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92354 | 1 Known Problems with GNU Emacs |
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3 Copyright (C) 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, |
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6 See the end of the file for license conditions. |
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25853 | 9 This file describes various problems that have been encountered |
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10 in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. Try doing C-c C-t |
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11 and browsing through the outline headers. (See C-h m for help on |
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12 Outline mode.) |
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14 * Mule-UCS doesn't work in Emacs 23. |
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16 It's completely redundant now, as far as we know. | |
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18 * Emacs startup failures |
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20 ** Emacs fails to start, complaining about missing fonts. |
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21 |
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22 A typical error message might be something like |
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23 |
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24 No fonts match `-*-fixed-medium-r-*--6-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' |
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26 This happens because some X resource specifies a bad font family for |
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27 Emacs to use. The possible places where this specification might be |
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28 are: |
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29 |
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30 - in your ~/.Xdefaults file |
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32 - client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or |
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33 /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Emacs or |
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34 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs |
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35 |
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36 One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a |
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37 fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find |
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38 the problematic line(s) and correct them. |
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39 |
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40 ** Emacs aborts while starting up, only when run without X. |
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42 This problem often results from compiling Emacs with GCC when GCC was |
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43 installed incorrectly. The usual error in installing GCC is to |
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44 specify --includedir=/usr/include. Installation of GCC makes |
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45 corrected copies of the system header files. GCC is supposed to use |
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46 the corrected copies in preference to the original system headers. |
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47 Specifying --includedir=/usr/include causes the original system header |
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48 files to be used. On some systems, the definition of ioctl in the |
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49 original system header files is invalid for ANSI C and causes Emacs |
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50 not to work. |
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52 The fix is to reinstall GCC, and this time do not specify --includedir |
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53 when you configure it. Then recompile Emacs. Specifying --includedir |
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54 is appropriate only in very special cases and it should *never* be the |
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55 same directory where system header files are kept. |
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57 ** Emacs does not start, complaining that it cannot open termcap database file. |
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59 If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern |
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60 systems do), this could happen if the proper version of |
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61 ncurses is not visible to the Emacs configure script (i.e. it |
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62 cannot be found along the usual path the linker looks for |
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63 libraries). It can happen because your version of ncurses is |
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64 obsolete, or is available only in form of binaries. |
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66 The solution is to install an up-to-date version of ncurses in |
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67 the developer's form (header files, static libraries and |
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68 symbolic links); in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Debian) |
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69 it constitutes a separate package. |
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71 ** Emacs 20 and later fails to load Lisp files at startup. |
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73 The typical error message might be like this: |
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75 "Cannot open load file: fontset" |
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77 This could happen if you compress the file lisp/subdirs.el. That file |
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78 tells Emacs what are the directories where it should look for Lisp |
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79 files. Emacs cannot work with subdirs.el compressed, since the |
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80 Auto-compress mode it needs for this will not be loaded until later, |
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81 when your .emacs file is processed. (The package `fontset.el' is |
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82 required to set up fonts used to display text on window systems, and |
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83 it's loaded very early in the startup procedure.) |
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85 Similarly, any other .el file for which there's no corresponding .elc |
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86 file could fail to load if it is compressed. |
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88 The solution is to uncompress all .el files which don't have a .elc |
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89 file. |
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91 Another possible reason for such failures is stale *.elc files |
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92 lurking somewhere on your load-path. The following command will |
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93 print any duplicate Lisp files that are present in load-path: |
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95 emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows |
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97 If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale, |
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98 and should be deleted or their directories removed from your |
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101 ** Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version. |
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103 An example of such an error is: |
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105 x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" |
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107 This can be another symptom of stale *.elc files in your load-path. |
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108 The following command will print any duplicate Lisp files that are |
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111 emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows |
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113 If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale, |
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114 and should be deleted or their directories removed from your |
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115 load-path. |
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117 ** With X11R6.4, public-patch-3, Emacs crashes at startup. |
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119 Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem. |
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121 --- xc/lib/X11/imInt.c~ Wed Jun 30 13:31:56 1999 |
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174 an X resource--for example, `Emacs.dialog*.font: 9x15' (or any font that |
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179 This happens if your system puts a small limit on stack size. You can |
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180 prevent the problem by using a suitable shell command (often `ulimit') |
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189 This has been tracked to a bug in tar! People report that tar erroneously |
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190 added a line like this at the beginning of files of Lisp code: |
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194 If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to |
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195 untar it :-). |
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198 libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1. |
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199 Configure checks for the correct version, but this problem could occur |
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200 if a binary built against a shared libungif is run on a system with an |
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201 older version. |
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205 This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the |
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206 terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo. |
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208 version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses |
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209 and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this. |
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211 All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the |
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212 problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses |
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213 terminfo when built. |
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217 Upgrading to a newer version of Exceed has been reported to prevent |
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218 these crashes. You should consider switching to a free X server, such |
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219 as Xming or Cygwin/X. |
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223 It crashes on X, but runs fine when called with option "-nw". |
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225 This has been observed when Emacs is linked with GNU ld but without passing |
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226 the -z nocombreloc flag. Emacs normally knows to pass the -z nocombreloc |
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227 flag when needed, so if you come across a situation where the flag is |
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228 necessary but missing, please report it via M-x report-emacs-bug. |
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231 configuring your compiler to use the native linker instead of GNU ld. |
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245 Gtk+ version (2.14.4 being current). |
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255 Cygwin malloc, the Cygwin memalign always returns ENOSYS. A fix for this |
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265 Then the old .elc files will be loaded, and your changes |
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274 These control the actions of Emacs. |
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275 ~/.emacs is your Emacs init file. |
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276 EMACSLOADPATH overrides which directories the function |
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277 "load" will search. |
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280 of them, then try again. |
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282 *** Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error. |
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284 The error message might be something like this: |
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286 "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth" |
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288 This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a |
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289 built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch |
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290 for epop3 that fixes this, but perhaps a newer version of epop3 |
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293 *** Buffers from `with-output-to-temp-buffer' get set up in Help mode. |
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295 Changes in Emacs 20.4 to the hooks used by that function cause |
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296 problems for some packages, specifically BBDB. See the function's |
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297 documentation for the hooks involved. BBDB 2.00.06 fixes the problem. |
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299 *** The Hyperbole package causes *Help* buffers not to be displayed in |
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300 Help mode due to setting `temp-buffer-show-hook' rather than using |
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301 `add-hook'. Using `(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook |
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302 'help-mode-maybe)' after loading Hyperbole should fix this. |
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304 ** Keyboard problems |
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306 *** "Compose Character" key does strange things when used as a Meta key. |
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308 If you define one key to serve as both Meta and Compose Character, you |
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312 character composition in the standard X way. This means that you |
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315 You can use both functions (Meta, and Compose Character) if you assign |
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318 *** C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs. |
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320 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even |
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321 though the system itself is capable of it. Either use a different shell, |
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322 or set the variable `cannot-suspend' to a non-nil value. |
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324 *** With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice |
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327 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit, |
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328 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use |
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349 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using |
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352 There are two different protocols in general use. One of them uses |
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353 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file; |
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354 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do |
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355 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining, |
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356 the macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes. |
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357 IF YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR |
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358 SYSTEM, YOU CAN LOSE MAIL! |
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360 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions |
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361 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail, |
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362 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as |
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363 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing the |
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369 Installation normally copies movemail from the build directory to an |
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372 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and |
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373 mode of the installed copy; changing the group and mode of the build |
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374 directory copy is ineffective. |
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376 *** rcs2log gives you the awk error message "too many fields". |
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378 This is due to an arbitrary limit in certain versions of awk. |
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379 The solution is to use gawk (GNU awk). |
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383 *** Emacs fails to understand most Internet host names, even though |
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384 the names work properly with other programs on the same system. |
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388 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared |
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389 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the |
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390 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a |
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391 similar version of the unshared library which Emacs uses. |
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393 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with |
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394 the nameserver, but Emacs does not. |
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396 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you |
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397 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs. |
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399 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a, |
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400 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to |
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402 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro |
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403 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries, |
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404 be careful not to lose the others. |
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406 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h: |
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408 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv |
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410 Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that |
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411 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h |
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414 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar |
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419 "localhost.localdomain", rather the name you were expecting. |
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422 (i.e. a name with at least one ".") either in /etc/hosts, |
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423 /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system calls for specifying |
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424 this. |
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426 If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable |
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427 mail-host-address to the value you want. |
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434 This can happen on certain systems when you are using NFS, if the |
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435 remote disk is full. It is due to a bug in NFS (or certain NFS |
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438 calls involved in writing a file, including `close'; but in the case |
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439 where the problem occurs, none of those system calls fails. |
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442 It is possible that a change in Emacs 18.37 gets around this problem, |
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443 but in case not, here is a description of how to fix the RFS bug that |
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444 causes it. |
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447 call in the RFS server. |
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450 close() system call (!!). It appears that fsync() is not used by very |
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451 many programs; Emacs version 18 does an fsync() before closing files |
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452 to make sure that the bits are on the disk. |
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458 gets sent to the remote system without waiting for a reply). Fsync is |
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459 a useful tool for building atomic file transactions. Implementing it |
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460 as a non-blocking RPC call (when the local call blocks until the sync |
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467 RCS file: RCS/serversyscall.c,v |
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470 *** /tmp/,RCSt1003677 Wed Jan 28 15:15:02 1987 |
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471 --- serversyscall.c Wed Jan 28 15:14:48 1987 |
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479 else |
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493 `before-change-function' and `after-change-function', which are no |
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498 PSGML package uses the same names of some variables (like keymap) |
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502 HTML page and then start to work with SGML or XML file. html-mode |
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504 (for sgml-mode or xml-mode) will cause an error. |
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506 *** Versions of the PSGML package earlier than 1.0.3 (stable) or 1.1.2 |
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507 (alpha) fail to parse DTD files correctly in Emacs 20.3 and later. |
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508 Here is a patch for psgml-parse.el from PSGML 1.0.1 and, probably, |
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509 earlier versions. |
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511 --- psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:18:18 1.1 |
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512 +++ psgml-parse.el 1998/08/21 19:20:00 |
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514 (setq sgml-buffer-parse-state nil)) |
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516 ((stringp entity) ; a file name |
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517 - (save-excursion (insert-file-contents entity)) |
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519 (setq default-directory (file-name-directory entity))) |
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520 ((consp (sgml-entity-text entity)) ; external id? |
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525 You should not be using a version older than 11.52 if you can avoid | |
526 it. | |
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528 *** Emacs 21 freezes when visiting a TeX file with AUCTeX installed. | |
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530 Emacs 21 needs version 10 or later of AUCTeX; upgrading should solve | |
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531 these problems. |
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535 Upgrade to AUC TeX version 10 or later, and make sure it is |
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536 byte-compiled with Emacs 21. |
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540 *** Lines are not updated or new lines are added in the buffer upon commit. |
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542 When committing files located higher in the hierarchy than the examined |
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543 directory, some versions of the CVS program return an ambiguous message |
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544 from which PCL-CVS cannot extract the full location of the committed |
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545 files. As a result, the corresponding lines in the PCL-CVS buffer are |
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547 added to the top-level directory. |
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549 This can happen with CVS versions 1.12.8 and 1.12.9. Upgrade to CVS |
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550 1.12.10 or newer to fix this problem. |
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552 ** Miscellaneous problems |
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554 *** Emacs uses 100% of CPU time |
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556 This is a known problem with some versions of the Semantic package. |
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557 The solution is to upgrade Semantic to version 2.0pre4 (distributed |
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558 with CEDET 1.0pre4) or later. |
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560 *** Self-documentation messages are garbled. |
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562 This means that the file `etc/DOC-...' doesn't properly correspond |
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563 with the Emacs executable. Redumping Emacs and then installing the |
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564 corresponding pair of files should fix the problem. |
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566 *** Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs' |
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567 terminal type. |
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569 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP |
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570 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to |
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572 emulates. |
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574 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP |
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575 in such a case. You could use the following conditional which sets |
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576 it only if it is undefined. |
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578 if ( ! ${?TERMCAP} ) setenv TERMCAP ~/my-termcap-file |
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580 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not |
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581 happen in a non-login shell. |
