468 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3469 -lXaw in the command that links temacs.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3470
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3471 This problem seems to arise only when the international language
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3472 extensions to X11R5 are installed.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3473
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3474 ** SunOS: Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun.
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3475
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3476 If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3477 `ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3478 that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries,
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3479 with a floating point option other than the default.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3480
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3481 It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3482 crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3483 However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3484 floating point option: -fsoft.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3485
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3486 ** SunOS: Undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym and/or _dlclose.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3487
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3488 If you see undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym, or _dlclose when linking
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3489 with -lX11, compile and link against the file mit/util/misc/dlsym.c in
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3490 the MIT X11R5 distribution. Alternatively, link temacs using shared
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3491 libraries with s/sunos4shr.h. (This doesn't work if you use the X
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3492 toolkit.)
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3493
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3494 If you get the additional error that the linker could not find
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3495 lib_version.o, try extracting it from X11/usr/lib/X11/libvim.a in
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3496 X11R4, then use it in the link.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3497
56914
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3498 ** SunOS4, DGUX 5.4.2: --with-x-toolkit version crashes when used with shared libraries.
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3499
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3500 On some systems, including Sunos 4 and DGUX 5.4.2 and perhaps others,
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3501 unexec doesn't work properly with the shared library for the X
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3502 toolkit. You might be able to work around this by using a nonshared
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3503 libXt.a library. The real fix is to upgrade the various versions of
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3504 unexec and/or ralloc. We think this has been fixed on Sunos 4
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3505 and Solaris in version 19.29.
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3506
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3507 ** HPUX 10.20: Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine.
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3508
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3509 This seems to be due to a GCC bug; it is fixed in GCC 2.8.1.
ce4c0cb926e3 From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56754
diff changeset
3510
56734
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3511 ** VMS: Compilation errors on VMS.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3512
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3513 You will get warnings when compiling on VMS because there are
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3514 variable names longer than 32 (or whatever it is) characters.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3515 This is not an error. Ignore it.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3516
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3517 VAX C does not support #if defined(foo). Uses of this construct
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3518 were removed, but some may have crept back in. They must be rewritten.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3519
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3520 There is a bug in the C compiler which fails to sign extend characters
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3521 in conditional expressions. The bug is:
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3522 char c = -1, d = 1;
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3523 int i;
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3524
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3525 i = d ? c : d;
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3526 The result is i == 255; the fix is to typecast the char in the
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3527 conditional expression as an (int). Known occurrences of such
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3528 constructs in Emacs have been fixed.
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3529
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3530 ** Vax C compiler bugs affecting Emacs.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3531
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3532 You may get one of these problems compiling Emacs:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3533
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3534 foo.c line nnn: compiler error: no table entry for op STASG
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3535 foo.c: fatal error in /lib/ccom
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3536
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3537 These are due to bugs in the C compiler; the code is valid C.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3538 Unfortunately, the bugs are unpredictable: the same construct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3539 may compile properly or trigger one of these bugs, depending
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3540 on what else is in the source file being compiled. Even changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3541 in header files that should not affect the file being compiled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3542 can affect whether the bug happens. In addition, sometimes files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3543 that compile correctly on one machine get this bug on another machine.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3544
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3545 As a result, it is hard for me to make sure this bug will not affect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3546 you. I have attempted to find and alter these constructs, but more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3547 can always appear. However, I can tell you how to deal with it if it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3548 should happen. The bug comes from having an indexed reference to an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3549 array of Lisp_Objects, as an argument in a function call:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3550 Lisp_Object *args;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3551 ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3552 ... foo (5, args[i], ...)...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3553 putting the argument into a temporary variable first, as in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3554 Lisp_Object *args;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3555 Lisp_Object tem;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3556 ...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3557 tem = args[i];
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3558 ... foo (r, tem, ...)...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3559 causes the problem to go away.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3560 The `contents' field of a Lisp vector is an array of Lisp_Objects,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3561 so you may see the problem happening with indexed references to that.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3562
56734
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3563 ** 68000 C compiler problems
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3564
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3565 Various 68000 compilers have different problems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3566 These are some that have been observed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3567
56734
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3568 *** Using value of assignment expression on union type loses.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3569 This means that x = y = z; or foo (x = z); does not work
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3570 if x is of type Lisp_Object.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3571
56734
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3572 *** "cannot reclaim" error.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3573
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3574 This means that an expression is too complicated. You get the correct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3575 line number in the error message. The code must be rewritten with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3576 simpler expressions.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3577
56734
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3578 *** XCONS, XSTRING, etc macros produce incorrect code.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3579
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3580 If temacs fails to run at all, this may be the cause.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3581 Compile this test program and look at the assembler code:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3582
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3583 struct foo { char x; unsigned int y : 24; };
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3584
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3585 lose (arg)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3586 struct foo arg;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3587 {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3588 test ((int *) arg.y);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3589 }
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3590
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3591 If the code is incorrect, your compiler has this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3592 In the XCONS, etc., macros in lisp.h you must replace (a).u.val with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3593 ((a).u.val + coercedummy) where coercedummy is declared as int.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3594
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3595 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3596 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE. That is the recommended setting now.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3597
56734
01528b0a38df Massively rearranged by category, to make environment
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
parents: 56645
diff changeset
3598 *** C compilers lose on returning unions.
25853
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3599
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3600 I hear that some C compilers cannot handle returning a union type.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3601 Most of the functions in GNU Emacs return type Lisp_Object, which is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3602 defined as a union on some rare architectures.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3603
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3604 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
3605 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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3606
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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3607
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Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
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3608 Copyright 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
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Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
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3609 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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3610
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Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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3611 Copying and redistribution of this file with or without modification
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Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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3612 are permitted without royalty provided this notice is preserved.
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Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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3613
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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3614 Local variables:
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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3615 mode: outline
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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3616 paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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3617 end:
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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
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3618
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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
parents: 52010
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3619 arch-tag: 49fc0d95-88cb-4715-b21c-f27fb5a4764a