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Say that the problems with cpp 2.9x aren't pertinent to NTEmacs.
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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.
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4 * Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory.
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6 This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one
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7 of the GCC snapshots around Oct 2000 and later, or from a released
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8 version of GCC newer than 2.95.2. The preprocessor in those versions
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9 expands ".." into ". .", which breaks relative file names that
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10 reference the parent directory.
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12 The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the
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13 `-traditional' option. (The `configure' script should do that
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14 automatically with Emacs 21 and later.)
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16 Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of
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17 Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefile's.
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19 * Building the Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory.
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21 The error message might be something like this:
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23 Converting d:/emacs-21.1/leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit to quail-package...
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24 Invalid ENCODE: value in TIT dictionary
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25 NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code
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26 '0xffffffff'
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27 Stop.
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29 This can happen if the Leim distribution is unpacked with a program
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30 which converts the `*.tit' files to DOS-style CR-LF text format. The
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31 `*.tit' files in the leim/CXTERM-DIC directory require Unix-style line
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32 endings to compile properly, because Emacs reads them without any code
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33 or EOL conversions.
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34
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35 The solution is to make sure the program used to unpack Leim does not
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36 change the files' line endings behind your back. The GNU FTP site has
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37 in the `/gnu/emacs/windows' directory a program called `djtarnt.exe'
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38 which can be used to unpack `.tar.gz' and `.zip' archives without
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39 mangling them.
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41 * `put-image' and `insert-image' don't work with JPEG images
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43 This can happen if Emacs is built with jpeg-6a library. Upgrading to
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44 jpeg-6b reportedly solves the problem.
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46 * When using Xaw3d scroll bars without arrows, the very first mouse
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47 click in a scroll bar might be ignored by the scroll bar widget. This
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48 is probably a bug in Xaw3d; when Xaw3d is compiled with arrows, the
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49 problem disappears.
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51 * Clicking C-mouse-2 in the scroll bar doesn't split the window.
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53 This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know
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54 a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured
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55 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work.
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57 * Problems in Emacs built with LessTif.
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59 The problems seem to depend on the version of LessTif and the Motif
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60 emulation for which it is set up.
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62 To the best of our knowledge, only the Motif 1.2 emulation seemed to
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63 be stable enough in LessTif. Lesstif 0.92-17's Motif 1.2 emulation
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64 seems to work okay on FreeBSD. On GNU/Linux systems, lesstif-0.92.6
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65 configured with "./configure --enable-build-12 --enable-default-12" is
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66 reported to be the most successful. By contrast,
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67 lesstif-0.92.0-1.i386.rpm was reported to have problems with menu
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68 placement, and should probably be avoided.
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70 On some systems, even with Motif 1.2 emulation, Emacs occasionally
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71 locks up, grabbing all mouse and keyboard events. The mouse still
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72 moves, but will not go outside of the Emacs window (so you can't get
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73 it over the frame title barm, for instance). None of the menus are
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74 responsive. In addition, the keyboard will not respond. Keypresses
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75 are totally ignored, including Ctrl-Alt-F1 to Ctrl-Alt-F6. This means
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76 you can not even get to the virtual console.
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77
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78 We still don't know what causes these problems; they are not
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79 reproducible on some systems, notably those used by Emacs developers.
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81 * Some accented ISO-8859-1 characters or umlauts are displayed as | or _.
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83 Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with
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84 other sizes as well, your text is corrupted, probably through software
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85 that is not 8-bit clean. If the problem goes away with another font
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86 size, it's probably because some fonts pretend to be ISO-8859-1 fonts
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87 when they are really ASCII fonts. In particular the schumacher-clean
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88 fonts have this bug in some versions of X.
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90 To see what glyphs are included in a font, use `xfd', like this:
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92 xfd -fn -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
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94 If this shows only ASCII glyphs, the font is indeed the source of the
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95 problem.
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97 The solution is to remove the corresponding lines from the appropriate
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98 `fonts.alias' file, then run `mkfontdir' in that directory, and then run
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99 `xset fp rehash'.
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101 * Large file support is disabled on HP-UX. See the comments in
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102 src/s/hpux10.h.
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104 * Crashes when displaying uncompressed GIFs with version
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105 libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1.
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107 * The W3 package (either from from the CVS sources or the last
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108 release) currently (2000-12-14) doesn't run properly with Emacs 21 and
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109 needs work. This patch is reported to make w3-4.0pre.46 work:
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111 diff -aur --new-file w3-4.0pre.46-orig/lisp/w3-display.el w3-4.0pre.46-new/lisp/w3-display.el
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112 --- w3-4.0pre.46-orig/lisp/w3-display.el Sun Nov 14 22:00:12 1999
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113 +++ w3-4.0pre.46-new/lisp/w3-display.el Thu Dec 14 14:59:15 2000
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114 @@ -181,7 +181,8 @@
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115 (dispatch-event (next-command-event)))
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116 (error nil))))
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117 (t
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118 - (if (and (not (sit-for 0)) (input-pending-p))
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119 + ;; modified for GNU Emacs 21 by bob@rattlesnake.com on 2000 Dec 14
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120 + (if (and (not (sit-for 0)) nil)
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121 (condition-case ()
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122 (progn
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123 (setq w3-pause-keystroke
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124 diff -aur --new-file w3-4.0pre.46-orig/lisp/w3-e21.el w3-4.0pre.46-new/lisp/w3-e21.el
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125 --- w3-4.0pre.46-orig/lisp/w3-e21.el Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970
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126 +++ w3-4.0pre.46-new/lisp/w3-e21.el Thu Dec 14 14:54:58 2000
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127 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
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128 +;;; w3-e21.el --- ** required for GNU Emacs 21 **
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129 +;; Added by bob@rattlesnake.com on 2000 Dec 14
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131 +(require 'w3-e19)
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132 +(provide 'w3-e21)
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137 so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure
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138 Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'.
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144 --- psgml-edit.el 1999/12/17 10:55:07 1.1
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145 +++ psgml-edit.el 1999/12/17 11:36:37
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147 ; inhibit-read-only
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148 - (before-change-function nil)
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149 - (after-change-function nil))
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150 + (before-change-functions nil)
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151 + (after-change-functions nil))
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152 (setq selective-display t)
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154 (buffer-read-only nil)
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155 - (before-change-function nil)
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156 + (before-change-functions nil)
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157 (markup-index ; match-data index in tag regexp
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159 (defun sgml-expand-shortref-to-text (name)
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160 - (let (before-change-function
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161 + (let (before-change-functions
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162 (entity (sgml-lookup-entity name (sgml-dtd-entities sgml-dtd-info))))
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164 (re-found nil)
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165 - before-change-function)
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166 + before-change-functions)
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167 (goto-char sgml-markup-start)
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169 (goto-char (sgml-element-end element))
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170 - (let ((before-change-function nil))
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171 + (let ((before-change-functions nil))
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172 (sgml-normalize-content element only-one)))
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173 --- psgml-other.el 1999/12/17 10:40:02 1.1
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174 +++ psgml-other.el 1999/12/17 11:30:43
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176 (require 'easymenu)
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177 +(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
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180 (let ((submenu
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181 - (subseq entries 0 (min (length entries)
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182 - sgml-max-menu-size))))
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183 +;;; (subseq entries 0 (min (length entries)
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184 +;;; sgml-max-menu-size))
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185 + (let ((new (copy-sequence entries)))
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186 + (setcdr (nthcdr (1- (min (length entries)
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187 + sgml-max-menu-size))
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188 + new) nil)
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189 + new)))
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190 (setq entries (nthcdr sgml-max-menu-size entries))
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191 @@ -113,7 +119,10 @@
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192 (let ((inhibit-read-only t)
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193 - (after-change-function nil) ; obsolete variable
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194 - (before-change-function nil) ; obsolete variable
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195 (after-change-functions nil)
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196 - (before-change-functions nil))
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197 - (put-text-property start end 'face face)))
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198 + (before-change-functions nil)
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199 + (modified (buffer-modified-p))
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200 + (buffer-undo-list t)
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201 + deactivate-mark)
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202 + (put-text-property start end 'face face)
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203 + (when (and (not modified) (buffer-modified-p))
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204 + (set-buffer-modified-p nil))))
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205 (t
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206 --- psgml-parse.el 1999/12/17 10:32:45 1.1
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207 +++ psgml-parse.el 2000/12/05 17:12:34
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210 +(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
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211 +
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214 (setq sgml-scratch-buffer nil))
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215 - (when after-change-function ;***
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216 - (message "OOPS: after-change-function not NIL in scratch buffer %s: %s"
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217 + (when after-change-functions ;***
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218 + (message "OOPS: after-change-functions not NIL in scratch buffer %s: %S"
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219 (current-buffer)
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220 - after-change-function)
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221 - (setq before-change-function nil
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222 - after-change-function nil))
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223 + after-change-functions)
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224 + (setq before-change-functions nil
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225 + after-change-functions nil))
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226 (setq sgml-last-entity-buffer (current-buffer))
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228 "Set initial state of parsing"
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229 - (make-local-variable 'before-change-function)
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230 - (setq before-change-function 'sgml-note-change-at)
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231 - (make-local-variable 'after-change-function)
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232 - (setq after-change-function 'sgml-set-face-after-change)
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233 + (set (make-local-variable 'before-change-functions) '(sgml-note-change-at))
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234 + (set (make-local-variable 'after-change-functions)
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235 + '(sgml-set-face-after-change))
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236 (sgml-set-active-dtd-indicator (sgml-dtd-doctype dtd))
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239 - (unless before-change-function
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240 - (message "WARN: before-change-function has been lost, restoring (%s)"
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241 + (unless before-change-functions
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242 + (message "WARN: before-change-functions has been lost, restoring (%s)"
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243 (current-buffer))
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244 - (setq before-change-function 'sgml-note-change-at)
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245 - (setq after-change-function 'sgml-set-face-after-change)
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246 + (setq before-change-functions '(sgml-note-change-at))
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247 + (setq after-change-functions '(sgml-set-face-after-change))
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248 )
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250 * The Calc package fails to build and signals errors with Emacs 21.
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252 Apply the following patches which reportedly fix several problems:
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253
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254 --- calc-ext.el.~1~ Sun Apr 3 02:26:34 1994
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255 +++ calc-ext.el Wed Sep 18 17:35:01 1996
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257 (calc-fancy-prefix 'calc-inverse-flag "Inverse..." n)
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258 )
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260 +(defconst calc-fancy-prefix-map
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261 + (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
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262 + (define-key map [t] 'calc-fancy-prefix-other-key)
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263 + (define-key map (vector meta-prefix-char t) 'calc-fancy-prefix-other-key)
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264 + (define-key map [switch-frame] nil)
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265 + (define-key map [?\C-u] 'universal-argument)
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266 + (define-key map [?0] 'digit-argument)
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267 + (define-key map [?1] 'digit-argument)
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268 + (define-key map [?2] 'digit-argument)
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269 + (define-key map [?3] 'digit-argument)
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270 + (define-key map [?4] 'digit-argument)
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271 + (define-key map [?5] 'digit-argument)
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272 + (define-key map [?6] 'digit-argument)
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273 + (define-key map [?7] 'digit-argument)
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274 + (define-key map [?8] 'digit-argument)
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275 + (define-key map [?9] 'digit-argument)
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276 + map)
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277 + "Keymap used while processing calc-fancy-prefix.")