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583 *** In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line. |
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585 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too |
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586 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns |
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587 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the |
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588 problem by adding this to your .cshrc file: |
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592 unset edit |
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593 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z |
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594 endif |
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595 endif |
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597 *** Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is slow. |
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599 This can happen if the system is misconfigured and Emacs can't get the |
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600 full qualified domain name, FQDN. You should have your FQDN in the |
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606 The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems. |
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608 *** Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails. |
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610 If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not |
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611 representable", then this could happen when `lukemftp' is used as the |
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612 ftp client. This was reported to happen on Debian GNU/Linux, kernel |
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613 version 2.4.3, with `lukemftp' 1.5-5, but might happen on other |
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614 systems as well. To avoid this problem, switch to using the standard |
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617 update-alternatives --config ftp |
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619 and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp. |
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621 *** JPEG images aren't displayed. |
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623 This has been reported when Emacs is built with jpeg-6a library. |
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624 Upgrading to jpeg-6b solves the problem. Configure checks for the |
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625 correct version, but this problem could occur if a binary built |
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626 against a shared libjpeg is run on a system with an older version. |
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628 *** Dired is very slow. |
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630 This could happen if invocation of the `df' program takes a long |
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631 time. Possible reasons for this include: |
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633 - ClearCase mounted filesystems (VOBs) that sometimes make `df' |
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634 response time extremely slow (dozens of seconds); |
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636 - slow automounters on some old versions of Unix; |
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640 To work around the problem, you could either (a) set the variable |
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641 `directory-free-space-program' to nil, and thus prevent Emacs from |
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642 invoking `df'; (b) use `df' from the GNU Fileutils package; or |
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643 (c) use CVS, which is Free Software, instead of ClearCase. |
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645 *** Versions of the W3 package released before Emacs 21.1 don't run |
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646 under Emacs 21. This fixed in W3 version 4.0pre.47. |
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648 *** The LDAP support rely on ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 2. |
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650 It can fail to work with ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 1. |
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651 Version 1 of OpenLDAP is now deprecated. If you are still using it, |
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652 please upgrade to version 2. As a temporary workaround, remove |
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653 argument "-x" from the variable `ldap-ldapsearch-args'. |
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655 *** ps-print commands fail to find prologue files ps-prin*.ps. |
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657 This can happen if you use an old version of X-Symbol package: it |
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658 defines compatibility functions which trick ps-print into thinking it |
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659 runs in XEmacs, and look for the prologue files in a wrong directory. |
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661 The solution is to upgrade X-Symbol to a later version. |
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663 *** On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors |
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664 from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some |
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665 shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support. |
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666 These errors mean Emacs has been linked with a library whose shared |
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667 library is not in the default search path of the dynamic linker. |
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669 Similar problems could prevent Emacs from building, since the build |
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670 process invokes Emacs several times. |
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672 On many systems, it is possible to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your |
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673 environment to specify additional directories where shared libraries |
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674 can be found. |
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676 Other systems allow to set LD_RUN_PATH in a similar way, but before |
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677 Emacs is linked. With LD_RUN_PATH set, the linker will include a |
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678 specified run-time search path in the executable. |
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681 linking. Specifically, on SGI Irix 6.5, crashes were reported with |
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682 backtraces like this: |
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685 0 strcmp(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) ["/xlv22/ficus-jan23/work/irix/lib/libc/libc_n32_M3_ns/strings/strcmp.s":35, 0xfb7e480] |
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686 1 general_find_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) |
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690 3 lazy_text_resolve(0xd18, 0x1a3, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) |
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702 *** You request inverse video, and the first Emacs frame is in inverse |
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705 This can happen if you have an old version of the custom library in |
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711 This can happen if you compiled the Ispell program to use ASCII |
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716 To see whether your Ispell program supports 8-bit characters, type |
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721 and look in the output for the string "NO8BIT". If Ispell says |
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722 "!NO8BIT (8BIT)", your speller supports 8-bit characters; otherwise it |
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725 To rebuild Ispell with 8-bit character support, edit the local.h file |
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726 in the Ispell distribution and make sure it does _not_ define NO8BIT. |
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727 Then rebuild the speller. |
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729 Another possible cause for "misalignment" error messages is that the |
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730 version of Ispell installed on your machine is old. Upgrade. |
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732 Yet another possibility is that you are trying to spell-check a word |
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736 spelling and the dictionary used by Ispell conform to each other. |
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740 can cause this error. Remove that file, execute `ispell-kill-ispell' |
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743 * Runtime problems related to font handling |
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747 *** This can occur when two different versions of FontConfig are used. |
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748 For example, XFree86 4.3.0 has one version and Gnome usually comes |
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749 with a newer version. Emacs compiled with Gtk+ will then use the |
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750 newer version. In most cases the problem can be temporarily fixed by |
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751 stopping the application that has the error (it can be Emacs or any |
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753 application again. If removing ~/.fonts.cache-1 and restarting |
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755 same version of FontConfig as the rest of the system uses. For KDE, |
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756 it is sufficient to recompile Qt. |
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758 *** Some fonts have a missing glyph and no default character. This is |
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760 fonts, such as Lucida but Emacs sets the display table for the unibyte |
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761 and Latin-1 version of this character to display a space. |
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763 *** Some of the fonts called for in your fontset may not exist on your |
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764 X server. |
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766 Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs |
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768 many different fonts, collected into a fontset. You can remedy the |
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769 problem by installing additional fonts. |
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771 The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can |
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772 display all the characters Emacs supports. The etl-unicode collection |
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773 of fonts (available from <URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/> and |
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775 fonts that can display many Unicode characters; they can also be used |
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776 by ps-print and ps-mule to print Unicode characters. |
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780 You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution |
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781 or the etl-unicode collection (see above). |
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783 ** Under X, an unexpected monospace font is used as the default font. |
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785 When compiled with XFT, Emacs tries to use a default font named |
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786 "monospace". This is a "virtual font", which the operating system |
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787 (Fontconfig) redirects to a suitable font such as DejaVu Sans Mono. |
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788 On some systems, there exists a font that is actually named Monospace, |
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794 If you encounter this problem, set the default font to a specific font |
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795 in your .Xresources or initialization file. For instance, you can put |
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798 Emacs.font: DejaVu Sans Mono 12 |
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802 This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller than |
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808 You might be getting scalable fonts instead of precomputed bitmaps. |
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809 Known scalable font directories are "Type1" and "Speedo". A font |
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810 directory contains scalable fonts if it contains the file |
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813 If this is so, re-order your X windows font path to put the scalable |
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816 With some X servers, it may be necessary to take the scalable font |
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817 directories out of your path entirely, at least for Emacs 19.26. |
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818 Changes in the future may make this unnecessary. |
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822 By far the most frequent cause of this is a parenthesis `(' or a brace |
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823 `{' in column zero. Font Lock assumes that such a paren is outside of |
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824 any comment or string. This is of course not true in general, but the |
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825 vast majority of well-formatted program source files don't have such |
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826 parens, and therefore this assumption is used to allow optimizations |
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827 in Font Lock's syntactical analysis. These optimizations avoid some |
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828 pathological cases where jit-lock, the Just-in-Time fontification |
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829 introduced with Emacs 21.1, could significantly slow down scrolling |
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833 Beginning with version 22.1, a parenthesis or a brace in column zero |
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835 to indicate that it could interfere with Font Lock (and also with |
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836 indentation) and should be moved or escaped with a backslash. |
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838 If you don't use large buffers, or have a very fast machine which |
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839 makes the delays insignificant, you can avoid the incorrect |
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840 fontification by setting the variable |
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841 `font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function' to a nil value. (This must |
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842 be done _after_ turning on Font Lock.) |
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844 Another alternative is to avoid a paren in column zero. For example, |
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845 in a Lisp string you could precede the paren with a backslash. |
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847 ** With certain fonts, when the cursor appears on a character, the |
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848 character doesn't appear--you get a solid box instead. |
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850 One user on a Linux-based GNU system reported that this problem went |
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851 away with installation of a new X server. The failing server was |
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852 XFree86 3.1.1. XFree86 3.1.2 works. |
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854 ** Emacs pauses for several seconds when changing the default font. |
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856 This has been reported for fvwm 2.2.5 and the window manager of KDE |
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857 2.1. The reason for the pause is Xt waiting for a ConfigureNotify |
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858 event from the window manager, which the window manager doesn't send. |
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859 Xt stops waiting after a default timeout of usually 5 seconds. |
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861 A workaround for this is to add something like |
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863 emacs.waitForWM: false |
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865 to your X resources. Alternatively, add `(wait-for-wm . nil)' to a |
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866 frame's parameter list, like this: |
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868 (modify-frame-parameters nil '((wait-for-wm . nil))) |
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870 (this should go into your `.emacs' file). |
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872 ** Underlines appear at the wrong position. |
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874 This is caused by fonts having a wrong UNDERLINE_POSITION property. |
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875 Examples are the font 7x13 on XFree prior to version 4.1, or the jmk |
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876 neep font from the Debian xfonts-jmk package prior to version 3.0.17. |
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877 To circumvent this problem, set x-use-underline-position-properties |
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878 to nil in your `.emacs'. |
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880 To see what is the value of UNDERLINE_POSITION defined by the font, |
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881 type `xlsfonts -lll FONT' and look at the font's UNDERLINE_POSITION |
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882 property. |
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884 ** When using Exceed, fonts sometimes appear too tall. |
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886 When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified |
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887 (either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources) |
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888 then the fonts may appear "too tall". The actual character sizes are |
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892 To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution" |
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893 feature (in the font part of the configuration window). |
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895 ** Subscript/superscript text in TeX is hard to read. |
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903 the following variables: tex-font-script-display (how much to |
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905 normal); tex-suscript-height-minimum (minimum height). |
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916 XFree86 4 contains many fonts in iso10646-1 encoding which have | |
51316 | 917 minimal character repertoires (whereas the encoding part of the font |
918 name is meant to be a reasonable indication of the repertoire | |
919 according to the XLFD spec). Emacs may choose one of these to display | |
920 characters from the mule-unicode charsets and then typically won't be | |
921 able to find the glyphs to display many characters. (Check with C-u | |
922 C-x = .) To avoid this, you may need to use a fontset which sets the | |
923 font for the mule-unicode sets explicitly. E.g. to use GNU unifont, | |
924 include in the fontset spec: | |
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926 mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ | |
927 mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ | |
928 mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1 | |
929 | |
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932 Emacs directly supports the Unicode BMP whose code points are in the |
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933 ranges 0000-33ff and e000-ffff, and indirectly supports the parts of |
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934 CJK characters belonging to these legacy charsets: |
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936 GB2312, Big5, JISX0208, JISX0212, JISX0213-1, JISX0213-2, KSC5601 |
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938 The latter support is done in Utf-Translate-Cjk mode (turned on by |
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941 in Chinese-GB, most of them are decoded into chinese-gb2312. |
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943 If you read UTF-8 data with code points outside these ranges, the | |
944 characters appear in the buffer as raw bytes of the original UTF-8 | |
945 (composed into a single quasi-character) and they will be written back | |
946 correctly as UTF-8, assuming you don't break the composed sequences. | |
947 If you read such characters from UTF-16 or UTF-7 data, they are | |
948 substituted with the Unicode `replacement character', and you lose | |
949 information. | |
950 | |
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951 ** Mule-UCS loads very slowly. |
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953 Changes to Emacs internals interact badly with Mule-UCS's `un-define' | |
954 library, which is the usual interface to Mule-UCS. Apply the | |
955 following patch to Mule-UCS 0.84 and rebuild it. That will help, | |
956 though loading will still be slower than in Emacs 20. (Some | |
957 distributions, such as Debian, may already have applied such a patch.) | |
958 | |
959 --- lisp/un-define.el 6 Mar 2001 22:41:38 -0000 1.30 | |
960 +++ lisp/un-define.el 19 Apr 2002 18:34:26 -0000 | |
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46677 | 963 (mapcar |
964 (lambda (x) | |
965 - (mapcar | |
966 - (lambda (y) | |
967 - (mucs-define-coding-system | |
968 - (nth 0 y) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y) | |
969 - (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y) (nth 6 y)) | |
970 - (coding-system-put (car y) 'alias-coding-systems (list (car x)))) | |
971 - (cdr x))) | |
972 + (if (fboundp 'register-char-codings) | |
973 + ;; Mule 5, where we don't need the eol-type specified and | |
974 + ;; register-char-codings may be very slow for these coding | |
975 + ;; system definitions. | |
976 + (let ((y (cadr x))) | |
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981 + (lambda (y) | |
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46677 | 986 + (cdr x))) |
987 `((utf-8 | |
988 (utf-8-unix | |
989 ?u "UTF-8 coding system" | |
990 | |
991 Note that Emacs has native support for Unicode, roughly equivalent to | |
992 Mule-UCS's, so you may not need it. | |
993 | |
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1000 make it compiled by the latest Emacs. |
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1027 other sizes as well, your text is corrupted, probably through software |
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1028 that is not 8-bit clean. If the problem goes away with another font |
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1029 size, it's probably because some fonts pretend to be ISO-8859-1 fonts |
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1030 when they are really ASCII fonts. In particular the schumacher-clean |
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36813 | 1046 This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free |
51132 | 1047 slots now. The current built-in Unicode support is actually more |
1048 flexible. (Use option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' if you need CJK | |
1049 support.) Files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode aren't | |
1050 generally read correctly by Emacs 21. | |
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1054 The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does | |
1055 (standard-display-european t) | |
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1063 *** You "lose characters" after typing Compose Character key. |
25853 | 1064 |
1065 This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym | |
1066 Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11 | |
1067 character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key | |
1068 to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap. | |
1069 | |
1070 For example, here's one way to turn it into a Meta key: | |
1071 | |
1072 xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Meta_L" | |
1073 | |
1074 If all users at your site of a particular keyboard prefer Meta to | |
1075 Compose, you can make the remapping happen automatically by adding the | |
1076 xmodmap command to the xdm setup script for that display. | |
1077 | |
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1082 *** C-SPC fails to work on Fedora GNU/Linux (or with fcitx input method). |
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1086 from using the C-SPC key for `set-mark-command'. |
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1096 The same problem happens on any other system if you are using fcitx |
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1098 you want to use fcitx with Emacs, you have two choices. Toggle fcitx |
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1104 See if your X server is set up to use this as a command |
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1109 This happens because some X configurations assign the Ctrl-Shift-t |
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1113 purposes. |
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1116 you want to be able to bind one of these key sequences within Emacs. |
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1118 *** Under X, C-v and/or other keys don't work. |
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1128 This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know |
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1130 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work. |
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1135 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it | |
1136 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is | |
1137 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c | |
1138 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event | |
1139 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you | |
1140 have made the key binding correctly. | |
1141 | |
1142 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may | |
1143 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X | |
1144 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by | |
1145 default. | |
1146 | |
1147 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows: | |
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1149 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L' | |
1150 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R' | |
1151 | |
1152 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those | |
1153 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you | |
1154 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any | |
1155 modifier bit not otherwise used. | |
1156 | |
1157 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other | |
1158 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or | |
1159 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the | |
1160 commands show above to make them modifier keys. | |
1161 | |
1162 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt | |
1163 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs. | |
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1167 *** Gnome: Emacs receives input directly from the keyboard, bypassing XIM. |
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1169 This seems to happen when gnome-settings-daemon version 2.12 or later |
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1171 input through XIM without any problem. Furthermore, this seems only |
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1173 example, work fine. A bug report has been filed in the Gnome |
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1174 bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357032 |
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1176 *** Gnome: Emacs' xterm-mouse-mode doesn't work on the Gnome terminal. |
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1178 A symptom of this bug is that double-clicks insert a control sequence |
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1179 into the buffer. The reason this happens is an apparent |
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1180 incompatibility of the Gnome terminal with Xterm, which also affects |
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1181 other programs using the Xterm mouse interface. A problem report has |
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1182 been filed. |
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1184 *** KDE: When running on KDE, colors or fonts are not as specified for Emacs, |
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1185 or messed up. |
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1187 For example, you could see background you set for Emacs only in the |
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1188 empty portions of the Emacs display, while characters have some other |
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1191 This happens because KDE's defaults apply its color and font |
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1192 definitions even to applications that weren't compiled for KDE. The |
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1193 solution is to uncheck the "Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE apps" |
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1194 option in Preferences->Look&Feel->Style (KDE 2). In KDE 3, this option |
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1198 applications, but not to Emacs, you could modify the file `Emacs.ad' |
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1199 (should be in the `/usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/' directory) |
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1201 Emacs. For example, make sure the following resources are either not |
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1205 Emacs.default.attributeBackground |
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1219 while, Emacs may print a message: |
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1223 A workaround is to not use `klipper'. An upgrade to the `klipper' that |
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1228 This can happen if you have "Allow Primary Windows On Top" enabled which |
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1230 To change, go in to "Desktop Controls" -> "Window Style Manager" |
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1231 and uncheck "Allow Primary Windows On Top". |
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1239 XawM and the few other derivatives of Xaw. So when you compile with |
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1240 one of these, it may not work to dynamically link with another one. |
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1241 For example, strange problems, such as Emacs exiting when you type |
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1242 "C-x 1", were reported when Emacs compiled with Xaw3d and libXaw was |
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1243 used with neXtaw at run time. |
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1245 The solution is to rebuild Emacs with the toolkit version you actually |
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1246 want to use, or set LD_PRELOAD to preload the same toolkit version you |
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1247 built Emacs with. |
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1249 *** Open Motif: Problems with file dialogs in Emacs built with Open Motif. |
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1251 When Emacs 21 is built with Open Motif 2.1, it can happen that the |
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1252 graphical file dialog boxes do not work properly. The "OK", "Filter" |
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1253 and "Cancel" buttons do not respond to mouse clicks. Dragging the |
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1254 file dialog window usually causes the buttons to work again. |
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1256 The solution is to use LessTif instead. LessTif is a free replacement |
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1257 for Motif. See the file INSTALL for information on how to do this. |
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1259 Another workaround is not to use the mouse to trigger file prompts, |
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1260 but to use the keyboard. This way, you will be prompted for a file in |
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1261 the minibuffer instead of a graphical file dialog. |
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1263 *** LessTif: Problems in Emacs built with LessTif. |
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1265 The problems seem to depend on the version of LessTif and the Motif |
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1266 emulation for which it is set up. |
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1268 Only the Motif 1.2 emulation seems to be stable enough in LessTif. |
77139 | 1269 LessTif 0.92-17's Motif 1.2 emulation seems to work okay on FreeBSD. |
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1270 On GNU/Linux systems, lesstif-0.92.6 configured with "./configure |
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1271 --enable-build-12 --enable-default-12" is reported to be the most |
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1272 successful. The binary GNU/Linux package |
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1273 lesstif-devel-0.92.0-1.i386.rpm was reported to have problems with |
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1274 menu placement. |
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1276 On some systems, even with Motif 1.2 emulation, Emacs occasionally |
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1277 locks up, grabbing all mouse and keyboard events. We still don't know |
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1278 what causes these problems; they are not reproducible by Emacs |
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1279 developers. |
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1281 *** Motif: The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color. |
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1283 This has been observed to result from the following X resource: |
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1285 Emacs*default.attributeFont: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* |
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1287 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we |
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1288 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can |
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1289 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing |
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1290 the resource prevents the problem. |
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1292 ** General X problems |
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1294 *** Redisplay using X11 is much slower than previous Emacs versions. |
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1296 We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when |
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1297 scroll bars are on the left. We don't know why this happens. If this |
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1298 happens to you, you can work around it by putting the scroll bars |
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1299 on the right (as they were in Emacs 19). |
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1301 Here's how to do this: |
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1303 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'right) |
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1305 If you're not sure whether (or how much) this problem affects you, |
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1306 try that and see how much difference it makes. To set things back |
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1307 to normal, do |
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1309 (set-scroll-bar-mode 'left) |
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1311 *** Error messages about undefined colors on X. |
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1313 The messages might say something like this: |
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1315 Unable to load color "grey95" |
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1317 (typically, in the `*Messages*' buffer), or something like this: |
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1319 Error while displaying tooltip: (error Undefined color lightyellow) |
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1321 These problems could happen if some other X program has used up too |
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1322 many colors of the X palette, leaving Emacs with insufficient system |
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1323 resources to load all the colors it needs. |
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1325 A solution is to exit the offending X programs before starting Emacs. |
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1328 X configuration file is incorrect, or the rgb.txt file is not where | |
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1331 *** Improving performance with slow X connections. |
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1333 There are several ways to improve this performance, any subset of which can |
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1334 be carried out at the same time: |
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1337 language you use, you can improve performance on WAN links by using |
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1338 the X resource useXIM to turn off use of XIM. This does not affect |
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1342 2) If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider |
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1343 switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar. Adding the |
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1344 following forms to your .emacs file will accomplish that, but only |
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1345 after the the initial frame is displayed: |
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1352 file: |
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1354 Emacs.verticalScrollBars: off |
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1355 Emacs.menuBar: off |
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1359 forwarded X connection (ssh -XC remotehostname emacs ...). |
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1362 to the low bandwidth X extension in most modern X servers, which |
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1363 improves performance dramatically, at the slight expense of correctness |
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1364 of the X protocol. lbxproxy acheives the performance gain by grouping |
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1368 -noatomsfile -nowinattr -cheaterrors -cheatevents |
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1369 Note that the -nograbcmap option is known to cause problems. |
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1370 For more about lbxproxy, see: |
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1378 *** Emacs gives the error, Couldn't find per display information. |
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1380 This can result if the X server runs out of memory because Emacs uses |
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1381 a large number of fonts. On systems where this happens, C-h h is |
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1382 likely to cause it. |
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1384 We do not know of a way to prevent the problem. |
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1386 *** Emacs does not notice when you release the mouse. |
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1388 There are reports that this happened with (some) Microsoft mice and |
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1389 that replacing the mouse made it stop. |
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1391 *** You can't select from submenus (in the X toolkit version). |
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1393 On certain systems, mouse-tracking and selection in top-level menus |
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1394 works properly with the X toolkit, but neither of them works when you |
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1395 bring up a submenu (such as Bookmarks or Compare or Apply Patch, in |
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1396 the Files menu). |
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1398 This works on most systems. There is speculation that the failure is |
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1399 due to bugs in old versions of X toolkit libraries, but no one really |
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1400 knows. If someone debugs this and finds the precise cause, perhaps a |
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1401 workaround can be found. |
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1403 *** An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid |
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1404 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'. |
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1406 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as |
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1407 emacs*Cursor: black |
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1408 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something |
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1409 that isn't a color.) |
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1411 The fix is to correct your X resources. |
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1413 *** Slow startup on X11R6 with X windows. |
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1415 If Emacs takes two minutes to start up on X11R6, see if your X |
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1416 resources specify any Adobe fonts. That causes the type-1 font |
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1417 renderer to start up, even if the font you asked for is not a type-1 |
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1418 font. |
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1420 One way to avoid this problem is to eliminate the type-1 fonts from |
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1421 your font path, like this: |
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1423 xset -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ |
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1425 *** Pull-down menus appear in the wrong place, in the toolkit version of Emacs. |
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1427 An X resource of this form can cause the problem: |
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1429 Emacs*geometry: 80x55+0+0 |
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1431 This resource is supposed to apply, and does apply, to the menus |
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1432 individually as well as to Emacs frames. If that is not what you |
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1433 want, rewrite the resource. |
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1435 To check thoroughly for such resource specifications, use `xrdb |
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1436 -query' to see what resources the X server records, and also look at |
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1437 the user's ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-* files. |
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1439 *** Emacs running under X Windows does not handle mouse clicks. |
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1440 *** `emacs -geometry 80x20' finds a file named `80x20'. |
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1442 One cause of such problems is having (setq term-file-prefix nil) in | |
1443 your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in | |
1444 the environment. | |
1445 | |
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1446 *** Emacs fails to get default settings from X Windows server. |
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1448 The X library in X11R4 has a bug; it interchanges the 2nd and 3rd | |
1449 arguments to XGetDefaults. Define the macro XBACKWARDS in config.h to | |
1450 tell Emacs to compensate for this. | |
1451 | |
1452 I don't believe there is any way Emacs can determine for itself | |
1453 whether this problem is present on a given system. | |
1454 | |
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1455 *** X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname. |
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1457 People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs | |
1458 not to work with X Windows if DISPLAY is set using a host name. But | |
1459 the problem does not occur if DISPLAY is set to `unix:0.0'. I think | |
1460 the bug has to do with SIGIO or FIONREAD. | |
1461 | |
1462 You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil). | |
1463 However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that | |
1464 you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g. | |
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1468 (setq x-sigio-bug t) | |
1469 | |
1470 in your site-init.el file. | |
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1472 *** Prevent double pastes in X |
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1474 The problem: a region, such as a command, is pasted twice when you copy |
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1475 it with your mouse from GNU Emacs to an xterm or an RXVT shell in X. |
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1476 The solution: try the following in your X configuration file, |
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1477 /etc/X11/xorg.conf This should enable both PS/2 and USB mice for |
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1478 single copies. You do not need any other drivers or options. |
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1480 Section "InputDevice" |
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1481 Identifier "Generic Mouse" |
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1482 Driver "mousedev" |
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1483 Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" |
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1488 ** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen. |
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1490 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being | |
1491 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes | |
1492 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long | |
1493 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a | |
1494 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a | |
1495 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible | |
1496 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is | |
1497 easy, for a person with at least half a brain. | |
1498 | |
1499 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place: | |
1500 | |
1501 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control | |
1502 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use | |
1503 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible | |
1504 | |
1505 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether | |
1506 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to | |
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1508 you may select "No XOFF" in the setup menu.) Sometimes there is an |
25853 | 1509 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off |
1510 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow | |
1511 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on. | |
1512 | |
1513 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it | |
1514 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled | |
1515 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud | |
1516 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print | |
1517 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if | |
1518 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If | |
1519 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a | |
1520 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard | |
1521 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type. | |
1522 | |
1523 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just | |
1524 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control | |
1525 codes. You might as well try it. | |
1526 | |
1527 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer | |
1528 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the | |
1529 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how | |
1530 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow | |
1531 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard), | |
1532 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator | |
1533 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic | |
1534 measures can make Emacs semi-work. | |
1535 | |
1536 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system | |
1537 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x | |
1538 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are | |
1539 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x | |
1540 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow | |
1541 control handling.) | |
1542 | |
1543 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them | |
1544 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose | |
1545 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement | |
1546 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all | |
1547 other control characters are already used by emacs. | |
1548 | |
1549 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled, | |
1550 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in | |
1551 order to continue. | |
1552 | |
1553 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a | |
1554 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function | |
1555 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme | |
1556 automatically. Here is an example: | |
1557 | |
1558 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131") | |
1559 | |
1560 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled | |
1561 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control | |
1562 manually. | |
1563 | |
1564 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the | |
1565 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow | |
1566 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad | |
1567 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming | |
1568 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some | |
1569 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I | |
1570 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake | |
1571 of inferior systems. | |
1572 | |
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1575 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow | |
1576 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your | |
1577 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator | |
1578 that wants to use flow control. | |
1579 | |
1580 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control. | |
1581 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without | |
1582 flow control, as described in the preceding section. | |
1583 | |
1584 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters | |
1585 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above | |
1586 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\. | |
1587 | |
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25853 | 1589 |
1590 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that | |
1591 terminal is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing | |
1592 the combination of features specified for that terminal. | |
1593 | |
1594 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters | |
1595 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression | |
1596 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all | |
1597 terminal output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do | |
1598 what makes the screen update wrong, and look at the file | |
1599 and decode the characters using the manual for the terminal. | |
1600 There are several possibilities: | |
1601 | |
1602 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual. | |
1603 | |
1604 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you | |
1605 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong. | |
1606 | |
1607 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect | |
1608 of the terminal behavior not described in an obvious way | |
1609 by termcap. | |
1610 | |
1611 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for | |
1612 Emacs to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior | |
1613 and other terminals that behave subtly differently but are | |
1614 classified the same by termcap; or else find an algorithm for | |
1615 Emacs to use that avoids the difference. Such changes must be | |
1616 tested on many kinds of terminals. | |
1617 | |
1618 3) The termcap entry is wrong. | |
1619 | |
1620 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes | |
1621 that are known to be needed in commonly used termcap entries | |
1622 for certain terminals. | |
1623 | |
1624 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be | |
1625 right for any terminal with the termcap entry you were using. | |
1626 | |
1627 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed | |
1628 in termcap.c, tparam.c, term.c, scroll.c, cm.c or dispnew.c. | |
1629 | |
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1632 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow |
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1633 control characters to the remote system to which they connect. |
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1634 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow |
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1635 control on the local system. Sometimes `rlogin -8' will avoid this |
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1636 problem. |
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1638 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host |
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1639 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the |
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1640 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems, |
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1641 "stty start u stop u" will do this. On some systems, use |
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1642 "stty -ixon" instead. |
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1644 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way |
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1645 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and |
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1646 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell. |