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278 +
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279 (defun calc-fancy-prefix (flag msg n)
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280 (let (prefix)
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281 (calc-wrapper
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283 (message (if prefix msg "")))
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284 (and prefix
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285 (not calc-is-keypad-press)
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286 + (if (boundp 'overriding-terminal-local-map)
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287 + (setq overriding-terminal-local-map calc-fancy-prefix-map)
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288 (let ((event (calc-read-key t)))
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289 (if (eq (setq last-command-char (car event)) ?\C-u)
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290 (universal-argument)
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291 @@ -1376,9 +1397,18 @@
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292 (if (or (not (integerp last-command-char))
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293 (eq last-command-char ?-))
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294 (calc-unread-command)
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295 - (digit-argument n))))))
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296 + (digit-argument n)))))))
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297 )
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298 (setq calc-is-keypad-press nil)
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299 +
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300 +(defun calc-fancy-prefix-other-key (arg)
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301 + (interactive "P")
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302 + (if (or (not (integerp last-command-char))
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303 + (and (>= last-command-char 0) (< last-command-char ? )
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304 + (not (eq last-command-char meta-prefix-char))))
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305 + (calc-wrapper)) ; clear flags if not a Calc command.
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306 + (calc-unread-command)
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307 + (setq overriding-terminal-local-map nil))
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308
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309 (defun calc-invert-func ()
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310 (save-excursion
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311
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312 --- Makefile.~1~ Sun Dec 15 23:50:45 1996
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313 +++ Makefile Thu Nov 30 15:09:45 2000
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314 @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
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315
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316 # Other macros.
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317 EFLAGS = -batch
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318 -MAINT = -l calc-maint.elc
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319 +MAINT = -l calc-maint.el
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320
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321 # Control whether intermediate files are kept.
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322 PURGE = -rm -f
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323 @@ -154,10 +154,7 @@
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324
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325
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326 # All this because "-l calc-maint" doesn't work.
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327 -maint: calc-maint.elc
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328 -calc-maint.elc: calc-maint.el
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329 - cp calc-maint.el calc-maint.elc
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330 -
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331 +maint: calc-maint.el
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332
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333 # Create an Emacs TAGS file
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334 tags: TAGS
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335
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336 --- calc-aent.el.~1~ Sun Dec 15 23:50:36 1996
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337 +++ calc-aent.el Tue Nov 21 18:34:33 2000
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338 @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@
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339 (calc-minibuffer-contains
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340 "\\`\\([^\"]*\"[^\"]*\"\\)*[^\"]*\"[^\"]*\\'"))
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341 (insert "`")
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342 - (setq alg-exp (buffer-string))
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343 + (setq alg-exp (field-string))
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344 (and (> (length alg-exp) 0) (setq calc-previous-alg-entry alg-exp))
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345 (exit-minibuffer))
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346 )
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347 @@ -393,14 +393,14 @@
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348
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349 (defun calcAlg-enter ()
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350 (interactive)
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351 - (let* ((str (buffer-string))
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352 + (let* ((str (field-string))
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353 (exp (and (> (length str) 0)
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354 (save-excursion
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355 (set-buffer calc-buffer)
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356 (math-read-exprs str)))))
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357 (if (eq (car-safe exp) 'error)
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358 (progn
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359 - (goto-char (point-min))
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360 + (goto-char (field-beginning))
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361 (forward-char (nth 1 exp))
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362 (beep)
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363 (calc-temp-minibuffer-message
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364 @@ -455,14 +455,14 @@
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365 (interactive)
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366 (if (calc-minibuffer-contains ".*[@oh] *[^'m ]+[^'m]*\\'")
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367 (calcDigit-key)
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368 - (setq calc-digit-value (buffer-string))
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369 + (setq calc-digit-value (field-string))
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370 (exit-minibuffer))
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371 )
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372
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373 (defun calcDigit-edit ()
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374 (interactive)
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375 (calc-unread-command)
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376 - (setq calc-digit-value (buffer-string))
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377 + (setq calc-digit-value (field-string))
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378 (exit-minibuffer)
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379 )
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380
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381 --- calc.el.~1~ Sun Dec 15 23:50:47 1996
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382 +++ calc.el Wed Nov 22 13:08:49 2000
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383 @@ -2051,11 +2051,11 @@
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384 ;; Exercise for the reader: Figure out why this is a good precaution!
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385 (or (boundp 'calc-buffer)
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386 (use-local-map minibuffer-local-map))
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387 - (let ((str (buffer-string)))
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388 + (let ((str (field-string)))
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389 (setq calc-digit-value (save-excursion
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390 (set-buffer calc-buffer)
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391 (math-read-number str))))
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392 - (if (and (null calc-digit-value) (> (buffer-size) 0))
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393 + (if (and (null calc-digit-value) (> (field-end) (field-beginning)))
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394 (progn
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395 (beep)
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396 (calc-temp-minibuffer-message " [Bad format]"))
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398
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399 (defun calc-minibuffer-contains (rex)
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400 (save-excursion
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401 - (goto-char (point-min))
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402 + (goto-char (field-end (point-min)))
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403 (looking-at rex))
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404 )
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405
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407 (upcase last-command-char))))
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408 (and dig
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409 (< dig radix)))))))
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410 - (save-excursion
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411 - (goto-char (point-min))
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412 - (looking-at
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413 - "[-+]?\\(.*\\+/- *\\|.*mod *\\)?\\([0-9]+\\.?0*[@oh] *\\)?\\([0-9]+\\.?0*['m] *\\)?[0-9]*\\(\\.?[0-9]*\\(e[-+]?[0-3]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?\\)?\\|[0-9]:\\([0-9]+:\\)?[0-9]*\\)?[\"s]?\\'")))
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414 + (calc-minibuffer-contains
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415 + "[-+]?\\(.*\\+/- *\\|.*mod *\\)?\\([0-9]+\\.?0*[@oh] *\\)?\\([0-9]+\\.?0*['m] *\\)?[0-9]*\\(\\.?[0-9]*\\(e[-+]?[0-3]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?[0-9]?\\)?\\|[0-9]:\\([0-9]+:\\)?[0-9]*\\)?[\"s]?\\'"))
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416 (if (and (memq last-command-char '(?@ ?o ?h ?\' ?m))
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417 (string-match " " calc-hms-format))
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418 (insert " "))
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419 @@ -2190,7 +2188,7 @@
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420 ((eq last-command 'calcDigit-start)
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421 (erase-buffer))
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422 (t (backward-delete-char 1)))
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423 - (if (= (buffer-size) 0)
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424 + (if (= (field-beginning) (field-end))
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425 (progn
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426 (setq last-command-char 13)
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427 (calcDigit-nondigit)))
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428
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429 * TeX'ing the Calc manual fails.
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430
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431 The following patches allow to build the Calc manual using texinfo.tex
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432 from Emacs 19.34 distribution:
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433
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434 *** calc-maint.e~0 Mon Dec 16 07:11:26 1996
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435 --- calc-maint.el Sun Dec 10 14:32:38 2000
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436 ***************
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437 *** 308,314 ****
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438 (insert "@tex\n"
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439 "\\global\\advance\\appendixno2\n"
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440 "\\gdef\\xref#1.{See ``#1.''}\n")
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441 ! (setq midpos (point))
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442 (insert "@end tex\n")
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443 (insert-buffer-substring srcbuf sumpos endpos)
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444 (insert "@bye\n")
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445 --- 308,314 ----
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446 (insert "@tex\n"
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447 "\\global\\advance\\appendixno2\n"
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448 "\\gdef\\xref#1.{See ``#1.''}\n")
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449 ! (setq midpos (point-marker))
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450 (insert "@end tex\n")
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451 (insert-buffer-substring srcbuf sumpos endpos)
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452 (insert "@bye\n")
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453 *** Makefile.~0 Mon Dec 16 07:11:24 1996
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454 --- Makefile Sun Dec 10 14:44:00 2000
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455 ***************
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456 *** 98,106 ****
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457 # Format the Calc manual as one printable volume using TeX.
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458 tex:
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459 $(REMOVE) calc.aux
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460 ! $(TEX) calc.texinfo
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461 $(TEXINDEX) calc.[cfkptv]?
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462 ! $(TEX) calc.texinfo
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463 $(PURGE) calc.cp calc.fn calc.pg calc.tp calc.vr
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464 $(PURGE) calc.cps calc.fns calc.kys calc.pgs calc.tps calc.vrs
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465 $(PURGE) calc.toc
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466 --- 98,106 ----
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467 # Format the Calc manual as one printable volume using TeX.
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468 tex:
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469 $(REMOVE) calc.aux
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470 ! -$(TEX) calc.texinfo
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471 $(TEXINDEX) calc.[cfkptv]?
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472 ! -$(TEX) calc.texinfo
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473 $(PURGE) calc.cp calc.fn calc.pg calc.tp calc.vr
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474 $(PURGE) calc.cps calc.fns calc.kys calc.pgs calc.tps calc.vrs
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475 $(PURGE) calc.toc
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476 *** calc.texinfo.~1~ Thu Oct 10 18:18:56 1996
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477 --- calc.texinfo Mon Dec 11 08:25:00 2000
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478 ***************
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479 *** 12,17 ****
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480 --- 12,19 ----
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481 % Because makeinfo.c exists, we can't just define new commands.
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482 % So instead, we take over little-used existing commands.
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483 %
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484 + % Suggested by Karl Berry <karl@@freefriends.org>
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485 + \gdef\!{\mskip-\thinmuskip}
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486 % Redefine @cite{text} to act like $text$ in regular TeX.
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487 % Info will typeset this same as @samp{text}.
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488 \gdef\goodtex{\tex \let\rm\goodrm \let\t\ttfont \turnoffactive}
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489 ***************
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490 *** 23686,23692 ****
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491 a vector of the actual parameter values, written as equations:
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492 @cite{[a = 3, b = 2]}, in case you'd rather read them in a list
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493 than pick them out of the formula. (You can type @kbd{t y}
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494 ! to move this vector to the stack; @pxref{Trail Commands})
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495
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496 Specifying a different independent variable name will affect the
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497 resulting formula: @kbd{a F 1 k RET} produces @kbd{3 + 2 k}.
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498 --- 23689,23695 ----
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499 a vector of the actual parameter values, written as equations:
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500 @cite{[a = 3, b = 2]}, in case you'd rather read them in a list
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501 than pick them out of the formula. (You can type @kbd{t y}
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502 ! to move this vector to the stack; see @ref{Trail Commands}.)
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503
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504 Specifying a different independent variable name will affect the
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505 resulting formula: @kbd{a F 1 k RET} produces @kbd{3 + 2 k}.
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506
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507
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508 * On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors
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509 from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some
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510 shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support.
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511 These errors mean Emacs has been linked with a library whose shared
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512 library is not in the default search path of the dynamic linker.
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513
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514 On many systems, it is possible to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your
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515 environment to specify additional directories where shared libraries
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516 can be found.
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517
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518 Other systems allow to set LD_RUN_PATH in a similar way, but before
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519 Emacs is linked. With LD_RUN_PATH set, the linker will include a
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520 specified run-time search path in the executable.
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521
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522 Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details.
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523
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524 * On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
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525 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
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526 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C
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527 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on
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528 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler
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529 and the default CFLAGS.
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531 * On Windows 95/98/ME, subprocesses do not terminate properly.
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532
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533 This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems
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534 when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited
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535 cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at
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536 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/doc/index.html
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537
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538 * Mail sent through Microsoft Exchange in some encodings appears to be
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539 mangled and is not seen correctly in Rmail or Gnus. We don't know
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540 exactly what happens, but it isn't an Emacs problem in cases we've
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541 seen.
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542
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543 * On OSF/Dec Unix/Tru64/<whatever it is this year> under X locally or
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544 remotely, M-SPC acts as a `compose' key with strange results. See
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545 keyboard(5).
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546
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547 Changing Alt_L to Meta_L fixes it:
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548 % xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L'
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549 % xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_R = Meta_R Alt_R'
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550
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551 * Error "conflicting types for `initstate'" compiling with GCC on Irix 6.
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552
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553 Install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this problem should go away.
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554 It is possible that this problem results from upgrading the operating
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555 system without reinstalling GCC; so you could also try reinstalling
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556 the same version of GCC, and telling us whether that fixes the problem.
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557
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558 * On Solaris 7, Emacs gets a segmentation fault when starting up using X.
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559
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560 This results from Sun patch 107058-01 (SunOS 5.7: Patch for
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561 assembler) if you use GCC version 2.7 or later.
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562 To work around it, either install patch 106950-03 or later,
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563 or uninstall patch 107058-01, or install the GNU Binutils.
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564 Then recompile Emacs, and it should work.
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565
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566 * With X11R6.4, public-patch-3, Emacs crashes at startup.
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567
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568 Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem.
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569
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570 --- xc/lib/X11/imInt.c~ Wed Jun 30 13:31:56 1999
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571 +++ xc/lib/X11/imInt.c Thu Jul 1 15:10:27 1999
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572 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
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573 -/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */
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574 +/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */
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575 /******************************************************************
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576
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577 Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by FUJITSU LIMITED
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578 @@ -166,8 +166,8 @@
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579 _XimMakeImName(lcd)
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580 XLCd lcd;
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581 {
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582 - char* begin;
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583 - char* end;
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584 + char* begin = NULL;
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585 + char* end = NULL;
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586 char* ret;
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587 int i = 0;
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588 char* ximmodifier = XIMMODIFIER;
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589 @@ -182,7 +182,11 @@
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590 }
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591 ret = Xmalloc(end - begin + 2);
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592 if (ret != NULL) {
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593 - (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
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594 + if (begin != NULL) {
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595 + (void)strncpy(ret, begin, end - begin + 1);
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596 + } else {
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597 + ret[0] = '\0';
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598 + }
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599 ret[end - begin + 1] = '\0';
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600 }
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601 return ret;
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602
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603
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604 * Emacs crashes on Irix 6.5 on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC.
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605
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606 This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95.
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607
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608 * Emacs crashes in utmpname on Irix 5.3.
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609
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610 This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3.
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611 It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up.
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612
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613 * The S-C-t key combination doesn't get passed to Emacs on X.
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614
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615 This happens because some X configurations assign the Ctrl-Shift-t
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616 combination the same meaning as the Multi_key. The offending
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617 definition is in the file `...lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose'; there
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618 might be other similar combinations which are grabbed by X for similar
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619 purposes.
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620
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621 We think that this can be countermanded with the `xmodmap' utility, if
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622 you want to be able to bind one of these key sequences within Emacs.
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623
25853
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624 * On Solaris, CTRL-t is ignored by Emacs when you use
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625 the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales).
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626
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627 You can fix this by editing the file:
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628
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629 /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose
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630
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631 Near the bottom there is a line that reads:
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632
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633 Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
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634
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635 that should read:
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636
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637 Ctrl<T> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters
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638
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639 Note the lower case <t>. Changing this line should make C-t work.
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640
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641 * Emacs on Digital Unix 4.0 fails to build, giving error message
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642 Invalid dimension for the charset-ID 160
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643
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644 This is due to a bug or an installation problem in GCC 2.8.0.
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645 Installing a more recent version of GCC fixes the problem.
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646
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647 * Buffers from `with-output-to-temp-buffer' get set up in Help mode.
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648
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649 Changes in Emacs 20.4 to the hooks used by that function cause
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650 problems for some packages, specifically BBDB. See the function's
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651 documentation for the hooks involved. BBDB 2.00.06 fixes the problem.
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652
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653 * Under X, C-v and/or other keys don't work.
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654
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655 These may have been intercepted by your window manager. In
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656 particular, AfterStep 1.6 is reported to steal C-v in its default
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657 configuration. Various Meta keys are also likely to be taken by the
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658 configuration of the `feel'. See the WM's documentation for how to
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659 change this.
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660
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661 * When using Exceed, fonts sometimes appear too tall.
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662
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663 When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified
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664 (either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources)
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665 then the fonts may appear "too tall". The actual character sizes are
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666 correct but there is too much vertical spacing between rows, which
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667 gives the appearance of "double spacing".
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668
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669 To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution"
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670 feature (in the font part of the configuration window).
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671
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672 * Failure in unexec while dumping emacs on Digital Unix 4.0
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673
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674 This problem manifests itself as an error message
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675
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676 unexec: Bad address, writing data section to ...
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677
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678 The user suspects that this happened because his X libraries
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679 were built for an older system version,
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680
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681 ./configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib
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682
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683 made the problem go away.
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684
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685 * No visible display on mips-sgi-irix6.2 when compiling with GCC 2.8.1.
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686
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687 This problem went away after installing the latest IRIX patches
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688 as of 8 Dec 1998.
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689
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690 The same problem has been reported on Irix 6.3.
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691
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692 * As of version 20.4, Emacs doesn't work properly if configured for
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693 the Motif toolkit and linked against the free LessTif library. The
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694 next Emacs release is expected to work with LessTif.
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695
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696 * Emacs gives the error, Couldn't find per display information.
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697
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698 This can result if the X server runs out of memory because Emacs uses
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699 a large number of fonts. On systems where this happens, C-h h is
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700 likely to cause it.
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701
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702 We do not know of a way to prevent the problem.
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703
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704 * Emacs makes HPUX 11.0 crash.
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705
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706 This is a bug in HPUX; HPUX patch PHKL_16260 is said to fix it.
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707
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708 * Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine (HPUX 10.20).
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709
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710 This seems to be due to a GCC bug; it is fixed in GCC 2.8.1.
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711
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712 * The Hyperbole package causes *Help* buffers not to be displayed in
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713 Help mode due to setting `temp-buffer-show-hook' rather than using
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714 `add-hook'. Using `(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook
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715 'help-mode-maybe)' after loading Hyperbole should fix this.
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716
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717 * Versions of the PSGML package earlier than 1.0.3 (stable) or 1.1.2
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718 (alpha) fail to parse DTD files correctly in Emacs 20.3 and later.
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719 Here is a patch for psgml-parse.el from PSGML 1.0.1 and, probably,
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720 earlier versions.
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721
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722 --- psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:18:18 1.1
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723 +++ psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:20:00
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724 @@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ (defun sgml-push-to-entity (entity &opti
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725 (setq sgml-buffer-parse-state nil))
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726 (cond
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727 ((stringp entity) ; a file name
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728 - (save-excursion (insert-file-contents entity))
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729 + (insert-file-contents entity)
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730 (setq default-directory (file-name-directory entity)))
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731 ((consp (sgml-entity-text entity)) ; external id?
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diff changeset
732 (let* ((extid (sgml-entity-text entity))
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733
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734 * Running TeX from AUXTeX package with Emacs 20.3 gives a Lisp error
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735 about a read-only tex output buffer.
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736
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diff changeset
737 This problem appeared for AUC TeX version 9.9j and some earlier
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diff changeset
738 versions. Here is a patch for the file tex-buf.el in the AUC TeX
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739 package.
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740
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741 diff -c auctex/tex-buf.el~ auctex/tex-buf.el
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diff changeset
742 *** auctex/tex-buf.el~ Wed Jul 29 18:35:32 1998
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diff changeset
743 --- auctex/tex-buf.el Sat Sep 5 15:20:38 1998
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744 ***************
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745 *** 545,551 ****
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746 (dir (TeX-master-directory)))
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diff changeset
747 (TeX-process-check file) ; Check that no process is running
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diff changeset
748 (setq TeX-command-buffer (current-buffer))
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diff changeset
749 ! (with-output-to-temp-buffer buffer)
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750 (set-buffer buffer)
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diff changeset
751 (if dir (cd dir))
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752 (insert "Running `" name "' on `" file "' with ``" command "''\n")
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753 - --- 545,552 ----
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754 (dir (TeX-master-directory)))
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755 (TeX-process-check file) ; Check that no process is running
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756 (setq TeX-command-buffer (current-buffer))
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757 ! (let (temp-buffer-show-function temp-buffer-show-hook)
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758 ! (with-output-to-temp-buffer buffer))
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759 (set-buffer buffer)
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760 (if dir (cd dir))
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761 (insert "Running `" name "' on `" file "' with ``" command "''\n")
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762
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763 * On Irix 6.3, substituting environment variables in file names
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764 in the minibuffer gives peculiar error messages such as
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765
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766 Substituting nonexistent environment variable ""
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767
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768 This is not an Emacs bug; it is caused by something in SGI patch
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769 003082 August 11, 1998.
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770
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771 * After a while, Emacs slips into unibyte mode.
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772
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773 The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does
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774 (standard-display-european t)
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775 That should be changed to
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diff changeset
776 (standard-display-european 1 t)
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777
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778 * Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'.
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779
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780 You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package
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781 supplies the `install-info' command.
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782
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783 * Emacs does not recognize the AltGr key, on HPUX.
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784
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785 To fix this, set up a file ~/.dt/sessions/sessionetc with executable
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786 rights, containing this text:
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787
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788 --------------------------------
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789 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
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790 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
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791 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
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792 EOF
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793
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794 xmodmap - << EOF
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795 clear mod1
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796 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
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797 add mod1 = Meta_L
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798 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
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799 add mod2 = Mode_switch
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800 EOF
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801 --------------------------------
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802
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803 * Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files
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804 in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any
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805 drive, e.g. `c:/dev'.
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806
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807 This is an unfortunate side-effect of the support for Unix-style
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808 device names such as /dev/null in the DJGPP runtime library. A
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809 work-around is to rename the problem directory to another name.
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810
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811 * M-SPC seems to be ignored as input.
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812
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813 See if your X server is set up to use this as a command
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814 for character composition.
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815
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816 * Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is slow.
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817
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818 This can happen if the system is misconfigured and Emacs can't get the
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819 full qualified domain name, FQDN. You should have your FQDN in the
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820 /etc/hosts file, something like this:
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821
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822 127.0.0.1 localhost
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823 129.187.137.82 nuc04.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de nuc04
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824
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825 The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems.
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826
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827 * Garbled display on non-X terminals when Emacs runs on Digital Unix 4.0.
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828
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829 So far it appears that running `tset' triggers this problem (when TERM
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830 is vt100, at least). If you do not run `tset', then Emacs displays
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831 properly. If someone can tell us precisely which effect of running
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832 `tset' actually causes the problem, we may be able to implement a fix
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833 in Emacs.
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834
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835 * When you run Ispell from Emacs, it reports a "misalignment" error.
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836
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837 This can happen if you compiled Ispell to use ASCII characters only
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838 and then try to use it from Emacs with non-ASCII characters,
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839 specifically Latin-1. The solution is to recompile Ispell with
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840 Latin-1 support.
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841
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842 This can also happen if the version of Ispell installed on your
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843 machine is old.
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844
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845 * On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through
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846 5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault.
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847
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848 This problem happens if libc defines the symbol __malloc_initialized.
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849 One known solution is to upgrade to a newer libc version. 5.4.33 is
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850 known to work.
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851
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852 * On Windows, you cannot use the right-hand ALT key and the left-hand
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853 CTRL key together to type a Control-Meta character.
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854
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855 This is a consequence of a misfeature beyond Emacs's control.
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856
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857 Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key
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858 events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl. Since Emacs cannot
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859 distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl
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860 combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that
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861 AltGr has been pressed.
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862
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863 * Under some Windows X-servers, Emacs' display is incorrect
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864
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865 The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the
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866 screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective
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867 display or when killing a region). M-x recenter will cause the screen
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868 to be completely redisplayed and the "extra" characters will disappear.
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869
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870 This is known to occur under Exceed 6, and possibly earlier versions as
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871 well. The problem lies in the X-server settings.
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872
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873 There are reports that you can solve the problem with Exceed by
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874 running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then
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875 un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X
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876 selection".
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877
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878 Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then
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879 please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix.
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880 If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it
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881 here.
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882
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883 * On Solaris 2, Emacs dumps core when built with Motif.
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884
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885 The Solaris Motif libraries are buggy, at least up through Solaris 2.5.1.
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886 Install the current Motif runtime library patch appropriate for your host.
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887 (Make sure the patch is current; some older patch versions still have the bug.)
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888 You should install the other patches recommended by Sun for your host, too.
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889 You can obtain Sun patches from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/;
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890 look for files with names ending in `.PatchReport' to see which patches
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891 are currently recommended for your host.