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1648 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type |
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1649 M-x enable-flow-control at the beginning of your emacs session, or |
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1650 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the |
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1651 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind): |
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1653 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131") |
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1655 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more |
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1656 info. |
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1658 ** Output from Control-V is slow. |
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1660 On many bit-map terminals, scrolling operations are fairly slow. | |
1661 Often the termcap entry for the type of terminal in use fails | |
1662 to inform Emacs of this. The two lines at the bottom of the screen | |
1663 before a Control-V command are supposed to appear at the top after | |
1664 the Control-V command. If Emacs thinks scrolling the lines is fast, | |
1665 it will scroll them to the top of the screen. | |
1666 | |
1667 If scrolling is slow but Emacs thinks it is fast, the usual reason is | |
1668 that the termcap entry for the terminal you are using does not | |
1669 specify any padding time for the `al' and `dl' strings. Emacs | |
1670 concludes that these operations take only as much time as it takes to | |
1671 send the commands at whatever line speed you are using. You must | |
1672 fix the termcap entry to specify, for the `al' and `dl', as much | |
1673 time as the operations really take. | |
1674 | |
1675 Currently Emacs thinks in terms of serial lines which send characters | |
1676 at a fixed rate, so that any operation which takes time for the | |
1677 terminal to execute must also be padded. With bit-map terminals | |
1678 operated across networks, often the network provides some sort of | |
1679 flow control so that padding is never needed no matter how slow | |
1680 an operation is. You must still specify a padding time if you want | |
1681 Emacs to realize that the operation takes a long time. This will | |
1682 cause padding characters to be sent unnecessarily, but they do | |
1683 not really cost much. They will be transmitted while the scrolling | |
1684 is happening and then discarded quickly by the terminal. | |
1685 | |
1686 Most bit-map terminals provide commands for inserting or deleting | |
1687 multiple lines at once. Define the `AL' and `DL' strings in the | |
1688 termcap entry to say how to do these things, and you will have | |
1689 fast output without wasted padding characters. These strings should | |
1690 each contain a single %-spec saying how to send the number of lines | |
1691 to be scrolled. These %-specs are like those in the termcap | |
1692 `cm' string. | |
1693 | |
1694 You should also define the `IC' and `DC' strings if your terminal | |
1695 has a command to insert or delete multiple characters. These | |
1696 take the number of positions to insert or delete as an argument. | |
1697 | |
1698 A `cs' string to set the scrolling region will reduce the amount | |
1699 of motion you see on the screen when part of the screen is scrolled. | |
1700 | |
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1701 ** You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters. |
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1703 Put `stty dec' in your .login file and your problems will disappear | |
1704 after a day or two. | |
1705 | |
1706 The choice of Backspace for erasure was based on confusion, caused by | |
1707 the fact that backspacing causes erasure (later, when you type another | |
1708 character) on most display terminals. But it is a mistake. Deletion | |
1709 of text is not the same thing as backspacing followed by failure to | |
1710 overprint. I do not wish to propagate this confusion by conforming | |
1711 to it. | |
1712 | |
1713 For this reason, I believe `stty dec' is the right mode to use, | |
1714 and I have designed Emacs to go with that. If there were a thousand | |
1715 other control characters, I would define Control-h to delete as well; | |
1716 but there are not very many other control characters, and I think | |
1717 that providing the most mnemonic possible Help character is more | |
1718 important than adapting to people who don't use `stty dec'. | |
1719 | |
1720 If you are obstinate about confusing buggy overprinting with deletion, | |
1721 you can redefine Backspace in your .emacs file: | |
1722 (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char) | |
1723 You can probably access help-command via f1. | |
1724 | |
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1727 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal |
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1728 emulators, but this support relies on the terminfo or termcap database |
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1729 entry to specify that the display supports color. Emacs looks at the |
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1730 "Co" capability for the terminal to find out how many colors are |
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1731 supported; it should be non-zero to activate the color support within |
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1733 uses terminfo, the name of the capability equivalent to "Co" is |
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1736 In addition to the "Co" capability, Emacs needs the "op" (for |
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1737 ``original pair'') capability, which tells how to switch the terminal |
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1738 back to the default foreground and background colors. Emacs will not |
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1739 use colors if this capability is not defined. If your terminal entry |
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1740 doesn't provide such a capability, try using the ANSI standard escape |
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1741 sequence \E[00m (that is, define a new termcap/terminfo entry and make |
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1742 it use your current terminal's entry plus \E[00m for the "op" |
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1745 Finally, the "NC" capability (terminfo name: "ncv") tells Emacs which |
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1746 attributes cannot be used with colors. Setting this capability |
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1748 this capability to `0' (zero) and see if that helps. |
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1750 Emacs uses the database entry for the terminal whose name is the value |
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1751 of the environment variable TERM. With `xterm', a common terminal |
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1758 modes for getting colors on a tty. For example, --color=ansi8 sets up |
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1762 Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on |
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1764 recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing "M-x |
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1765 global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the variable |
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1766 `global-font-lock-mode'. |
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1775 read corrupted process output. |
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1777 *** GNU/Linux: Remote access to CVS with SSH causes file corruption. |
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1779 If you access a remote CVS repository via SSH, files may be corrupted |
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1780 due to bad interaction between CVS, SSH, and libc. |
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1782 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it |
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1783 executable, and set CVS_RSH environment variable to the file name of |
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1784 the script: |
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1787 exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null) |
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1788 exec ssh "$@" |
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1790 *** GNU/Linux: On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through |
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1791 5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault. |
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1793 This problem happens if libc defines the symbol __malloc_initialized. |
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1794 One known solution is to upgrade to a newer libc version. 5.4.33 is |
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1795 known to work. |
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1797 *** GNU/Linux: After upgrading to a newer version of Emacs, |
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1798 the Meta key stops working. |
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1800 This was reported to happen on a GNU/Linux system distributed by |
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1801 Mandrake. The reason is that the previous version of Emacs was |
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1802 modified by Mandrake to make the Alt key act as the Meta key, on a |
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1804 modifier. A user who started using a newer version of Emacs, which |
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1805 was not hacked by Mandrake, expected the Alt key to continue to act as |
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1806 Meta, and was astonished when that didn't happen. |
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1808 The solution is to find out what key on your keyboard produces the Meta |
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1809 modifier, and use that key instead. Try all of the keys to the left |
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1810 and to the right of the space bar, together with the `x' key, and see |
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1811 which combination produces "M-x" in the echo area. You can also use |
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1812 the `xmodmap' utility to show all the keys which produce a Meta |
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1815 xmodmap -pk | egrep -i "meta|alt" |
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1817 A more convenient way of finding out which keys produce a Meta modifier |
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1818 is to use the `xkbprint' utility, if it's available on your system: |
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1820 xkbprint 0:0 /tmp/k.ps |
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1822 This produces a PostScript file `/tmp/k.ps' with a picture of your |
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1823 keyboard; printing that file on a PostScript printer will show what |
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1824 keys can serve as Meta. |
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1826 The `xkeycaps' also shows a visual representation of the current |
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1827 keyboard settings. It also allows to modify them. |
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1831 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that |
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1832 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'. |
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1834 This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts. |
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1835 Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to |
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1836 improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both |
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1837 networked and non-networked machines. |
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1839 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root. |
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1841 **** Networked Case. |
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1843 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both |
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1844 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this |
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1845 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name): |
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1847 127.0.0.1 HOSTNAME |
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1849 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following |
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1852 order hosts, bind |
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1855 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be |
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1856 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local |
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1857 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections |
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1858 dynamically allocate ip addresses). |
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1860 **** Non-Networked Case. |
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1862 The solution described in the networked case applies here as well. |
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1863 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a |
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1864 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command |
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1865 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts' |
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1866 file is not necessary with this approach. |
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1868 *** GNU/Linux: Emacs on a tty switches the cursor to large blinking block. |
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1870 This was reported to happen on some GNU/Linux systems which use |
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1871 ncurses version 5.0, but could be relevant for other versions as well. |
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1872 These versions of ncurses come with a `linux' terminfo entry, where |
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1873 the "cvvis" capability (termcap "vs") is defined as "\E[?25h\E[?8c" |
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1874 (show cursor, change size). This escape sequence switches on a |
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1875 blinking hardware text-mode cursor whose size is a full character |
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1881 the colors of the character at point, so what you see is a block |
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1887 `linux-term' to make both the "cnorm" and "cvvis" capabilities send |
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1888 the sequence "\E[?25h\E[?17;0;64c", and then run "tic linux-term" to |
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1909 Emacs uses symbolic links to implement file locks. In a directory |
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1910 with +t bit, the directory owner becomes the owner of the symbolic |
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1911 link, so that it cannot be removed by anyone else. |
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1913 If you don't like those useless links, you can let Emacs not to using |
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1914 file lock by adding #undef CLASH_DETECTION to config.h. |
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1918 By default, neither Alt nor any other key acts as a Meta key on |
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1919 FreeBSD, but this can be changed using kbdcontrol(1). Dump the |
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1920 current keymap to a file with the command |
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1924 Edit emacs.kbd, and give the key you want to be the Meta key the |
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1925 definition `meta'. For instance, if your keyboard has a ``Windows'' |
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1926 key with scan code 105, change the line for scan code 105 in emacs.kbd |
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1931 to make the Windows key the Meta key. Load the new keymap with |
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1933 $ kbdcontrol -l emacs.kbd |
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1937 *** HP/UX : Shell mode gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous". |
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1939 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says: |
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1941 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to |
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1942 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then |
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1943 tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places, |
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1944 but tty is giving it back 3. |
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1946 The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a single |
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1947 word: |
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1949 if (`tty` == "/dev/console") |
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1955 Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc |
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1956 and into .login. |
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1958 *** HP/UX: `Pid xxx killed due to text modification or page I/O error'. |
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1960 On HP/UX, you can get that error when the Emacs executable is on an NFS |
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1961 file system. HP/UX responds this way if it tries to swap in a page and |
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1965 If this happens to you, extend the timeout period. |
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1967 *** HP/UX: The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps |
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1970 This is because HP-UX defines the modifiers wrong in X. Here is a |
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1971 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE |
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1972 configures the X server. |
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1974 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF |
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1976 keysym Alt_R = Meta_R |
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1977 EOF |
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1979 xmodmap - << EOF |
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1983 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch |
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1988 Emacs built with Motif. |
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1990 This problem resulted from a bug in GCC 2.4.5. Newer GCC versions |
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1991 such as 2.7.0 fix the problem. |
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1993 *** HP/UX: Emacs does not recognize the AltGr key. |
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1999 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF |
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2002 EOF |
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2004 xmodmap - << EOF |
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2005 clear mod1 |
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2006 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol |
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2007 add mod1 = Meta_L |
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2008 keysym Meta_R = Mode_switch |
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2009 add mod2 = Mode_switch |
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2010 EOF |
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2013 *** HP/UX 11.0: Emacs makes HP/UX 11.0 crash. |
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2015 This is a bug in HPUX; HPUX patch PHKL_16260 is said to fix it. |
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2017 ** AIX |
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2019 *** AIX: Trouble using ptys. |
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2021 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly. |
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2022 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly. |
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2024 *** AIXterm: Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal. |
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2026 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines: |
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2028 *aixterm.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7f) |
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2029 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^? |
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2031 This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127). |
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2033 *** AIX: If linking fails because libXbsd isn't found, check if you |
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2034 are compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5'. If |
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2035 so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure |
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2036 Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'. |
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2038 *** AIX 4.3.x or 4.4: Compiling fails. |
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2040 This could happen if you use /bin/c89 as your compiler, instead of |
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2041 the default `cc'. /bin/c89 treats certain warnings, such as benign |
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2042 redefinitions of macros, as errors, and fails the build. A solution |
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2043 is to use the default compiler `cc'. |
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2045 *** AIX 4: Some programs fail when run in a Shell buffer |
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2046 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown". |
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2048 On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default. |
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2049 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal |
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2050 Definitions" to make them defined. |
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2052 ** Solaris |
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2054 We list bugs in current versions here. Solaris 2.x and 4.x are covered in the |
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2055 section on legacy systems. |
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2057 *** On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console. |
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2059 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r |
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2060 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs. |
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2062 *** Problem with remote X server on Suns. |
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2064 On a Sun, running Emacs on one machine with the X server on another |
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2065 may not work if you have used the unshared system libraries. This |
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2066 is because the unshared libraries fail to use YP for host name lookup. |
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2067 As a result, the host name you specify may not be recognized. |
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2069 *** Solaris 2,6: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame. |
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2070 |
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2071 We suspect that this is a bug in the X libraries provided by |
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2072 Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and |
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2073 makes the problem stop: |
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2074 |
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2075 105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02 |
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2076 105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03 |
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2077 106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01 |
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2078 105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01 |
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2079 |
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2080 Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06) |
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2081 suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches: |
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2082 |
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2083 106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch |
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2084 106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes |
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2085 105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch |
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2086 |
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2087 *** Solaris 7 or 8: Emacs reports a BadAtom error (from X) |
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2089 This happens when Emacs was built on some other version of Solaris. |
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2090 Rebuild it on Solaris 8. |
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2092 *** When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down' |
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2093 commands do not move the arrow in Emacs. |
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2094 |
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2095 You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit': |
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2096 |
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2097 dbxenv output_short_file_name off |
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2099 *** On Solaris, CTRL-t is ignored by Emacs when you use |
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2100 the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales). |
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2102 You can fix this by editing the file: |
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2104 /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose |
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2106 Near the bottom there is a line that reads: |
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2108 Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters |
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2110 that should read: |
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2111 |
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2112 Ctrl<T> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters |
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2113 |
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2114 Note the lower case <t>. Changing this line should make C-t work. |
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2115 |