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892
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893 On Solaris 2.6, Emacs is said to work with Motif when Solaris patch
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894 105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed.
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895 105284-18 might fix it again.
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896
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897 * On Solaris 2.6 and 7, the Compose key does not work.
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898
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899 This is a bug in Motif in Solaris. Supposedly it has been fixed for
a7963e66c555 Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems.
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900 the next major release of Solaris. However, if someone with Sun
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901 support complains to Sun about the bug, they may release a patch.
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902 If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711.
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903
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904 One workaround is to use a locale that allows non-ASCII characters.
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905 For example, before invoking emacs, set the LC_ALL environment
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906 variable to "en_US" (American English). The directory /usr/lib/locale
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907 lists the supported locales; any locale other than "C" or "POSIX"
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908 should do.
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909
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910 pen@lysator.liu.se says (Feb 1998) that the Compose key does work
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911 if you link with the MIT X11 libraries instead of the Solaris X11
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912 libraries.
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913
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914 * Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name.
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915
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916 You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name,
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917 either in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system
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918 calls for specifying this.
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919
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920 If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable
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921 mail-host-address to the value you want.
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922
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923 * Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs, on UnixWare 2.1
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924
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925 Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed
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926 virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during
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927 the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That
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928 error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been
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929 exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual
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930 memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs.
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931
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932 You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh).
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933 But you have to be root to do it.
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934
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935 According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel:
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936
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937 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit
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938 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard "
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939 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit
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940 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard "
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941 # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B
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942
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943 (He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.)
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944 These changes take effect when you reboot.
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945
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946 * Redisplay using X11 is much slower than previous Emacs versions.
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947
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948 We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when
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949 scroll bars are on the left. We don't know why this happens. If this
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950 happens to you, you can work around it by putting the scroll bars
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951 on the right (as they were in Emacs 19).
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952
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953 Here's how to do this:
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954
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955 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'right)
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956
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957 If you're not sure whether (or how much) this problem affects you,
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958 try that and see how much difference it makes. To set things back
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959 to normal, do
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960
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961 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'left)
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962
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963 * Under X11, some characters appear as hollow boxes.
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964
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965 Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs
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966 supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires
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967 many different fonts, collected into a fontset.
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968
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969 If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X
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970 server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes.
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971 You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts.
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972
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973 The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can
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974 display all the characters Emacs supports.
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975
35249
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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976 Another cause of this for specific characters is fonts which have a
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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977 missing glyph and no default character. This is known ot occur for
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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978 character number 160 (no-break space) in some fonts, such as Lucida
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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parents: 35152
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979 but Emacs sets the display table for the unibyte and Latin-1 version
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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980 of this character to display a space.
c112ca694609 NBSP as hollow box
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981
25853
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982 * Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines.
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983
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984 You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution.
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985
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986 * Certain fonts make each line take one pixel more than it "should".
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987
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988 This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller
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989 than the font's nominal height. Emacs needs to make sure that
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990 lines do not overlap.
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991
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992 * You request inverse video, and the first Emacs frame is in inverse
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993 video, but later frames are not in inverse video.
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994
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995 This can happen if you have an old version of the custom library in
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996 your search path for Lisp packages. Use M-x list-load-path-shadows to
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997 check whether this is true. If it is, delete the old custom library.
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998
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999 * In FreeBSD 2.1.5, useless symbolic links remain in /tmp or other
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1000 directories that have the +t bit.
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1001
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1002 This is because of a kernel bug in FreeBSD 2.1.5 (fixed in 2.2).
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parents:
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1003 Emacs uses symbolic links to implement file locks. In a directory
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1004 with +t bit, the directory owner becomes the owner of the symbolic
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1005 link, so that it cannot be removed by anyone else.
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1006
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1007 If you don't like those useless links, you can let Emacs not to using
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1008 file lock by adding #undef CLASH_DETECTION to config.h.
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1009
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1010 * When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down'
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parents:
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1011 commands do not move the arrow in Emacs.
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parents:
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1012
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1013 You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit':
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1014
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1015 dbxenv output_short_file_name off
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1016
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1017 * Emacs says it has saved a file, but the file does not actually
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1018 appear on disk.
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parents:
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1019
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1020 This can happen on certain systems when you are using NFS, if the
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1021 remote disk is full. It is due to a bug in NFS (or certain NFS
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diff changeset
1022 implementations), and there is apparently nothing Emacs can do to
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diff changeset
1023 detect the problem. Emacs checks the failure codes of all the system
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diff changeset
1024 calls involved in writing a file, including `close'; but in the case
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1025 where the problem occurs, none of those system calls fails.
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1026
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1027 * "Compose Character" key does strange things when used as a Meta key.
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1028
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1029 If you define one key to serve as both Meta and Compose Character, you
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diff changeset
1030 will get strange results. In previous Emacs versions, this "worked"
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parents:
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1031 in that the key acted as Meta--that's because the older Emacs versions
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1032 did not try to support Compose Character. Now Emacs tries to do
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diff changeset
1033 character composition in the standard X way. This means that you
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1034 must pick one meaning or the other for any given key.
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diff changeset
1035
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diff changeset
1036 You can use both functions (Meta, and Compose Character) if you assign
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1037 them to two different keys.
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1038
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1039 * Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup, on AIX4.2.
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parents:
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1040
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1041 If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c
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1042 without optimization; that should avoid the problem.
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1043
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parents:
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1044 * movemail compiled with POP support can't connect to the POP server.
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parents:
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1045
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1046 Make sure that the `pop' entry in /etc/services, or in the services
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diff changeset
1047 NIS map if your machine uses NIS, has the same port number as the
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parents:
diff changeset
1048 entry on the POP server. A common error is for the POP server to be
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parents:
diff changeset
1049 listening on port 110, the assigned port for the POP3 protocol, while
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parents:
diff changeset
1050 the client is trying to connect on port 109, the assigned port for the
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parents:
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1051 old POP protocol.
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parents:
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1052
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1053 * Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog.
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1054
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1055 This can happen if the dialog widget cannot find the font it wants to
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1056 use. You can work around the problem by specifying another font with
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1057 an X resource--for example, `Emacs.dialog*.font: 9x15' (or any font that
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1058 happens to exist on your X server).
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1059
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1060 * Emacs crashes when you use Bibtex mode.
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1061
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1062 This happens if your system puts a small limit on stack size. You can
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1063 prevent the problem by using a suitable shell command (often `ulimit')
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1064 to raise the stack size limit before you run Emacs.
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1065
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1066 Patches to raise the stack size limit automatically in `main'
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1067 (src/emacs.c) on various systems would be greatly appreciated.
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1068
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1069 * Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on HPUX 9 after you delete a frame.
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1070
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1071 We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With
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1072 the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem
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1073 does not happen.
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1074
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1075 * Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame.
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1076
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1077 We suspect that this is a similar bug in the X libraries provided by
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1078 Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and
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1079 makes the problem stop:
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1080
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1081 105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02
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1082 105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03
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1083 106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01
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1084 105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01
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1085
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1086 Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06)
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1087 suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches:
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1088
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1089 106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch
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1090 106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes
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1091 105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch
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1092
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1093 * Problems running Perl under Emacs on Windows NT/95.
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1094
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1095 `perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell.
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1096 The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95).
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1097
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1098 The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to
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1099 "CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting
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1100 with the user.
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1101
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1102 On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a
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1103 pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to
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1104 communicate with the subprocess.
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1105
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1106 On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the
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1107 relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be
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1108 redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as
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1109 stdin.
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1110
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1111 A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON.
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1112
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1113 For Perl 4:
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1114
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1115 *** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993
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1116 --- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996
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1117 ***************
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1118 *** 68,74 ****
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1119 $rcfile=".perldb";
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1120 }
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1121 else {
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1122 ! $console = "con";
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1123 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
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1124 }
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1125
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1126 --- 68,74 ----
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1127 $rcfile=".perldb";
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1128 }
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1129 else {
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1130 ! $console = "";
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1131 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
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1132 }
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1133
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1134
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1135 For Perl 5:
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1136 *** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995
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1137 --- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996
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1138 ***************
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1139 *** 22,28 ****
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1140 $rcfile=".perldb";
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1141 }
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1142 elsif (-e "con") {
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1143 ! $console = "con";
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1144 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
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1145 }
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1146 else {
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1147 --- 22,28 ----
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1148 $rcfile=".perldb";
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1149 }
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parents:
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1150 elsif (-e "con") {
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1151 ! $console = "";
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1152 $rcfile="perldb.ini";
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1153 }
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parents:
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1154 else {
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1155
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1156 * Problems running DOS programs on Windows NT versions earlier than 3.51.
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1157
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1158 Some DOS programs, such as pkzip/pkunzip will not work at all, while
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1159 others will only work if their stdin is redirected from a file or NUL.
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1160
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1161 When a DOS program does not work, a new process is actually created, but
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1162 hangs. It cannot be interrupted from Emacs, and might need to be killed
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1163 by an external program if Emacs is hung waiting for the process to
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1164 finish. If Emacs is not waiting for it, you should be able to kill the
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parents:
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1165 instance of ntvdm that is running the hung process from Emacs, if you
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1166 can find out the process id.
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1167
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1168 It is safe to run most DOS programs using call-process (eg. M-! and
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1169 M-|) since stdin is then redirected from a file, but not with
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1170 start-process since that redirects stdin to a pipe. Also, running DOS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1171 programs in a shell buffer prompt without redirecting stdin does not
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1172 work.
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1173
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1174 * Problems on MS-DOG if DJGPP v2.0 is used to compile Emacs:
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1175
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1176 There are two DJGPP library bugs which cause problems:
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1177
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1178 * Running `shell-command' (or `compile', or `grep') you get
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1179 `Searching for program: permission denied (EACCES), c:/command.com';
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parents:
diff changeset
1180 * After you shell to DOS, Ctrl-Break kills Emacs.
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1181
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1182 To work around these bugs, you can use two files in the msdos
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1183 subdirectory: `is_exec.c' and `sigaction.c'. Compile them and link
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diff changeset
1184 them into the Emacs executable `temacs'; then they will replace the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1185 incorrect library functions.
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parents:
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1186
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1187 * When compiling with DJGPP on Windows 95, Make fails for some targets
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parents:
diff changeset
1188 like make-docfile.
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parents:
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1189
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diff changeset
1190 This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment
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diff changeset
1191 variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during
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parents:
diff changeset
1192 compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1193 the explanation of how to avoid this problem.
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parents:
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1194
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parents:
diff changeset
1195 * Emacs compiled for MSDOS cannot find some Lisp files, or other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1196 run-time support files, when long filename support is enabled.
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parents:
diff changeset
1197 (Usually, this problem will manifest itself when Emacs exits
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1198 immediately after flashing the startup screen, because it cannot find
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parents:
diff changeset
1199 the Lisp files it needs to load at startup. Redirect Emacs stdout
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parents:
diff changeset
1200 and stderr to a file to see the error message printed by Emacs.)
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parents:
diff changeset
1201
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parents:
diff changeset
1202 This can happen if the Emacs distribution was unzipped without LFN
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1203 support, thus causing long filenames to be truncated to the first 6
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1204 characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1205 You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1206 filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1207 compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL
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parents:
diff changeset
1208 explains this issue in more detail.
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parents:
diff changeset
1209
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parents:
diff changeset
1210 * Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup:
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parents:
diff changeset
1211
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parents:
diff changeset
1212 "Wrong type of argument: internal-facep, msdos-menu-active-face"
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parents:
diff changeset
1213
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parents:
diff changeset
1214 This can happen if you define an environment variable `TERM'. Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1215 on MSDOS uses an internal terminal emulator which is disabled if the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1216 value of `TERM' is anything but the string "internal". Emacs then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1217 works as if its terminal were a dumb glass teletype that doesn't
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1218 support faces. To work around this, arrange for `TERM' to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1219 undefined when Emacs runs. The best way to do that is to add an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1220 [emacs] section to the DJGPP.ENV file which defines an empty value for
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parents:
diff changeset
1221 `TERM'; this way, only Emacs gets the empty value, while the rest of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1222 your system works as before.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1223
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parents:
diff changeset
1224 * On Windows 95, Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1225
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1226 This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1227 You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1228
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parents:
diff changeset
1229 * Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on Windows 95.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1230
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1231 This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1232 you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1233 and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1234
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parents:
diff changeset
1235 * `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses.
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parents:
diff changeset
1236
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1237 This problem results from an incompatible change in ncurses, in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1238 version 1.9.9e approximately. This version is unable to provide a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1239 definition of tparm without also defining tparam. This is also
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1240 incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1241 does not work with this version of ncurses.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1242
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parents:
diff changeset
1243 The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1244
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1245 * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1246
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1247 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1248 editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1249 as GCC.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1250
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1251 * Output from subprocess (such as man or diff) is randomly truncated
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1252 on GNU/Linux systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1253
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1254 This is due to a kernel bug which seems to be fixed in Linux version
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1255 1.3.75.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1256
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1257 * Error messages `internal facep []' happen on GNU/Linux systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1258
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1259 There is a report that replacing libc.so.5.0.9 with libc.so.5.2.16
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1260 caused this to start happening. People are not sure why, but the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1261 problem seems unlikely to be in Emacs itself. Some suspect that it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1262 is actually Xlib which won't work with libc.so.5.2.16.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1263
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1264 Using the old library version is a workaround.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1265
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1266 * On Solaris, Emacs crashes if you use (display-time).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1267
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1268 This can happen if you configure Emacs without specifying the precise
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1269 version of Solaris that you are using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1270
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1271 * Emacs dumps core on startup, on Solaris.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1272
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1273 Bill Sebok says that the cause of this is Solaris 2.4 vendor patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1274 102303-05, which extends the Solaris linker to deal with the Solaris
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1275 Common Desktop Environment's linking needs. You can fix the problem
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1276 by removing this patch and installing patch 102049-02 instead.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1277 However, that linker version won't work with CDE.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1278
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1279 Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug. It is reported that if
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1280 you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1281 We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1282 for certain.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1283
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1284 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1285 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1286 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1287
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1288 (One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1289 with patches 102980-04, 103279-01, 103300-02, and 103468-01.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1290
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1291 If you can determine which patch does fix the bug, please tell
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1292 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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parents:
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1293
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1294 Meanwhile, the GNU linker links Emacs properly on both Solaris 2.4 and
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1295 Solaris 2.5.
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1296
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1297 * Emacs dumps core if lisp-complete-symbol is called, on Solaris.
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1298
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1299 If you compile Emacs with the -fast or -xO4 option with version 3.0.2
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1300 of the Sun C compiler, Emacs dumps core when lisp-complete-symbol is
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1301 called. The problem does not happen if you compile with GCC.
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1302
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1303 * "Cannot find callback list" messages from dialog boxes on HPUX, in
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1304 Emacs built with Motif.
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1305
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1306 This problem resulted from a bug in GCC 2.4.5. Newer GCC versions
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1307 such as 2.7.0 fix the problem.
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1308
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1309 * On Irix 6.0, make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi
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1310
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1311 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o"
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1312 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run,
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1313 find that string, and take out the spaces.
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1314
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1315 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem.
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1316
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1317 * "out of virtual swap space" on Irix 5.3
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1318
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1319 This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too
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1320 many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more
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1321 swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You
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1322 can check the current status of the swap space by executing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1323 command `swap -l'.
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1324
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1325 You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a
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1326 line like this:
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1327
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1328 /usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0
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1329
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1330 where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance
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1331 by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of
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1332 that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the
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1333 new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further
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1334 information.
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1335
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1336 The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be
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1337 swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users
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1338 on the network that can log on to the host.
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1339
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1340 If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute
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1341 the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1342 some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM
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1343 icons.
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1344
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1345 You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin'
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1346 FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35
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1347 ("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at
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1348 ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/.
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1349
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1350 * With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the
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1351 character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead.
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1352
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1353 One user on a Linux-based GNU system reported that this problem went
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1354 away with installation of a new X server. The failing server was
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1355 XFree86 3.1.1. XFree86 3.1.2 works.
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1356
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1357 * On SunOS 4.1.3, Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft.
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1358
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1359 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4'
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1360 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise
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1361 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which
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1362 it can do perfectly well for SunOS).
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1363
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1364 * On SunOS 4, Emacs processes keep going after you kill the X server
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1365 (or log out, if you logged in using X).
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1366
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1367 Someone reported that recompiling with GCC 2.7.0 fixed this problem.
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1368
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1369 * On AIX 4, some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer
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1370 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown".
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1371
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1372 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
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1373 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal
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1374 Definitions" to make them defined.
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1375
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1376 * On SunOS, you get linker errors
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1377 ld: Undefined symbol
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1378 _get_wmShellWidgetClass
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1379 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
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1380
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1381 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
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1382 or link libXmu statically.
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1383
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1384 * On AIX 4.1.2, linker error messages such as
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1385 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table
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1386 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o.
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1387
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1388 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing
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1389 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where
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1390 you build Emacs:
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1391
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1392 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a .
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1393 chmod 664 libIM.a
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1394 ranlib libIM.a
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1395
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1396 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in
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1397 Makefile).
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1398
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1399 * Unpredictable segmentation faults on Solaris 2.3 and 2.4.
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1400
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1401 A user reported that this happened in 19.29 when it was compiled with
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1402 the Sun compiler, but not when he recompiled with GCC 2.7.0.
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1403
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1404 We do not know whether something in Emacs is partly to blame for this.
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1405
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1406 * Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for
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1407 Windows.
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1408
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1409 A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this.
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1410 Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the
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1411 problem.
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1412
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1413 * Emacs crashes at startup on MSDOS.
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1414
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1415 Some users report that Emacs 19.29 requires dpmi memory management,
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parents:
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1416 and crashes on startup if the system does not have it. We don't yet
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1417 know why this happens--perhaps these machines don't have enough real
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parents:
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1418 memory, or perhaps something is wrong in Emacs or the compiler.
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1419 However, arranging to use dpmi support is a workaround.
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1420
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1421 You can find out if you have a dpmi host by running go32 without
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1422 arguments; it will tell you if it uses dpmi memory. For more
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1423 information about dpmi memory, consult the djgpp FAQ. (djgpp
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1424 is the GNU C compiler as packaged for MSDOS.)
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1425
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1426 Compiling Emacs under MSDOS is extremely sensitive for proper memory
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parents:
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1427 configuration. If you experience problems during compilation, consider
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parents:
diff changeset
1428 removing some or all memory resident programs (notably disk caches)
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parents:
diff changeset
1429 and make sure that your memory managers are properly configured. See
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parents:
diff changeset
1430 the djgpp faq for configuration hints.
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parents:
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1431
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1432 * A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm.
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1433
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1434 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions.
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1435 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file:
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1436
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1437 UsePPosition "on" #allow clients to request a position
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1438
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1439 * Compiling lib-src says there is no rule to make test-distrib.c.
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parents:
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1440
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parents:
diff changeset
1441 This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed. To solve
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1442 the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1443 Emacs's configure script.
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1444
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parents:
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1445 * Compiling wakeup, in lib-src, says it can't make wakeup.c.
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parents:
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1446
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parents:
diff changeset
1447 This results from a bug in GNU Sed version 2.03. To solve the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1448 problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun Emacs's
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parents:
diff changeset
1449 configure script.
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parents:
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1450
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parents:
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1451 * On Sunos 4.1.1, there are errors compiling sysdep.c.
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parents:
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1452
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1453 If you get errors such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1454
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1455 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1456 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union
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diff changeset
1457 "sysdep.c", line 2019: nodename undefined
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1458
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parents:
diff changeset
1459 This can result from defining LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It is very tricky
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1460 to use that environment variable with Emacs. The Emacs configure
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parents:
diff changeset
1461 script links many test programs with the system libraries; you must
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parents:
diff changeset
1462 make sure that the libraries available to configure are the same
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parents:
diff changeset
1463 ones available when you build Emacs.
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parents:
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1464
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parents:
diff changeset
1465 * The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1466 other non-English HP keyboards too).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1467
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parents:
diff changeset
1468 This is because HPUX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1469 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE
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parents:
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1470 configures the X server.
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parents:
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1471
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1472 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF
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parents:
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1473 keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
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parents:
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1474 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R
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parents:
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1475 EOF
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parents:
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1476
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parents:
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1477 xmodmap - << EOF
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parents:
diff changeset
1478 clear mod1
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parents:
diff changeset
1479 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol
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parents:
diff changeset
1480 add mod1 = Meta_L
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parents:
diff changeset
1481 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch
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parents:
diff changeset
1482 add mod2 = Mode_switch
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parents:
diff changeset
1483 EOF
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parents:
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1484
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parents:
diff changeset
1485 * The Emacs window disappears when you type M-q.
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parents:
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1486
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parents:
diff changeset
1487 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1488 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1489 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1490 manager to use some other command. You can disable the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1491 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults:
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1492
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diff changeset
1493 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False
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parents:
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1494
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parents:
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1495 * Emacs does not notice when you release the mouse.
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parents:
diff changeset
1496
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parents:
diff changeset
1497 There are reports that this happened with (some) Microsoft mice and
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parents:
diff changeset
1498 that replacing the mouse made it stop.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1499
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parents:
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1500 * Trouble using ptys on IRIX, or running out of ptys.
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parents:
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1501
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parents:
diff changeset
1502 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1503 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1504 to allocate ptys reliably.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1505
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parents:
diff changeset
1506 * On Irix 5.2, unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1507
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parents:
diff changeset
1508 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the
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parents:
diff changeset
1509 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset
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parents:
diff changeset
1510 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1511 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of
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parents:
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1512 syms.h.
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parents:
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1513
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parents:
diff changeset
1514 * Slow startup on Linux-based GNU systems.
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parents:
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1515
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parents:
diff changeset
1516 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that
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parents:
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1517 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1518
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parents:
diff changeset
1519 This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts.
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parents:
diff changeset
1520 Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to
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parents:
diff changeset
1521 improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both
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parents:
diff changeset
1522 networked and non-networked machines.
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parents:
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1523
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parents:
diff changeset
1524 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root.
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parents:
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1525
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parents:
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1526 ** Networked Case
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diff changeset
1527
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parents:
diff changeset
1528 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both
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parents:
diff changeset
1529 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this
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parents:
diff changeset
1530 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name):
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parents:
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1531
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parents:
diff changeset
1532 127.0.0.1 HOSTNAME
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parents:
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1533
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parents:
diff changeset
1534 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
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parents:
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1535 lines:
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parents:
diff changeset
1536
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parents:
diff changeset
1537 order hosts, bind
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parents:
diff changeset
1538 multi on
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parents:
diff changeset
1539
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1540 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
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1541 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
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1542 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections
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1543 dynamically allocate ip addresses).
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1544
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1545 ** Non-Networked Case
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1546
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1547 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well.
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1548 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a
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1549 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command
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1550 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts'
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1551 file is not necessary with this approach.
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1552
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1553 * On Solaris 2.4, Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs
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1554 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie.
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1555
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1556 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so
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1557 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines
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1558
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1559 #if ThreadedX
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1560 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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1561 #endif
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1562
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1563 to:
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1564
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1565 #if OSMinorVersion < 4
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1566 #if ThreadedX
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1567 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread
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1568 #endif
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1569 #endif
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1570
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1571 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4
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1572 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for
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1573 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under
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1574 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1575 definition for your type of machine and system.
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1576
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1577 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild
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1578 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1579 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3.
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1580
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1581 For multithreaded X to work it is necessary to install patch
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1582 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need
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parents:
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1583 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1584 patch.
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1585
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1586 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution:
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1587 he changed
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1588 #define ThreadedX YES
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1589 to
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1590 #define ThreadedX NO
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1591 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all
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1592 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and
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1593 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work.