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2116 *** On Solaris, Emacs fails to set menu-bar-update-hook on startup, with error |
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2117 "Error in menu-bar-update-hook: (error Point before start of properties)". |
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2118 This seems to be a GCC optimization bug that occurs for GCC 4.1.2 (-g |
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2119 and -g -O2) and GCC 4.2.3 (-g -O and -g -O2). You can fix this by |
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2120 compiling with GCC 4.2.3 or CC 5.7, with no optimizations. |
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2121 |
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2122 ** Irix |
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2123 |
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2124 *** Irix 6.5: Emacs crashes on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC. |
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2125 |
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2126 This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95. |
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2127 |
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2128 *** Irix: Trouble using ptys, or running out of ptys. |
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2129 |
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2130 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to |
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2131 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able |
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2132 to allocate ptys reliably. |
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2133 |
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2134 * Runtime problems specific to MS-Windows |
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2135 |
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2136 ** PATH can contain unexpanded environment variables |
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2137 |
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2138 Old releases of TCC (version 9) and 4NT (up to version 8) do not correctly |
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2139 expand App Paths entries of type REG_EXPAND_SZ. When Emacs is run from TCC |
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2140 and such an entry exists for emacs.exe, exec-path will contain the |
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2141 unexpanded entry. This has been fixed in TCC 10. For more information, |
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2142 see bug#2062. |
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2143 |
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2144 ** Setting w32-pass-rwindow-to-system and w32-pass-lwindow-to-system to nil |
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2145 does not prevent the Start menu from popping up when the left or right |
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2146 ``Windows'' key is pressed. |
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2147 |
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2148 This was reported to happen when XKeymacs is installed. At least with |
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2149 XKeymacs Version 3.47, deactivating XKeymacs when Emacs is active is |
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2150 not enough to avoid its messing with the keyboard input. Exiting |
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2151 XKeymacs completely is reported to solve the problem. |
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2152 |
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2153 ** Windows 95 and networking. |
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2154 |
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2155 To support server sockets, Emacs 22.1 loads ws2_32.dll. If this file |
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2156 is missing, all Emacs networking features are disabled. |
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2157 |
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2158 Old versions of Windows 95 may not have the required DLL. To use |
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2159 Emacs' networking features on Windows 95, you must install the |
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2160 "Windows Socket 2" update available from MicroSoft's support Web. |
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2161 |
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2162 ** Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for MS-Windows. |
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2163 |
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2164 A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this. |
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2165 Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the |
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2166 problem. |
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2167 |
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2169 | |
2170 Loading rails-mode seems to interfere with UNC path handling. This has been | |
2171 reported as a bug against both Emacs and rails-mode, so look for an updated | |
2172 rails-mode that avoids this crash, or avoid using UNC paths if using | |
2173 rails-mode. | |
2174 | |
2175 ** Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 22.3 | |
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2176 |
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2177 M-x term does not work on MS-Windows. TTY emulation on Windows is |
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2178 undocumented, and programs such as stty which are used on posix platforms |
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2179 to control tty emulation do not exist for native windows terminals. |
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2180 |
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2181 Using create-fontset-from-ascii-font or the --font startup parameter |
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2182 with a Chinese, Japanese or Korean font leads to display problems. |
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2183 Use a Latin-only font as your default font. If you want control over |
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2184 which font is used to display Chinese, Japanese or Korean character, |
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2185 use create-fontset-from-fontset-spec to define a fontset. |
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2187 Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu |
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2188 is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menus is not |
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2189 displayed at all. This is because message handling under Windows is |
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2190 synchronous, so we cannot handle repaint (or any other) messages while |
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2191 waiting for a system function to return the result of the dialog or |
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2192 pop-up menu interaction. |
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2193 |
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2194 Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text |
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2195 for menus. Help text is only available in later versions of Windows. |
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2196 |
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2197 When "ClearType" method is selected as the "method to smooth edges of |
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2198 screen fonts" (in Display Properties, Appearance tab, under |
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2199 "Effects"), there are various problems related to display of |
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2200 characters: Bold fonts can be hard to read, small portions of some |
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2201 characters could appear chopped, etc. This happens because, under |
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2202 ClearType, characters are drawn outside their advertised bounding box. |
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2203 Emacs 21 disabled the use of ClearType, whereas Emacs 22 allows it and |
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2204 has some code to enlarge the width of the bounding box. Apparently, |
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2205 this display feature needs more changes to get it 100% right. A |
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2206 workaround is to disable ClearType. |
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2207 |
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2208 There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the |
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2209 mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first |
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2210 frame. A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame |
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2211 after moving back into it. |
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2212 |
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2213 Some minor flickering still persists during mouse-tracking, although |
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2214 not as severely as in 21.1. |
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2216 An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows |
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2217 Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed. |
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2218 |
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2219 Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs. However, some |
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2220 of these input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded |
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2221 in the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1 |
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2223 input methods work with Emacs, set the keyboard coding system to the |
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2224 appropriate value after you activate the Windows input method. For |
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2225 example, if you activate the Hebrew input method, type this: |
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2227 C-x RET k hebrew-iso-8bit RET |
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2229 (Emacs ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up |
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2230 the appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do |
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2231 that yet.) In addition, to use these Windows input methods, you |
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2232 should set your "Language for non-Unicode programs" (on Windows XP, |
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2233 this is on the Advanced tab of Regional Settings) to the language of |
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2234 the input method. |
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2236 To bind keys that produce non-ASCII characters with modifiers, you |
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2237 must specify raw byte codes. For instance, if you want to bind |
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2238 META-a-grave to a command, you need to specify this in your `~/.emacs': |
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2239 |
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2240 (global-set-key [?\M-\340] ...) |
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2241 |
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2242 The above example is for the Latin-1 environment where the byte code |
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2243 of the encoded a-grave is 340 octal. For other environments, use the |
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2244 encoding appropriate to that environment. |
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2246 The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated |
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2247 month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions |
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2248 of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system |
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2249 library function. |
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2250 |
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2251 The function set-time-zone-rule gives incorrect results for many |
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2252 non-US timezones. This is due to over-simplistic handling of |
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2253 daylight savings switchovers by the Windows libraries. |
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2254 |
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2255 Files larger than 4GB cause overflow in the size (represented as a |
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2256 32-bit integer) reported by `file-attributes'. This affects Dired as |
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2257 well, since the Windows port uses a Lisp emulation of `ls' that relies |
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2258 on `file-attributes'. |
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2259 |
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2260 Sound playing is not supported with the `:data DATA' key-value pair. |
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2261 You _must_ use the `:file FILE' method. |
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2263 ** Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on MS-Windows. |
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2265 This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If |
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2266 you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt |
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2267 and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way. A |
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2268 more permanent work around is to change it to another key combination, |
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2269 or disable it in the "Regional and Language Options" applet of the |
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2270 Control Panel. (The exact sequence of mouse clicks in the "Regional |
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2271 and Language Options" applet needed to find the key combination that |
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2272 changes the keyboard layout depends on your Windows version; for XP, |
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2273 in the Languages tab, click "Details" and then "Key Settings".) |
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2274 |
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2275 ** Cygwin build of Emacs hangs after rebasing Cygwin DLLs |
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2276 |
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2277 Usually, on Cygwin, one needs to rebase the DLLs if an application |
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2278 aborts with a message like this: |
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2279 |
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2280 C:\cygwin\bin\python.exe: *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll to |
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2281 same address as parent(0xDF0000) != 0xE00000 |
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2282 |
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2283 However, since Cygwin DLL 1.5.17 was released, after such rebasing, |
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2284 Emacs hangs. |
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2285 |
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2286 This was reported to happen for Emacs 21.2 and also for the pretest of |
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2287 Emacs 22.1 on Cygwin. |
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2288 |
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2289 To work around this, build Emacs like this: |
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2290 |
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2291 LDFLAGS='-Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base' ./configure |
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2292 make LD='$(CC)' |
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2293 make LD='$(CC)' install |
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2294 |
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2295 This produces an Emacs binary that is independent of rebasing. |
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2296 |
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2297 Note that you _must_ use LD='$(CC)' in the last two commands above, to |
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2298 prevent GCC from passing the "--image-base 0x20000000" option to the |
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2299 linker, which is what it does by default. That option produces an |
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2300 Emacs binary with the base address 0x20000000, which will cause Emacs |
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2301 to hang after Cygwin DLLs are rebased. |
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2303 ** Interrupting Cygwin port of Bash from Emacs doesn't work. |
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2305 Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the |
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2306 MS-Windows version of Emacs. This is due to some change in the Bash |
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2307 port or in the Cygwin library which apparently make Bash ignore the |
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2308 keyboard interrupt event sent by Emacs to Bash. (Older Cygwin ports |
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2309 of Bash, up to b20.1, did receive SIGINT from Emacs.) |
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2311 ** Accessing remote files with ange-ftp hangs the MS-Windows version of Emacs. |
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2313 If the FTP client is the Cygwin port of GNU `ftp', this appears to be |
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2314 due to some bug in the Cygwin DLL or some incompatibility between it |
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2315 and the implementation of asynchronous subprocesses in the Windows |
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2316 port of Emacs. Specifically, some parts of the FTP server responses |
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2317 are not flushed out, apparently due to buffering issues, which |
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2318 confuses ange-ftp. |
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2320 The solution is to downgrade to an older version of the Cygwin DLL |
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2321 (version 1.3.2 was reported to solve the problem), or use the stock |
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2322 Windows FTP client, usually found in the `C:\WINDOWS' or 'C:\WINNT' |
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2323 directory. To force ange-ftp use the stock Windows client, set the |
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2324 variable `ange-ftp-ftp-program-name' to the absolute file name of the |
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2325 client's executable. For example: |
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2327 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "c:/windows/ftp.exe") |
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2329 If you want to stick with the Cygwin FTP client, you can work around |
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2330 this problem by putting this in your `.emacs' file: |
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2332 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v" "--prompt" "") |
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2336 This problem may also strike other platforms, but the solution is |
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2337 likely to be a global one, and not Emacs specific. |
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2339 Many cheap inkjet, and even some cheap laser printers, do not |
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2340 print plain text anymore, they will only print through graphical |
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2341 printer drivers. A workaround on MS-Windows is to use Windows' basic |
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2342 built in editor to print (this is possibly the only useful purpose it |
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2343 has): |
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2345 (setq printer-name "") ;; notepad takes the default |
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2346 (setq lpr-command "notepad") ;; notepad |
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2347 (setq lpr-switches nil) ;; not needed |
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2348 (setq lpr-printer-switch "/P") ;; run notepad as batch printer |
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2350 ** Antivirus software interacts badly with the MS-Windows version of Emacs. |
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2352 The usual manifestation of these problems is that subprocesses don't |
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2353 work or even wedge the entire system. In particular, "M-x shell RET" |
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2354 was reported to fail to work. But other commands also sometimes don't |
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2355 work when an antivirus package is installed. |
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2357 The solution is to switch the antivirus software to a less aggressive |
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2358 mode (e.g., disable the ``auto-protect'' feature), or even uninstall |
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2359 or disable it entirely. |
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2361 ** Pressing the mouse button on MS-Windows does not give a mouse-2 event. |
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2363 This is usually a problem with the mouse driver. Because most Windows |
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2364 programs do not do anything useful with the middle mouse button, many |
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2365 mouse drivers allow you to define the wheel press to do something |
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2366 different. Some drivers do not even have the option to generate a |
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2367 middle button press. In such cases, setting the wheel press to |
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2368 "scroll" sometimes works if you press the button twice. Trying a |
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2369 generic mouse driver might help. |
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2371 ** Scrolling the mouse wheel on MS-Windows always scrolls the top window. |
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2373 This is another common problem with mouse drivers. Instead of |
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2374 generating scroll events, some mouse drivers try to fake scroll bar |
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2375 movement. But they are not intelligent enough to handle multiple |
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2376 scroll bars within a frame. Trying a generic mouse driver might help. |
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2378 ** Mail sent through Microsoft Exchange in some encodings appears to be |
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2379 mangled and is not seen correctly in Rmail or Gnus. We don't know |
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2380 exactly what happens, but it isn't an Emacs problem in cases we've |
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2381 seen. |
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2383 ** On MS-Windows, you cannot use the right-hand ALT key and the left-hand |
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2384 CTRL key together to type a Control-Meta character. |
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2386 This is a consequence of a misfeature beyond Emacs's control. |
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2388 Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key |
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2389 events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl. Since Emacs cannot |
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2390 distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl |
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2391 combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that |
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2392 AltGr has been pressed. The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set |
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2393 to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt. |
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2395 ** Under some X-servers running on MS-Windows, Emacs' display is incorrect. |
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2397 The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the |
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2398 screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective |
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2399 display or when killing a region). M-x recenter will cause the screen |
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2400 to be completely redisplayed and the "extra" characters will disappear. |
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2402 This is known to occur under Exceed 6, and possibly earlier versions |
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2403 as well; it is reportedly solved in version 6.2.0.16 and later. The |
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2404 problem lies in the X-server settings. |
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2406 There are reports that you can solve the problem with Exceed by |
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2407 running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then |
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2408 un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X |
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2409 selection". |
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2411 Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then |
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2412 please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix. |
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2413 If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it |
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2414 here. |
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2416 * Build-time problems |
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2418 ** Configuration |
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2420 *** The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library. |
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2422 There are reports that this happens on some systems because the linker |
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2423 by default only looks for shared libraries, but jpeg distribution by |
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2424 default only installs a nonshared version of the library, `libjpeg.a'. |
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2426 If this is the problem, you can configure the jpeg library with the |
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2427 `--enable-shared' option and then rebuild libjpeg. This produces a |