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1594
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1595 * With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice
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1596 to do incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response.
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1597
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1598 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit,
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1599 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use
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1600 another escape character in kermit. One user did
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1601
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1602 set escape-character 17
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1603
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1604 in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character.
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1605
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1606 * The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color.
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1607
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1608 This has been observed to result from the following X resource:
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1609
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1610 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*
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1611
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1612 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we
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1613 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can
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1614 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing
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1615 the resource prevents the problem.
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1616
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1617 * Emacs gets hung shortly after startup, on Sunos 4.1.3.
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1618
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1619 We think this is due to a bug in Sunos. The word is that
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1620 one of these Sunos patches fixes the bug:
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1621
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1622 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03 101080-01
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1623 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10 101134-01
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1624 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02 101070-01 101145-01
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1625 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02
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1626 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01
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1627
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1628 We don't know which of these patches really matter. If you find out
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1629 which ones, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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1630
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1631 * Emacs aborts while starting up, only when run without X.
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1632
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1633 This problem often results from compiling Emacs with GCC when GCC was
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1634 installed incorrectly. The usual error in installing GCC is to
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1635 specify --includedir=/usr/include. Installation of GCC makes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1636 corrected copies of the system header files. GCC is supposed to use
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parents:
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1637 the corrected copies in preference to the original system headers.
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parents:
diff changeset
1638 Specifying --includedir=/usr/include causes the original system header
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1639 files to be used. On some systems, the definition of ioctl in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1640 original system header files is invalid for ANSI C and causes Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1641 not to work.
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1642
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1643 The fix is to reinstall GCC, and this time do not specify --includedir
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1644 when you configure it. Then recompile Emacs. Specifying --includedir
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1645 is appropriate only in very special cases and it should *never* be the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1646 same directory where system header files are kept.
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1647
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1648 * On Solaris 2.x, GCC complains "64 bit integer types not supported"
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1649
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1650 This suggests that GCC is not installed correctly. Most likely you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1651 are using GCC 2.7.2.3 (or earlier) on Solaris 2.6 (or later); this
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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1652 does not work without patching. To run GCC 2.7.2.3 on Solaris 2.6 or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1653 later, you must patch fixinc.svr4 and reinstall GCC from scratch as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1654 described in the Solaris FAQ
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1655 <http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html>. A better fix is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1656 to upgrade to GCC 2.8.1 or later.
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parents:
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1657
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parents:
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1658 * The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key.
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parents:
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1659
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1660 This shell command should fix it:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1661
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1662 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L'
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parents:
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1663
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1664 * Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems.
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parents:
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1665
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1666 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1667 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C
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parents:
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1668 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick
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1669 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with
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parents:
diff changeset
1670 GCC.
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parents:
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1671
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parents:
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1672 * On Sunos 4, you get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version.
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1673
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
1674 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1675 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1676 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1677
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1678 * You can't select from submenus (in the X toolkit version).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1679
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1680 On certain systems, mouse-tracking and selection in top-level menus
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1681 works properly with the X toolkit, but neither of them works when you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1682 bring up a submenu (such as Bookmarks or Compare or Apply Patch, in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1683 the Files menu).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1684
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1685 This works on most systems. There is speculation that the failure is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1686 due to bugs in old versions of X toolkit libraries, but no one really
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1687 knows. If someone debugs this and finds the precise cause, perhaps a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1688 workaround can be found.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1689
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1690 * Unusable default font on SCO 3.2v4.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1691
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1692 The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1693 that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1694 fonts, so it does not work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1695
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1696 This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1697 the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1698 emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1699 that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1700 resources affect Emacs also:
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parents:
diff changeset
1701
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parents:
diff changeset
1702 *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-*
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parents:
diff changeset
1703 *Background: scoBackground
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parents:
diff changeset
1704 *Foreground: scoForeground
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1705
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1706 The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1707 Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1708
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parents:
diff changeset
1709 Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
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parents:
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1710 Emacs*Background: white
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parents:
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1711 Emacs*Foreground: black
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parents:
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1712
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parents:
diff changeset
1713 (These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1714 suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1715 starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1716 environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1717 as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1718 /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1719 but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1720 Open Desktop display.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1721
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1722 These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1723 machines; you must create the file on each machine individually.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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1724
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1725 * rcs2log gives you the awk error message "too many fields".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1726
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1727 This is due to an arbitrary limit in certain versions of awk.
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parents:
diff changeset
1728 The solution is to use gawk (GNU awk).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1729
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1730 * Emacs is slow using X11R5 on HP/UX.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1731
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1732 This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1733 doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1734 because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1735 libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1736 those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1737 install them and rebuild Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1738
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1739 * Loading fonts is very slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1740
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1741 You might be getting scalable fonts instead of precomputed bitmaps.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1742 Known scalable font directories are "Type1" and "Speedo". A font
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1743 directory contains scalable fonts if it contains the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1744 "fonts.scale".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1745
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parents:
diff changeset
1746 If this is so, re-order your X windows font path to put the scalable
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1747 font directories last. See the documentation of `xset' for details.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1748
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1749 With some X servers, it may be necessary to take the scalable font
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1750 directories out of your path entirely, at least for Emacs 19.26.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1751 Changes in the future may make this unnecessary.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1752
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1753 * On AIX 3.2.4, releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1754
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1755 Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is
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parents:
diff changeset
1756 ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1757 lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1758 treated as control characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1759
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1760 You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1761 releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1762
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1763 * display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1764
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1765 Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1766 versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1767 cells. Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1768 This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1769 processes die, in particular pcnfsd.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1770
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1771 Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1772 the same problem. Display-time seems to be far the worst.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1773
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1774 The only known fix: Don't run display-time.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1775
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1776 * On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
1777
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1778 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r
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1779 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs.
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1780
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1781 * Error message `Symbol's value as variable is void: x', followed by
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1782 segmentation fault and core dump.
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1783
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1784 This has been tracked to a bug in tar! People report that tar erroneously
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1785 added a line like this at the beginning of files of Lisp code:
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1786
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1787 x FILENAME, N bytes, B tape blocks
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1788
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1789 If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to
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1790 untar it :-).
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1791
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1792 * Link failure when using acc on a Sun.
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1793
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1794 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as
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1795
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1796 /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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1797
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1798 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc.
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1799
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1800 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we
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1801 cannot easily arrange to supply them.
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1802
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1803 * Link failure on IBM AIX 1.3 ptf 0013.
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1804
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1805 There is a real duplicate definition of the function `_slibc_free' in
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1806 the library /lib/libc_s.a (just do nm on it to verify). The
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1807 workaround/fix is:
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1808
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1809 cd /lib
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1810 ar xv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
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1811 ar dv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o
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1812
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1813 * Undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym and/or _dlclose on a Sun.
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1814
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1815 If you see undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym, or _dlclose when linking
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1816 with -lX11, compile and link against the file mit/util/misc/dlsym.c in
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1817 the MIT X11R5 distribution. Alternatively, link temacs using shared
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1818 libraries with s/sunos4shr.h. (This doesn't work if you use the X
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1819 toolkit.)
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1820
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1821 If you get the additional error that the linker could not find
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1822 lib_version.o, try extracting it from X11/usr/lib/X11/libvim.a in
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1823 X11R4, then use it in the link.
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1824
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1825 * Error messages `Wrong number of arguments: #<subr where-is-internal>, 5'
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1826
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1827 This typically results from having the powerkey library loaded.
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1828 Powerkey was designed for Emacs 19.22. It is obsolete now because
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1829 Emacs 19 now has this feature built in; and powerkey also calls
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1830 where-is-internal in an obsolete way.
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1831
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1832 So the fix is to arrange not to load powerkey.
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1833
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1834 * In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line.
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1835
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1836 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too
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1837 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns
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1838 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the
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1839 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:
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1840
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1841 if ($?EMACS) then
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1842 if ($EMACS == "t") then
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1843 unset edit
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1844 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
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1845 endif
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1846 endif
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1847
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1848 * An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid
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1849 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'.
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1850
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1851 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as
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1852 emacs*Cursor: black
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1853 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something
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1854 that isn't a color.)
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1855
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1856 The fix is to correct your X resources.
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1857
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1858 * Undefined symbols when linking on Sunos 4.1 using --with-x-toolkit.
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1859
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1860 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace,
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1861 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after
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1862 -lXaw in the command that links temacs.
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1863
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1864 This problem seems to arise only when the international language
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1865 extensions to X11R5 are installed.
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1866
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1867 * Typing C-c C-c in Shell mode kills your X server.
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1868
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1869 This happens with Linux kernel 1.0 thru 1.04, approximately. The workaround is
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1870 to define SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS in config.h and recompile Emacs.
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1871 Newer Linux kernel versions don't have this problem.
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1872
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1873 * src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing.
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1874
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1875 This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version
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1876 had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly.
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1877
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1878 * Slow startup on X11R6 with X windows.
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1879
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1880 If Emacs takes two minutes to start up on X11R6, see if your X
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1881 resources specify any Adobe fonts. That causes the type-1 font
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1882 renderer to start up, even if the font you asked for is not a type-1
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1883 font.
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1884
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1885 One way to avoid this problem is to eliminate the type-1 fonts from
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1886 your font path, like this:
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1887
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1888 xset -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
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1889
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1890 * Pull-down menus appear in the wrong place, in the toolkit version of Emacs.
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1891
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1892 An X resource of this form can cause the problem:
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1893
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1894 Emacs*geometry: 80x55+0+0
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1895
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1896 This resource is supposed to apply, and does apply, to the menus
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1897 individually as well as to Emacs frames. If that is not what you
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1898 want, rewrite the resource.
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1899
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1900 To check thoroughly for such resource specifications, use `xrdb
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1901 -query' to see what resources the X server records, and also look at
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1902 the user's ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-* files.
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1903
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1904 * --with-x-toolkit version crashes when used with shared libraries.
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1905
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1906 On some systems, including Sunos 4 and DGUX 5.4.2 and perhaps others,
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1907 unexec doesn't work properly with the shared library for the X
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1908 toolkit. You might be able to work around this by using a nonshared
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1909 libXt.a library. The real fix is to upgrade the various versions of
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1910 unexec and/or ralloc. We think this has been fixed on Sunos 4
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1911 and Solaris in version 19.29.
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1912
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1913 * `make install' fails on install-doc with `Error 141'.
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1914
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1915 This happens on Ultrix 4.2 due to failure of a pipeline of tar
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1916 commands. We don't know why they fail, but the bug seems not to be in
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1917 Emacs. The workaround is to run the shell command in install-doc by
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1918 hand.
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1919
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1920 * --with-x-toolkit option configures wrong on BSD/386.
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1921
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1922 This problem is due to bugs in the shell in version 1.0 of BSD/386.
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1923 The workaround is to edit the configure file to use some other shell,
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1924 such as bash.
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1925
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1926 * Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies, on Sunos 5.3.
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1927
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1928 A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs
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1929 exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only
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1930 applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses
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1931 communicating through pipes.
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1932
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1933 * Mail is lost when sent to local aliases.
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1934
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1935 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the
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1936 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be
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1937 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually)
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1938 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which
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1939 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the
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1940 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to
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1941 obtain the destination address.
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1942
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1943 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail.
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1944 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize
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1945 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris
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1946 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS
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1947 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which
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1948 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time
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1949 of this writing, these official versions are available:
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1950
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1951 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail:
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1952 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation)
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1953 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files)
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1954 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs)
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1955 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript)
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1956
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1957 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub:
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1958 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz
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1959
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1960 * On AIX, you get this message when running Emacs:
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1961
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1962 Could not load program emacs
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1963 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined
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1964 Error was: Exec format error
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1965
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1966 or this one:
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1967
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1968 Could not load program .emacs
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1969 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined
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1970 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined
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1971 Error was: Exec format error
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1972
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1973 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was
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1974 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile.
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1975
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1976 * On AIX, you get this compiler error message:
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1977
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1978 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h
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1979 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found.
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1980
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1981 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d
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1982 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install
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1983 X11Dev... with smit.
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1984
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1985 * You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key.
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1986
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1987 This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym
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1988 Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11
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1989 character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key
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1990 to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap.
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1991
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1992 For example, here's one way to turn it into a Meta key:
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1993
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1994 xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Meta_L"
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1995
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1996 If all users at your site of a particular keyboard prefer Meta to
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1997 Compose, you can make the remapping happen automatically by adding the
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1998 xmodmap command to the xdm setup script for that display.
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1999
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2000 * C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs.
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2001
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2002 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even
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2003 though the system itself is capable of it. Either use a different shell,
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2004 or set the variable `cannot-suspend' to a non-nil value.
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2005
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2006 * Watch out for .emacs files and EMACSLOADPATH environment vars
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2007
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2008 These control the actions of Emacs.
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2009 ~/.emacs is your Emacs init file.
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2010 EMACSLOADPATH overrides which directories the function
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2011 "load" will search.
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2012
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2013 If you observe strange problems, check for these and get rid
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2014 of them, then try again.
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2015
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2016 * After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash.
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2017
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2018 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the
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2019 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly
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2020 the first time, and then crash when run a second time.
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2021
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2022 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time,
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2023 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2024 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the
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2025 configure script) that reads:
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2026 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC
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2027 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around
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2028 the kernel bug.
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2029
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2030 * Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating
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2031 directly with an X server.
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2032
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2033 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it
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2034 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2035 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c
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2036 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event
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2037 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you
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2038 have made the key binding correctly.
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2039
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2040 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may
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2041 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X
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2042 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by
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2043 default.
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2044
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2045 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows:
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2046
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2047 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L'
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2048 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R'
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2049
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2050 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2051 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2052 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2053 modifier bit not otherwise used.
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2054
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2055 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2056 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or
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2057 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the
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2058 commands show above to make them modifier keys.
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2059
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2060 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt
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2061 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs.
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2062
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2063 * `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'
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2064
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2065 On HP/UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS
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2066 file system. HP/UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and
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2067 does not get a response from the server within a timeout whose default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2068 value is just ten seconds.
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2069
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2070 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period.
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2071
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2072 * `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped Emacs on.
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2073
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2074 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2075 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2076 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work
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2077 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on.
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2078
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2079 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2080 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution.
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2081
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2082 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2083 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know.
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2084 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included
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2085 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host.
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2086
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2087 * On some variants of SVR4, Emacs does not work at all with X.
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2088
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2089 Try defining BROKEN_FIONREAD in your config.h file. If this solves
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2090 the problem, please send a bug report to tell us this is needed; be
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2091 sure to say exactly what type of machine and system you are using.
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2092
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2093 * Linking says that the functions insque and remque are undefined.
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2094
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2095 Change oldXMenu/Makefile by adding insque.o to the variable OBJS.
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2096
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2097 * Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though
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2098 the names work properly with other programs on the same system.
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2099 * Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.
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2100 * GNUs can't make contact with the specified host for nntp.
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2101
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2102 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared
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2103 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the
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2104 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2105 similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses.
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2106
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2107 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2108 the nameserver, but Emacs does not.
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2109
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2110 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you
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2111 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs.
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2112
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2113 On SunOS 4.1, simply define HAVE_RES_INIT.
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2114
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2115 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2116 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2117 do this is to add to config.h a definition of LIBS_SYSTEM, LIBS_MACHINE
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2118 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro
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2119 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2120 be careful not to lose the others.
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2121
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2122 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h:
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2123
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2124 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv
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2125
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2126 Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2127 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2128 again to say this:
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2129
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2130 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar
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2131
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2132 * On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2133
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2134 /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment
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2135
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2136 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2137
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2138 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2139
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2140 * Self documentation messages are garbled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2141
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2142 This means that the file `etc/DOC-...' doesn't properly correspond
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2143 with the Emacs executable. Redumping Emacs and then installing the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2144 corresponding pair of files should fix the problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2145
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2146 * Trouble using ptys on AIX.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2147
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2148 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2149 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2150
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2151 * Shell mode on HP/UX gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2152
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2153 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2154
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2155 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2156 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2157 tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2158 but tty is giving it back 3.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2159
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2160 The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a single
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2161 word:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2162
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2163 if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2164
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2165 should be changed to:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2166
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2167 if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
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2168
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2169 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2170 and into .login.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2171
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2172 * Using X Windows, control-shift-leftbutton makes Emacs hang.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2173
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2174 Use the shell command `xset bc' to make the old X Menu package work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2175
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2176 * Emacs running under X Windows does not handle mouse clicks.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2177 * `emacs -geometry 80x20' finds a file named `80x20'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2178
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2179 One cause of such problems is having (setq term-file-prefix nil) in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2180 your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2181 the environment.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2182
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2183 * Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2184
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2185 If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2186 `ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2187 that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2188 with a floating point option other than the default.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2189
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2190 It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2191 crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2192 However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2193 floating point option: -fsoft.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2194
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2195 * Emacs fails to get default settings from X Windows server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2196
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2197 The X library in X11R4 has a bug; it interchanges the 2nd and 3rd
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2198 arguments to XGetDefaults. Define the macro XBACKWARDS in config.h to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2199 tell Emacs to compensate for this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2200
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parents:
diff changeset
2201 I don't believe there is any way Emacs can determine for itself
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2202 whether this problem is present on a given system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2203
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2204 * Keyboard input gets confused after a beep when using a DECserver
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2205 as a concentrator.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2206
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2207 This problem seems to be a matter of configuring the DECserver to use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2208 7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2209
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2210 * M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1".
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2211
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2212 This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2213 version 4.0.x. The only fix was to reboot the machine.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2214
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parents:
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2215 * Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2216 terminal type.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2217
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parents:
diff changeset
2218 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2219 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2220 provide the information on the special terminal type that Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2221 emulates.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2222
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parents:
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2223 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2224 in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2225 it only if it is undefined.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2226
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2227 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2228
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2229 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2230 happen in a non-login shell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2231
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2232 * X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2233
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2234 People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2235 not to work with X Windows if DISPLAY is set using a host name. But
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2236 the problem does not occur if DISPLAY is set to `unix:0.0'. I think
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2237 the bug has to do with SIGIO or FIONREAD.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2238
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2239 You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2240 However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2241 you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2242
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2243 The easy way to do this is to put
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2244
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2245 (setq x-sigio-bug t)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2246
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2247 in your site-init.el file.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2248
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2249 * Problem with remote X server on Suns.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2250
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2251 On a Sun, running Emacs on one machine with the X server on another
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2252 may not work if you have used the unshared system libraries. This
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2253 is because the unshared libraries fail to use YP for host name lookup.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2254 As a result, the host name you specify may not be recognized.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2255
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2256 * Shell mode ignores interrupts on Apollo Domain
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2257
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2258 You may find that M-x shell prints the following message:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2259
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2260 Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell...
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2261
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2262 This can happen if there are not enough ptys on your system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2263 Here is how to make more of them.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2264
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2265 % cd /dev
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2266 % ls pty*
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2267 # shows how many pty's you have. I had 8, named pty0 to pty7)
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2268 % /etc/crpty 8
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2269 # creates eight new pty's
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2270
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2271 * Fatal signal in the command temacs -l loadup inc dump
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2272
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2273 This command is the final stage of building Emacs. It is run by the
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2274 Makefile in the src subdirectory, or by build.com on VMS.
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2275
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2276 It has been known to get fatal errors due to insufficient swapping
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2277 space available on the machine.
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2278
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2279 On 68000's, it has also happened because of bugs in the
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2280 subroutine `alloca'. Verify that `alloca' works right, even
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2281 for large blocks (many pages).
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2282
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2283 * test-distrib says that the distribution has been clobbered
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2284 * or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127"
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2285 * or, temacs runs and dumps emacs, but emacs totally fails to work.
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2286 * or, temacs gets errors dumping emacs
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2287
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2288 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be
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2289 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are
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2290 binary files and can contain all 256 byte values.
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2291
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2292 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs.
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2293 It typically truncates "lines". What appear to be "lines" in
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2294 a binary file can of course be of any length. Even once `shar'
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2295 itself is made to work correctly, `sh' discards null characters
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2296 when unpacking the shell archive.
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2297
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2298 I have also seen character \177 changed into \377. I do not know
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2299 what transfer means caused this problem. Various network
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2300 file transfer programs are suspected of clobbering the high bit.
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2301
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2302 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its
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2303 nonprinting characters, you can fix them:
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2304
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2305 1) Record the names of all the .elc files.
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2306 2) Delete all the .elc files.
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2307 3) Recompile alloc.c with a value of PURESIZE twice as large.
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2308 (See puresize.h.) You might as well save the old alloc.o.
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2309 4) Remake emacs. It should work now.
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2310 5) Running emacs, do Meta-x byte-compile-file repeatedly
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2311 to recreate all the .elc files that used to exist.
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2312 You may need to increase the value of the variable
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2313 max-lisp-eval-depth to succeed in running the compiler interpreted
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2314 on certain .el files. 400 was sufficient as of last report.
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2315 6) Reinstall the old alloc.o (undoing changes to alloc.c if any)
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2316 and remake temacs.
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2317 7) Remake emacs. It should work now, with valid .elc files.
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2318
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2319 * temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted"
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2320
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2321 This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el
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2322 files during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more
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2323 space than was allocated.
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2324
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2325 This could be caused by
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2326 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files
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2327 2) adding more preloaded files in loadup.el
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2328 3) having a site-init.el or site-load.el which loads files.
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2329 Note that ANY site-init.el or site-load.el is nonstandard;
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2330 if you have received Emacs from some other site
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2331 and it contains a site-init.el or site-load.el file, consider
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2332 deleting that file.
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2333 4) getting the wrong .el or .elc files
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2334 (not from the directory you expected).
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2335 5) deleting some .elc files that are supposed to exist.
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2336 This would cause the source files (.el files) to be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2337 loaded instead. They take up more room, so you lose.
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2338 6) a bug in the Emacs distribution which underestimates
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2339 the space required.
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2340
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2341 If the need for more space is legitimate, change the definition
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2342 of PURESIZE in puresize.h.
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2343
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2344 But in some of the cases listed above, this problem is a consequence
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2345 of something else that is wrong. Be sure to check and fix the real
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2346 problem.
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2347
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2348 * Changes made to .el files do not take effect.
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2349
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2350 You may have forgotten to recompile them into .elc files.
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2351 Then the old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes
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2352 will not be seen. To fix this, do M-x byte-recompile-directory
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2353 and specify the directory that contains the Lisp files.
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2354
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2355 Emacs should print a warning when loading a .elc file which is older
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2356 than the corresponding .el file.
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2357
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2358 * The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data.
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2359
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2360 Two causes have been seen for such problems.
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2361
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2362 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined
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2363 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong,
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2364 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct
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2365 value in the man page for a.out (5).
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2366
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2367 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the
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2368 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2369 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and
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2370 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you
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2371 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file.
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2372
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2373 * Compilation errors on VMS.
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2374
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2375 You will get warnings when compiling on VMS because there are
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2376 variable names longer than 32 (or whatever it is) characters.
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2377 This is not an error. Ignore it.
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2378
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2379 VAX C does not support #if defined(foo). Uses of this construct
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2380 were removed, but some may have crept back in. They must be rewritten.
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2381
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2382 There is a bug in the C compiler which fails to sign extend characters
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2383 in conditional expressions. The bug is:
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2384 char c = -1, d = 1;
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2385 int i;
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2386
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2387 i = d ? c : d;
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2388 The result is i == 255; the fix is to typecast the char in the
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2389 conditional expression as an (int). Known occurrences of such
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2390 constructs in Emacs have been fixed.
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2391
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2392 * rmail gets error getting new mail
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2393
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2394 rmail gets new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program
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2395 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using
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2396 the protocol defined by /bin/mail.