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2428 shared version of libjpeg, which you need to install. Finally, rerun |
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2429 the Emacs configure script, which should now find the jpeg library. |
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2430 Alternatively, modify the generated src/Makefile to link the .a file |
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2431 explicitly, and edit src/config.h to define HAVE_JPEG. |
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2433 *** `configure' warns ``accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor''. |
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2435 This indicates a mismatch between the C compiler and preprocessor that |
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2436 configure is using. For example, on Solaris 10 trying to use |
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2437 CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc (the Sun Studio compiler) together with |
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2438 CPP=/usr/ccs/lib/cpp can result in errors of this form (you may also |
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2439 see the error ``"/usr/include/sys/isa_defs.h", line 500: undefined control''). |
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2441 The solution is to tell configure to use the correct C preprocessor |
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2442 for your C compiler (CPP="/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -E" in the above |
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2443 example). |
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2445 *** `configure' fails with ``"junk.c", line 660: invalid input token: 8.elc'' |
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2447 The final stage of the Emacs configure process uses the C preprocessor |
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2448 to generate the Makefiles. Errors of this form can occur if the C |
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2449 preprocessor inserts extra whitespace into its output. The solution |
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2450 is to find the switches that stop your preprocessor from inserting extra |
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2451 whitespace, add them to CPPFLAGS, and re-run configure. For example, |
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2452 this error can occur on Solaris 10 when using the Sun Studio compiler |
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2453 ``Sun C 5.8'' with its preprocessor CPP="/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -E". |
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2454 The relevant switch in this case is "-Xs" (``compile assuming |
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2455 (pre-ANSI) K & R C style code''). |
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2457 ** Compilation |
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2458 |
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2459 *** Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''. |
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2461 This was reported to happen when building Emacs on a GNU/Linux system |
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2463 (SunOS 5.6) file server, but it might not be limited to that |
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2464 configuration alone. Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the |
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2465 files' data to disk quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is |
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2466 left ``busy'' for several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping |
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2467 itself. This causes the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped |
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2468 Emacs executable to fail with the above message. |
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2469 |
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2470 In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the |
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2471 machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make |
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2472 (it says that some of the files have modification time in the future). |
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2473 This might be a symptom of NFS-related problems. |
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2475 If the NFS server runs on Solaris, apply the Solaris patch 105379-05 |
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2476 (Sunos 5.6: /kernel/misc/nfssrv patch). If that doesn't work, or if |
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2477 you have a different version of the OS or the NFS server, you can |
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2478 force the NFS server to use 1KB blocks, which was reported to fix the |
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2479 problem albeit at a price of slowing down file I/O. You can force 1KB |
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2480 blocks by specifying the "-o rsize=1024,wsize=1024" options to the |
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2481 `mount' command, or by adding ",rsize=1024,wsize=1024" to the mount |
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2482 options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as |
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2483 `/etc/auto.home'. |
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2485 Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for |
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2486 a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case, |
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2487 waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed |
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2488 to work around the problem. |
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2489 |
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2490 Similar problems can happen if your machine NFS-mounts a directory |
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2491 onto itself. Suppose the Emacs sources live in `/usr/local/src' and |
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2492 you are working on the host called `marvin'. Then an entry in the |
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2493 `/etc/fstab' file like the following is asking for trouble: |
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2494 |
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2495 marvin:/usr/local/src /usr/local/src ...options.omitted... |
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2497 The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'. |
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2499 *** Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory. |
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2501 This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one |
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2502 of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released |
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2503 version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those |
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2504 dates; similar problems were reported with some snapshots of GCC 3.1 |
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2505 around Sep 30 2001. The preprocessor in those versions is |
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2506 incompatible with a traditional Unix cpp (e.g., it expands ".." into |
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2507 ". .", which breaks relative file names that reference the parent |
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2508 directory; or inserts TAB characters before lines that set Make |
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2509 variables). |
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2510 |
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2511 The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the |
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2512 `-traditional' option. The `configure' script does that automatically |
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2513 when it detects the known problems in your cpp, but you might hit some |
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2514 unknown ones. To force the `configure' script to use `-traditional', |
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2515 run the script like this: |
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2516 |
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2517 CPP='gcc -E -traditional' ./configure ... |
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2519 (replace the ellipsis "..." with any additional arguments you pass to |
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2520 the script). |
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2521 |
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2522 Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of |
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2523 Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles. |
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2524 |
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2525 *** src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing. |
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2526 *** Compiling wakeup, in lib-src, says it can't make wakeup.c. |
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2528 This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version |
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2529 had a bug. GNU sed version 2.05 works properly.To solve the |
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2530 problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun Emacs's |
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2531 configure script. |
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2532 |
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2533 *** Compiling lib-src says there is no rule to make test-distrib.c. |
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2534 |
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2535 This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed. To solve |
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2536 the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun |
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2537 Emacs's configure script. |
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2539 *** Building a 32-bit executable on a 64-bit GNU/Linux architecture. |
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2541 First ensure that the necessary 32-bit system libraries and include |
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2542 files are installed. Then use: |
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2543 |
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2544 env CC="gcc -m32" ./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu \ |
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2545 --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib |
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2547 (using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system). |
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2549 *** Building the Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC versions |
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2551 Building Emacs 22 with Cygwin builds of GCC 3.4.4-1 and 3.4.4-2 is |
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2552 reported to either fail or cause Emacs to segfault at run time. In |
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2553 addition, the Cygwin GCC 3.4.4-2 has problems with generating debug |
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2554 info. Cygwin users are advised not to use these versions of GCC for |
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2555 compiling Emacs. GCC versions 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1.1, and 4.1.2 |
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2556 reportedly build a working Cygwin binary of Emacs, so we recommend |
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2557 these GCC versions. Note that these versions of GCC, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, |
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2558 4.1.1, and 4.1.2, are currently the _only_ versions known to succeed |
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2559 in building Emacs (as of v22.1). |
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2560 |
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2561 *** Building the native MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail. |
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2562 |
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2563 Emacs may not build using some Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin |
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2564 version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings. It appears to be |
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2565 necessary to specify the -mwin32 flag when compiling, and define |
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2566 __MSVCRT__, like so: |
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2567 |
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2568 configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__ |
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2569 |
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2570 *** Building the MS-Windows port fails with a CreateProcess failure. |
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2572 Some versions of mingw32 make on some versions of Windows do not seem |
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2573 to detect the shell correctly. Try "make SHELL=cmd.exe", or if that |
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2574 fails, try running make from Cygwin bash instead. |
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2575 |
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2576 *** Building `ctags' for MS-Windows with the MinGW port of GCC fails. |
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2578 This might happen due to a bug in the MinGW header assert.h, which |
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2579 defines the `assert' macro with a trailing semi-colon. The following |
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2580 patch to assert.h should solve this: |
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2581 |
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2582 *** include/assert.h.orig Sun Nov 7 02:41:36 1999 |
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2583 --- include/assert.h Mon Jan 29 11:49:10 2001 |
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2584 *************** |
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2585 *** 41,47 **** |
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2586 /* |
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2587 * If not debugging, assert does nothing. |
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2588 */ |
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2589 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0); |
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2591 #else /* debugging enabled */ |
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2592 |
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2593 --- 41,47 ---- |
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2594 /* |
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2595 * If not debugging, assert does nothing. |
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2596 */ |
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2597 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0) |
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2598 |
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2599 #else /* debugging enabled */ |
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2602 *** Building the MS-Windows port with Visual Studio 2005 fails. |
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2603 |
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2604 Microsoft no longer ships the single threaded version of the C library |
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2605 with their compiler, and the multithreaded static library is missing |
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2606 some functions that Microsoft have deemed non-threadsafe. The |
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2607 dynamically linked C library has all the functions, but there is a |
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2608 conflict between the versions of malloc in the DLL and in Emacs, which |
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2609 is not resolvable due to the way Windows does dynamic linking. |
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2610 |
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2611 We recommend the use of the MinGW port of GCC for compiling Emacs, as |
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2612 not only does it not suffer these problems, but it is also Free |
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2613 software like Emacs. |
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2614 |
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2615 *** Building the MS-Windows port with Visual Studio fails compiling emacs.rc |
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2616 |
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2617 If the build fails with the following message then the problem |
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2618 described here most likely applies: |
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2619 |
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2620 ../nt/emacs.rc(1) : error RC2176 : old DIB in icons\emacs.ico; pass it |
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2621 through SDKPAINT |
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2622 |
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2623 The Emacs icon contains a high resolution PNG icon for Vista, which is |
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2624 not recognized by older versions of the resource compiler. There are |
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2625 several workarounds for this problem: |
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2626 1. Use Free MinGW tools to compile, which do not have this problem. |
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2627 2. Install the latest Windows SDK. |
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2628 3. Replace emacs.ico with an older or edited icon. |
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2629 |
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2630 ** Linking |
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2631 |
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2632 *** Building Emacs with a system compiler fails to link because of an |
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2633 undefined symbol such as __eprintf which does not appear in Emacs. |
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2635 This can happen if some of the libraries linked into Emacs were built |
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2636 with GCC, but Emacs itself is being linked with a compiler other than |
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2637 GCC. Object files compiled with GCC might need some helper functions |
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2638 from libgcc.a, the library which comes with GCC, but the system |
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2639 compiler does not instruct the linker to search libgcc.a during the |
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2640 link stage. |
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2641 |
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2642 A solution is to link with GCC, like this: |
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2643 |
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2644 make CC=gcc |
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2646 Since the .o object files already exist, this will not recompile Emacs |
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2647 with GCC, but just restart by trying again to link temacs. |
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2649 *** AIX 1.3 ptf 0013: Link failure. |
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2650 |
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2651 There is a real duplicate definition of the function `_slibc_free' in |
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2652 the library /lib/libc_s.a (just do nm on it to verify). The |
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2653 workaround/fix is: |
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2654 |
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2655 cd /lib |
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2656 ar xv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o |
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2657 ar dv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o |
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2659 *** AIX 4.1.2: Linker error messages such as |
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2660 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table |
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2661 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o. |
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2663 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing |
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2664 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where |
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2665 you build Emacs: |
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2666 |
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2667 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a . |
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2668 chmod 664 libIM.a |
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2669 ranlib libIM.a |
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2671 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in |
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2672 Makefile). |
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2673 |
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2674 *** Sun with acc: Link failure when using acc on a Sun. |
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2676 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as |
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2677 |
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2678 /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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2679 |
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2680 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc. |
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2682 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we |
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2683 cannot easily arrange to supply them. |
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2685 *** Linking says that the functions insque and remque are undefined. |
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2687 Change oldXMenu/Makefile by adding insque.o to the variable OBJS. |
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2689 *** `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses. |
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2691 This problem results from an incompatible change in ncurses, in |
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2692 version 1.9.9e approximately. This version is unable to provide a |
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2693 definition of tparm without also defining tparam. This is also |
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2694 incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support |
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2695 does not work with this version of ncurses. |
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2697 The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2. |
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2698 |
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2699 ** Bootstrapping |
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2700 |
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2701 Bootstrapping (compiling the .el files) is normally only necessary |
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2702 with CVS builds, since the .elc files are pre-compiled in releases. |
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2703 |
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2704 *** "No rule to make target" with Ubuntu 8.04 make 3.81-3build1 |
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2705 |
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2706 Compiling the lisp files fails at random places, complaining: |
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2707 "No rule to make target `/path/to/some/lisp.elc'". |
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2708 The causes of this problem are not understood. Using GNU make 3.81 compiled |
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2709 from source, rather than the Ubuntu version, worked. See Bug#327,821. |
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2710 |
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2711 ** Dumping |
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2712 |
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2713 *** Linux: Segfault during `make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel. |
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2714 |
77139 | 2715 With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Red Hat Fedora Core |
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2716 1 and newer), the new "Exec-shield" functionality is enabled by default, which |
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2717 creates a different memory layout that breaks the emacs dumper. Emacs tries |
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2718 to handle this at build time, but if the workaround used fails, these |
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2719 instructions can be useful. |
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2720 The work-around explained here is not enough on Fedora Core 4 (and possible |
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2721 newer). Read the next item. |
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2722 |
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2723 Configure can overcome the problem of exec-shield if the architecture is |
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2724 x86 and the program setarch is present. On other architectures no |
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2725 workaround is known. |
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2726 |
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2727 You can check the Exec-shield state like this: |
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2728 |
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2729 cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield |
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2730 |
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2731 It returns non-zero when Exec-shield is enabled, 0 otherwise. Please |
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2732 read your system documentation for more details on Exec-shield and |
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2733 associated commands. Exec-shield can be turned off with this command: |
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2735 echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield |
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2736 |
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2737 When Exec-shield is enabled, building Emacs will segfault during the |
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2738 execution of this command: |
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2739 |