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2397
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2398 There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses
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2399 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file;
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2400 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do
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parents:
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2401 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2402 the macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes.
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2403 IF YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2404 SYSTEM, YOU CAN LOSE MAIL!
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2405
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diff changeset
2406 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2407 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2408 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2409 `mail'. You can use these commands (as root):
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2410
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2411 chgrp mail movemail
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2412 chmod 2755 movemail
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2413
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2414 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2415 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail,
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parents:
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2416 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2417 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing the
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2418 make install.
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2419
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2420 chgrp mail movemail
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2421 chmod 2755 movemail
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2422
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2423 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an
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parents:
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2424 installation directory which is usually under /usr/local/lib. The
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2425 installed copy of movemail is usually in the directory
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2426 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2427 mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2428 directory copy is ineffective.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2429
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parents:
diff changeset
2430 * Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2431
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2432 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being
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parents:
diff changeset
2433 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2434 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2435 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2436 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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diff changeset
2437 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2438 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2439 easy, for a person with at least half a brain.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2440
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diff changeset
2441 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2442
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2443 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2444 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2445 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2446
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parents:
diff changeset
2447 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2448 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2449 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2450 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2451 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2452 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2453
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2454 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2455 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2456 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2457 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2458 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if
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parents:
diff changeset
2459 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2460 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2461 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2462 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2463
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2464 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2465 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2466 codes. You might as well try it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2467
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2468 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2469 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2470 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2471 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2472 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard),
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2473 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2474 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2475 measures can make Emacs semi-work.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2476
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2477 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2478 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2479 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2480 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2481 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2482 control handling.)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2483
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2484 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2485 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2486 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2487 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2488 other control characters are already used by emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2489
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2490 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2491 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2492 order to continue.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2493
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2494 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2495 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2496 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2497 automatically. Here is an example:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2498
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2499 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2500
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2501 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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2502 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2503 manually.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2504
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parents:
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2505 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2506 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2507 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2508 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2509 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2510 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2511 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2512 of inferior systems.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2513
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2514 * Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2515
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2516 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2517 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2518 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2519 that wants to use flow control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2520
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2521 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2522 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2523 flow control, as described in the preceding section.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2524
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2525 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2526 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2527 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2528
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2529 * Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely on a net connection.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2530
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2531 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2532 control characters to the remote system to which they connect.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2533 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2534 control on the local system.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2535
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2536 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2537 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2538 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2539 "stty start u stop u" will do this.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2540
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2541 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2542 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2543 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2544
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2545 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2546 M-x enable-flow-control at the beginning of your emacs session, or
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2547 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2548 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind):
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2549
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2550 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131")
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2551
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2552 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2553 info.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2554
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2555 * Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2556
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2557 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2558 terminal is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2559 the combination of features specified for that terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2560
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2561 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2562 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2563 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2564 terminal output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2565 what makes the screen update wrong, and look at the file
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2566 and decode the characters using the manual for the terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2567 There are several possibilities:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2568
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2569 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2570
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2571 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2572 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2573
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2574 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2575 of the terminal behavior not described in an obvious way
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2576 by termcap.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2577
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2578 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2579 Emacs to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2580 and other terminals that behave subtly differently but are
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2581 classified the same by termcap; or else find an algorithm for
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2582 Emacs to use that avoids the difference. Such changes must be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2583 tested on many kinds of terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2584
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2585 3) The termcap entry is wrong.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2586
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2587 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2588 that are known to be needed in commonly used termcap entries
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2589 for certain terminals.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2590
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2591 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2592 right for any terminal with the termcap entry you were using.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2593
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2594 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2595 in termcap.c, tparam.c, term.c, scroll.c, cm.c or dispnew.c.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2596
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2597 * Output from Control-V is slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2598
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2599 On many bit-map terminals, scrolling operations are fairly slow.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2600 Often the termcap entry for the type of terminal in use fails
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2601 to inform Emacs of this. The two lines at the bottom of the screen
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2602 before a Control-V command are supposed to appear at the top after
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2603 the Control-V command. If Emacs thinks scrolling the lines is fast,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2604 it will scroll them to the top of the screen.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2605
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2606 If scrolling is slow but Emacs thinks it is fast, the usual reason is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2607 that the termcap entry for the terminal you are using does not
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2608 specify any padding time for the `al' and `dl' strings. Emacs
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2609 concludes that these operations take only as much time as it takes to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2610 send the commands at whatever line speed you are using. You must
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2611 fix the termcap entry to specify, for the `al' and `dl', as much
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2612 time as the operations really take.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2613
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2614 Currently Emacs thinks in terms of serial lines which send characters
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2615 at a fixed rate, so that any operation which takes time for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2616 terminal to execute must also be padded. With bit-map terminals
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2617 operated across networks, often the network provides some sort of
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2618 flow control so that padding is never needed no matter how slow
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2619 an operation is. You must still specify a padding time if you want
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2620 Emacs to realize that the operation takes a long time. This will
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2621 cause padding characters to be sent unnecessarily, but they do
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2622 not really cost much. They will be transmitted while the scrolling
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2623 is happening and then discarded quickly by the terminal.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2624
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2625 Most bit-map terminals provide commands for inserting or deleting
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2626 multiple lines at once. Define the `AL' and `DL' strings in the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2627 termcap entry to say how to do these things, and you will have
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2628 fast output without wasted padding characters. These strings should
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2629 each contain a single %-spec saying how to send the number of lines
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2630 to be scrolled. These %-specs are like those in the termcap
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2631 `cm' string.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2632
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2633 You should also define the `IC' and `DC' strings if your terminal
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2634 has a command to insert or delete multiple characters. These
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2635 take the number of positions to insert or delete as an argument.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2636
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2637 A `cs' string to set the scrolling region will reduce the amount
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2638 of motion you see on the screen when part of the screen is scrolled.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2639
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2640 * Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal, using an AIXterm.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2641
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2642 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2643
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2644 *aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2645 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2646
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2647 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127).
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2648
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2649 * You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2650
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2651 Put `stty dec' in your .login file and your problems will disappear
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2652 after a day or two.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2653
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2654 The choice of Backspace for erasure was based on confusion, caused by
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2655 the fact that backspacing causes erasure (later, when you type another
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2656 character) on most display terminals. But it is a mistake. Deletion
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2657 of text is not the same thing as backspacing followed by failure to
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2658 overprint. I do not wish to propagate this confusion by conforming
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2659 to it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2660
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2661 For this reason, I believe `stty dec' is the right mode to use,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2662 and I have designed Emacs to go with that. If there were a thousand
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2663 other control characters, I would define Control-h to delete as well;
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2664 but there are not very many other control characters, and I think
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2665 that providing the most mnemonic possible Help character is more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2666 important than adapting to people who don't use `stty dec'.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2667
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2668 If you are obstinate about confusing buggy overprinting with deletion,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2669 you can redefine Backspace in your .emacs file:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2670 (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2671 You can probably access help-command via f1.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2672
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2673 * Editing files through RFS gives spurious "file has changed" warnings.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2674 It is possible that a change in Emacs 18.37 gets around this problem,
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2675 but in case not, here is a description of how to fix the RFS bug that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2676 causes it.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2677
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2678 There was a serious pair of bugs in the handling of the fsync() system
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2679 call in the RFS server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2680
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2681 The first is that the fsync() call is handled as another name for the
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2682 close() system call (!!). It appears that fsync() is not used by very
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2683 many programs; Emacs version 18 does an fsync() before closing files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2684 to make sure that the bits are on the disk.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2685
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2686 This is fixed by the enclosed patch to the RFS server.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2687
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2688 The second, more serious problem, is that fsync() is treated as a
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2689 non-blocking system call (i.e., it's implemented as a message that
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2690 gets sent to the remote system without waiting for a reply). Fsync is
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2691 a useful tool for building atomic file transactions. Implementing it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2692 as a non-blocking RPC call (when the local call blocks until the sync
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2693 is done) is a bad idea; unfortunately, changing it will break the RFS
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2694 protocol. No fix was supplied for this problem.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2695
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2696 (as always, your line numbers may vary)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2697
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2698 % rcsdiff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2699 RCS file: RCS/serversyscall.c,v
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2700 retrieving revision 1.2
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2701 diff -c -r1.2 serversyscall.c
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2702 *** /tmp/,RCSt1003677 Wed Jan 28 15:15:02 1987
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2703 --- serversyscall.c Wed Jan 28 15:14:48 1987
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2704 ***************
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2705 *** 163,169 ****
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2706 /*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2707 * No return sent for close or fsync!
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2708 */
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2709 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close || syscall == RSYS_fsync)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2710 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2711 else
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2712 {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2713 --- 166,172 ----
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2714 /*
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2715 * No return sent for close or fsync!
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2716 */
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2717 ! if (syscall == RSYS_close)
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2718 proc->p_returnval = deallocate_fd(proc, msg->m_args[0]);
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2719 else
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2720 {
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2721
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2722 * Vax C compiler bugs affecting Emacs.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2723
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2724 You may get one of these problems compiling Emacs:
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2725
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2726 foo.c line nnn: compiler error: no table entry for op STASG
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2727 foo.c: fatal error in /lib/ccom
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2728
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2729 These are due to bugs in the C compiler; the code is valid C.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2730 Unfortunately, the bugs are unpredictable: the same construct
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2731 may compile properly or trigger one of these bugs, depending
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2732 on what else is in the source file being compiled. Even changes
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2733 in header files that should not affect the file being compiled
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2734 can affect whether the bug happens. In addition, sometimes files
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2735 that compile correctly on one machine get this bug on another machine.
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2736
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2737 As a result, it is hard for me to make sure this bug will not affect
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2738 you. I have attempted to find and alter these constructs, but more
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2739 can always appear. However, I can tell you how to deal with it if it
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
diff changeset
2740 should happen. The bug comes from having an indexed reference to an
Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
parents:
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2741 array of Lisp_Objects, as an argument in a function call:
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2742 Lisp_Object *args;
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2743 ...
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2744 ... foo (5, args[i], ...)...
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2745 putting the argument into a temporary variable first, as in
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2746 Lisp_Object *args;
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2747 Lisp_Object tem;
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2748 ...
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2749 tem = args[i];
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2750 ... foo (r, tem, ...)...
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2751 causes the problem to go away.
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2752 The `contents' field of a Lisp vector is an array of Lisp_Objects,
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2753 so you may see the problem happening with indexed references to that.
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2754
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2755 * 68000 C compiler problems
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2756
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2757 Various 68000 compilers have different problems.
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2758 These are some that have been observed.
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2759
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2760 ** Using value of assignment expression on union type loses.
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2761 This means that x = y = z; or foo (x = z); does not work
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2762 if x is of type Lisp_Object.
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2763
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2764 ** "cannot reclaim" error.
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2765
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2766 This means that an expression is too complicated. You get the correct
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2767 line number in the error message. The code must be rewritten with
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2768 simpler expressions.
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2769
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2770 ** XCONS, XSTRING, etc macros produce incorrect code.
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2771
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2772 If temacs fails to run at all, this may be the cause.
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2773 Compile this test program and look at the assembler code:
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2774
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2775 struct foo { char x; unsigned int y : 24; };
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2776
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2777 lose (arg)
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2778 struct foo arg;
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2779 {
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2780 test ((int *) arg.y);
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2781 }
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2782
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2783 If the code is incorrect, your compiler has this problem.
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2784 In the XCONS, etc., macros in lisp.h you must replace (a).u.val with
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2785 ((a).u.val + coercedummy) where coercedummy is declared as int.
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2786
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2787 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
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2788 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE. That is the recommended setting now.
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2789
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2790 * C compilers lose on returning unions
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2791
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2792 I hear that some C compilers cannot handle returning a union type.
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2793 Most of the functions in GNU Emacs return type Lisp_Object, which is
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2794 defined as a union on some rare architectures.
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2795
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2796 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type
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2797 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE.
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2798