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2740 ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] |
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2742 To work around this problem, it is necessary to temporarily disable |
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2743 Exec-shield while building Emacs, or, on x86, by using the `setarch' |
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2744 command when running temacs like this: |
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2746 setarch i386 ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] |
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2748 |
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2749 *** Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping. |
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2750 |
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2751 In addition to exec-shield explained above "Linux: Segfault during |
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2752 `make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel" |
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2753 item, Linux kernel shipped with Fedora Core 4 randomizes the virtual |
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2754 address space of a process. As the result dumping may fail even if |
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2755 you turn off exec-shield. In this case, use the -R option to the setarch |
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2756 command: |
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2758 setarch i386 -R ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] |
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2759 |
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2760 or |
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2762 setarch i386 -R make bootstrap |
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2764 *** Fatal signal in the command temacs -l loadup inc dump. |
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2766 This command is the final stage of building Emacs. It is run by the |
97142 | 2767 Makefile in the src subdirectory. |
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2769 It has been known to get fatal errors due to insufficient swapping |
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2770 space available on the machine. |
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2772 On 68000s, it has also happened because of bugs in the |
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2773 subroutine `alloca'. Verify that `alloca' works right, even |
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2774 for large blocks (many pages). |
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2776 *** test-distrib says that the distribution has been clobbered. |
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2777 *** or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127". |
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2778 *** or, temacs runs and dumps emacs, but emacs totally fails to work. |
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2779 *** or, temacs gets errors dumping emacs. |
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2781 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be |
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2782 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are |
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2783 binary files and can contain all 256 byte values. |
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2785 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs. |
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2786 It typically truncates "lines". What appear to be "lines" in |
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2787 a binary file can of course be of any length. Even once `shar' |
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2788 itself is made to work correctly, `sh' discards null characters |
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2789 when unpacking the shell archive. |
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2791 I have also seen character \177 changed into \377. I do not know |
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2792 what transfer means caused this problem. Various network |
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2793 file transfer programs are suspected of clobbering the high bit. |
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2795 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its |
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2796 nonprinting characters, you can fix them: |
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2797 |
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2798 1) Record the names of all the .elc files. |
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2799 2) Delete all the .elc files. |
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2800 3) Recompile alloc.c with a value of PURESIZE twice as large. |
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2801 (See puresize.h.) You might as well save the old alloc.o. |
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2802 4) Remake emacs. It should work now. |
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2803 5) Running emacs, do Meta-x byte-compile-file repeatedly |
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2804 to recreate all the .elc files that used to exist. |
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2805 You may need to increase the value of the variable |
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2806 max-lisp-eval-depth to succeed in running the compiler interpreted |
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2807 on certain .el files. 400 was sufficient as of last report. |
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2808 6) Reinstall the old alloc.o (undoing changes to alloc.c if any) |
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2809 and remake temacs. |
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2810 7) Remake emacs. It should work now, with valid .elc files. |
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2812 *** temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted". |
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2814 This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el |
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2815 files during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more |
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2816 space than was allocated. |
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2818 This could be caused by |
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2819 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files |
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2820 2) adding more preloaded files in loadup.el |
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2821 3) having a site-init.el or site-load.el which loads files. |
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2822 Note that ANY site-init.el or site-load.el is nonstandard; |
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2823 if you have received Emacs from some other site |
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2824 and it contains a site-init.el or site-load.el file, consider |
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2825 deleting that file. |
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2826 4) getting the wrong .el or .elc files |
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2827 (not from the directory you expected). |
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2828 5) deleting some .elc files that are supposed to exist. |
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2829 This would cause the source files (.el files) to be |
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2830 loaded instead. They take up more room, so you lose. |
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2831 6) a bug in the Emacs distribution which underestimates |
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2832 the space required. |
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2833 |
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2834 If the need for more space is legitimate, change the definition |
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2835 of PURESIZE in puresize.h. |
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2837 But in some of the cases listed above, this problem is a consequence |
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2838 of something else that is wrong. Be sure to check and fix the real |
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2839 problem. |
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2840 |
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2841 *** Linux: Emacs crashes when dumping itself on Mac PPC running Yellow Dog GNU/Linux. |
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2843 The crashes happen inside the function Fmake_symbol; here's a typical |
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2844 C backtrace printed by GDB: |
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2845 |
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2846 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol () |
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2847 (gdb) where |
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2848 #0 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol () |
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2849 #1 0x1942ca4 in init_obarray () |
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2850 #2 0x18b3500 in main () |
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2851 #3 0x114371c in __libc_start_main (argc=5, argv=0x7ffff5b4, envp=0x7ffff5cc, |
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2852 |
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2853 This could happen because GCC version 2.95 and later changed the base |
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2854 of the load address to 0x10000000. Emacs needs to be told about this, |
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2855 but we currently cannot do that automatically, because that breaks |
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2856 other versions of GNU/Linux on the MacPPC. Until we find a way to |
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2857 distinguish between the Yellow Dog and the other varieties of |
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2858 GNU/Linux systems on the PPC, you will have to manually uncomment the |
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2859 following section near the end of the file src/m/macppc.h in the Emacs |
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2860 distribution: |
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2862 #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux except for Yellowdog, |
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2863 even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we |
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2864 know what's really going on here. */ |
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2865 /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to |
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2866 0x10000000. */ |
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2867 #if defined __linux__ |
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2868 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95) |
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2869 #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000 |
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2870 #endif |
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2871 #endif |
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2872 #endif /* 0 */ |
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2874 Remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives which surround this, save |
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2875 the file, and then reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. The dumping process |
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2876 should now succeed. |
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2878 *** OpenBSD 4.0 macppc: Segfault during dumping. |
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2880 The build aborts with signal 11 when the command `./temacs --batch |
77746 | 2881 --load loadup bootstrap' tries to load files.el. A workaround seems |
2882 to be to reduce the level of compiler optimization used during the | |
2883 build (from -O2 to -O1). It is possible this is an OpenBSD | |
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2884 GCC problem specific to the macppc architecture, possibly only |
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79018 | 2887 *** openSUSE 10.3: Segfault in bcopy during dumping. |
2888 | |
2889 This is due to a bug in the bcopy implementation in openSUSE 10.3. | |
2890 It is/will be fixed in an openSUSE update. | |
2891 | |
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2892 ** Installation |
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2894 *** Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'. |
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2896 You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package |
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2897 supplies the `install-info' command. |
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2900 | |
2901 For example, if you call configure with a directory-related option | |
2902 with spaces in the value, eg --enable-locallisppath='/path/with\ spaces'. | |
2903 Using directory paths with spaces is not supported at this time: you | |
2904 must re-configure without using spaces. | |
2905 | |
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2908 Installation may fail, or the Emacs executable may not start |
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2909 correctly, if a directory name containing non-ASCII characters is used |
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2910 as a `configure' argument (e.g. `--prefix'). The problem can also |
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2912 envvar. |
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2913 |
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2914 *** On Solaris, use GNU Make when installing an out-of-tree build |
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2915 |
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2916 The Emacs configuration process allows you to configure the |
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2917 build environment so that you can build emacs in a directory |
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2918 outside of the distribution tree. When installing Emacs from an |
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2919 out-of-tree build directory on Solaris, you may need to use GNU |
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2920 make. The make programs bundled with Solaris support the VPATH |
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2921 macro but use it differently from the way the VPATH macro is |
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2922 used by GNU make. The differences will cause the "make install" |
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2923 step to fail, leaving you with an incomplete emacs |
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2924 installation. GNU make is available in /usr/sfw/bin on Solaris |
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2925 10 and can be installed as /opt/sfw/bin/gmake from the Solaris 9 |
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2926 Software Companion CDROM. |
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2927 |
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2928 The problems due to the VPATH processing differences affect only |
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2929 out of tree builds so, if you are on a Solaris installation |
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2930 without GNU make, you can install Emacs completely by installing |
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2931 from a build environment using the original emacs distribution tree. |
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2932 |
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2933 ** First execution |
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2934 |
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2935 *** Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run. |
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2936 |
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2937 This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted |
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2938 via NFS, for some combinations of NFS client and NFS server. |
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2939 Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of |
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2940 binary null characters, and the `file' utility says: |
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2941 |
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2942 emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators |
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2943 |
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2944 We don't know what exactly causes this failure. A work-around is to |
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2945 build Emacs in a directory on a local disk. |
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2946 |
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2947 *** The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data. |
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2948 |
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2949 Two causes have been seen for such problems. |
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2950 |
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2951 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined |
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2952 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong, |
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2953 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct |
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2954 value in the man page for a.out (5). |
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2955 |
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2956 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the |
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2957 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most |
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2958 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and |
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2959 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you |
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2960 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file. |
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2961 |
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2962 * Emacs 19 problems |
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2963 |
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2964 ** Error messages `Wrong number of arguments: #<subr where-is-internal>, 5'. |
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2965 |
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2966 This typically results from having the powerkey library loaded. |
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2967 Powerkey was designed for Emacs 19.22. It is obsolete now because |
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2968 Emacs 19 now has this feature built in; and powerkey also calls |
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2969 where-is-internal in an obsolete way. |
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2970 |
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2971 So the fix is to arrange not to load powerkey. |
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2972 |
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2973 * Runtime problems on legacy systems |
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2974 |
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2975 This section covers bugs reported on very old hardware or software. |
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2976 If you are using hardware and an operating system shipped after 2000, |
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2977 it is unlikely you will see any of these. |
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2978 |
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2979 ** Ancient operating systems |
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2980 |
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2981 AIX 4.2 was end-of-lifed on Dec 31st, 1999. |
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2982 |
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2983 *** AIX: You get this compiler error message: |
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2984 |
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2985 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h |
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2986 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found. |
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2987 |
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2988 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d |
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2989 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install |
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2990 X11Dev... with smit. |
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2991 |
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2992 (This report must be ancient. Bootable tapes are long dead.) |
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2993 |
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2994 *** AIX 3.2.4: Releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down. |
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2995 |
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2996 Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is |
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2997 ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can |
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2998 lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are |
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2999 treated as control characters. |
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3000 |
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3001 You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and |
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3002 releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys. |
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3003 |
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3004 *** AIX 3.2.5: You get this message when running Emacs: |
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3005 |
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3006 Could not load program emacs |
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3007 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined |
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3008 Error was: Exec format error |
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3009 |
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3010 or this one: |
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3011 |
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3012 Could not load program .emacs |
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3013 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined |
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3014 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined |
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3015 Error was: Exec format error |
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3016 |
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3017 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was |
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3018 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile. |
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3019 |
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3020 *** AIX 4.2: Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup. |
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3021 |
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3022 If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c |
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3023 without optimization; that should avoid the problem. |
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3025 *** ISC Unix |
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3027 **** ISC: display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems. |
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3029 Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other |
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3030 versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT |
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3031 cells. Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted. |
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3032 This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other |
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3033 processes die, in particular pcnfsd. |
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3035 Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have |
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3036 the same problem. Display-time seems to be far the worst. |
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3038 The only known fix: Don't run display-time. |
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3040 **** Sunos 5.3: Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies. |
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3041 |
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3042 A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs |
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3043 exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only |
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3044 applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses |
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3045 communicating through pipes. |
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3047 *** Irix |
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3048 |
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3049 *** Irix 6.2: No visible display on mips-sgi-irix6.2 when compiling with GCC 2.8.1. |
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3051 This problem went away after installing the latest IRIX patches |
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3052 as of 8 Dec 1998. |
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3054 The same problem has been reported on Irix 6.3. |
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3055 |
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3056 *** Irix 6.3: substituting environment variables in file names |
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3057 in the minibuffer gives peculiar error messages such as |
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3058 |
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3059 Substituting nonexistent environment variable "" |
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3061 This is not an Emacs bug; it is caused by something in SGI patch |
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3062 003082 August 11, 1998. |
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3064 *** OPENSTEP |
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3066 **** OPENSTEP 4.2: Compiling syntax.c with gcc 2.7.2.1 fails. |
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3068 The compiler was reported to crash while compiling syntax.c with the |
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3069 following message: |
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3070 |
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3071 cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11 |
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3073 To work around this, replace the macros UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD, |
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3074 INC_BOTH, and INC_FROM with functions. To this end, first define 3 |
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3075 functions, one each for every macro. Here's an example: |
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3077 static int update_syntax_table_forward(int from) |
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3078 { |
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3079 return(UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD(from)); |
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3080 }/*update_syntax_table_forward*/ |
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3082 Then replace all references to UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD in syntax.c |
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3083 with a call to the function update_syntax_table_forward. |
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3085 *** Solaris 2.x |
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3087 **** Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun. |
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3089 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of |
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3090 editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such |
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3091 as GCC. |
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3092 |
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3093 **** On Solaris, Emacs dumps core if lisp-complete-symbol is called. |
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3095 If you compile Emacs with the -fast or -xO4 option with version 3.0.2 |
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3096 of the Sun C compiler, Emacs dumps core when lisp-complete-symbol is |
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3097 called. The problem does not happen if you compile with GCC. |
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3099 **** On Solaris, Emacs crashes if you use (display-time). |
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3101 This can happen if you configure Emacs without specifying the precise |
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3102 version of Solaris that you are using. |
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3103 |
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3104 **** Solaris 2.3 and 2.4: Unpredictable segmentation faults. |
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3106 A user reported that this happened in 19.29 when it was compiled with |
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3107 the Sun compiler, but not when he recompiled with GCC 2.7.0. |
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3109 We do not know whether something in Emacs is partly to blame for this. |
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3111 **** Solaris 2.4: Emacs dumps core on startup. |
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3113 Bill Sebok says that the cause of this is Solaris 2.4 vendor patch |
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3114 102303-05, which extends the Solaris linker to deal with the Solaris |
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3115 Common Desktop Environment's linking needs. You can fix the problem |
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3116 by removing this patch and installing patch 102049-02 instead. |
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3117 However, that linker version won't work with CDE. |
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3119 Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug. It is reported that if |
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3120 you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed. |
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3121 We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know |
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3122 for certain. |
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3124 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes) |
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3125 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes) |
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3126 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes) |
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3128 (One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together |
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3129 with patches 102980-04, 103279-01, 103300-02, and 103468-01.) |
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3131 If you can determine which patch does fix the bug, please tell |
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3132 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
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3134 Meanwhile, the GNU linker links Emacs properly on both Solaris 2.4 and |
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3135 Solaris 2.5. |
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3137 **** Solaris 2.4: Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs |
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3138 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie. |
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3140 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so |
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3141 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines |
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3143 #if ThreadedX |
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3144 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread |
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3145 #endif |
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3146 |
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3147 to: |
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3148 |
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3149 #if OSMinorVersion < 4 |
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3150 #if ThreadedX |
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3151 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread |
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3152 #endif |
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3153 #endif |
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3154 |
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3155 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4 |
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3156 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for |
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3157 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under |
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3158 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the |
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3159 definition for your type of machine and system. |
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3161 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild |
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3162 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on |
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3163 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3. |
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3164 |
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3165 For multithreaded X to work it is necessary to install patch |
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3166 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need |
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3167 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that |
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3168 patch. |
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3169 |
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3170 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution: |
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3171 he changed |
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3172 #define ThreadedX YES |
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3173 to |
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3174 #define ThreadedX NO |
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3175 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all |
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3176 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and |
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3177 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work. |
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3178 |
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3179 **** Solaris 2.x: GCC complains "64 bit integer types not supported". |
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3180 |
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3181 This suggests that GCC is not installed correctly. Most likely you |
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3182 are using GCC 2.7.2.3 (or earlier) on Solaris 2.6 (or later); this |
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3183 does not work without patching. To run GCC 2.7.2.3 on Solaris 2.6 or |
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3184 later, you must patch fixinc.svr4 and reinstall GCC from scratch as |
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3185 described in the Solaris FAQ |
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3186 <http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html>. A better fix is |
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3187 to upgrade to GCC 2.8.1 or later. |
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3188 |
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3189 **** Solaris 2.7: Building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 |
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3190 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to |
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3191 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C |
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3192 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on |
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3193 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler |
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3194 and the default CFLAGS. |
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3195 |
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3196 **** Solaris 2.x: Emacs dumps core when built with Motif. |
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3198 The Solaris Motif libraries are buggy, at least up through Solaris 2.5.1. |
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3199 Install the current Motif runtime library patch appropriate for your host. |
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3200 (Make sure the patch is current; some older patch versions still have the bug.) |
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3201 You should install the other patches recommended by Sun for your host, too. |
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3202 You can obtain Sun patches from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/; |
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3203 look for files with names ending in `.PatchReport' to see which patches |
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3204 are currently recommended for your host. |
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3205 |
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3206 On Solaris 2.6, Emacs is said to work with Motif when Solaris patch |
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3207 105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed. |
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3208 105284-18 might fix it again. |
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3209 |
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3210 **** Solaris 2.6 and 7: the Compose key does not work. |
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3211 |
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3212 This is a bug in Motif in Solaris. Supposedly it has been fixed for |
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3213 the next major release of Solaris. However, if someone with Sun |
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3214 support complains to Sun about the bug, they may release a patch. |
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3215 If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711. |
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3216 |
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3217 One workaround is to use a locale that allows non-ASCII characters. |
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3218 For example, before invoking emacs, set the LC_ALL environment |
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3219 variable to "en_US" (American English). The directory /usr/lib/locale |
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3220 lists the supported locales; any locale other than "C" or "POSIX" |
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3221 should do. |
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3223 pen@lysator.liu.se says (Feb 1998) that the Compose key does work |
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3224 if you link with the MIT X11 libraries instead of the Solaris X11 |
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3225 libraries. |
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3227 *** HP/UX versions before 11.0 |
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3229 HP/UX 9 was end-of-lifed in December 1998. |
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3230 HP/UX 10 was end-of-lifed in May 1999. |
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3231 |
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3232 **** HP/UX 9: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV after you delete a frame. |
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3233 |
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3234 We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With |
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3235 the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem |
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3236 does not happen. |
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3237 |
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3238 *** HP/UX 10: Large file support is disabled. |
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3239 |
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3240 See the comments in src/s/hpux10.h. |
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3241 |
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3242 *** HP/UX: Emacs is slow using X11R5. |
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3243 |
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3244 This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it |
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3245 doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version |
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3246 because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a, |
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3247 libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with |
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3248 those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to |
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3249 install them and rebuild Emacs. |
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3250 |
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3251 *** Ultrix and Digital Unix |
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3252 |
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3253 **** Ultrix 4.2: `make install' fails on install-doc with `Error 141'. |
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3254 |
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3255 This happens on Ultrix 4.2 due to failure of a pipeline of tar |
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3256 commands. We don't know why they fail, but the bug seems not to be in |
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3257 Emacs. The workaround is to run the shell command in install-doc by |
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3258 hand. |
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3259 |
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3260 **** Digital Unix 4.0: Garbled display on non-X terminals when Emacs runs. |
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3261 |
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3262 So far it appears that running `tset' triggers this problem (when TERM |
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3263 is vt100, at least). If you do not run `tset', then Emacs displays |
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3264 properly. If someone can tell us precisely which effect of running |
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3265 `tset' actually causes the problem, we may be able to implement a fix |
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3266 in Emacs. |
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3267 |
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3268 **** Ultrix: `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped Emacs on. |
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3270 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information |
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3271 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using |
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3272 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work |
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3273 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on. |
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3274 |
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3275 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in |
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3276 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution. |
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3278 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is |
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3279 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know. |
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3280 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included |
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3281 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host. |
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3282 |
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3283 *** SVr4 |
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3284 |
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3285 **** SVr4: On some variants of SVR4, Emacs does not work at all with X. |
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3287 Try defining BROKEN_FIONREAD in your config.h file. If this solves |
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3288 the problem, please send a bug report to tell us this is needed; be |
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3289 sure to say exactly what type of machine and system you are using. |
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3290 |
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3291 **** SVr4: After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash. |
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3292 |
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3293 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the |
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3294 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly |
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3295 the first time, and then crash when run a second time. |
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3296 |
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3297 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time, |
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3298 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your |
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3299 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the |
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3300 configure script) that reads: |
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3301 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC |
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3302 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around |
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3303 the kernel bug. |
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3304 |
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3305 *** Irix 5 and earlier |
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3306 |
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3307 Exactly when Irix-5 end-of-lifed is obscure. But since Irix 6.0 |
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3308 shipped in 1994, it has been some years. |
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3309 |
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3310 **** Irix 5.2: unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h. |
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3311 |
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3312 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the |
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3313 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset |
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3314 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy |
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3315 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of |
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3316 syms.h. |
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3317 |
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3318 **** Irix 5.3: "out of virtual swap space". |
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3319 |
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3320 This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too |
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3321 many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more |
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3322 swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You |
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3323 can check the current status of the swap space by executing the |
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3324 command `swap -l'. |
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3326 You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a |
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3327 line like this: |
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3328 |
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3329 /usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0 |
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3331 where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance |
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3332 by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of |
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3333 that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the |
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3334 new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further |
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3335 information. |
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3337 The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be |
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3338 swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users |
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3339 on the network that can log on to the host. |
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3341 If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute |
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3342 the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable |
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3343 some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM |
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3344 icons. |
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3346 You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin' |
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3347 FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35 |
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3348 ("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at |
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3349 ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/. |
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3350 |
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3351 **** Irix 5.3: Emacs crashes in utmpname. |
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3353 This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3. |
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3354 It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up. |
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3356 **** Irix 6.0: Make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi. |
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3358 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o" |
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3359 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run, |
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3360 find that string, and take out the spaces. |
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3361 |
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3362 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem. |
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3363 |
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3364 *** SCO Unix and UnixWare |
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3365 |
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3366 **** SCO 3.2v4: Unusable default font. |
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3367 |
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3368 The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings |
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3369 that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such |
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3370 fonts, so it does not work. |
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3371 |
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3372 This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is |
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3373 the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal |
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3374 emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources |
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3375 that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these |
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3376 resources affect Emacs also: |
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3377 |
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3378 *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-* |
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3379 *Background: scoBackground |
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3380 *Foreground: scoForeground |
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3381 |
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3382 The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for |
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3383 Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents: |
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3384 |
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3385 Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 |
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3386 Emacs*Background: white |
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3387 Emacs*Foreground: black |
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3388 |
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3389 (These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to |
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3390 suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server |
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3391 starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop |
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3392 environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell |
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3393 as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the |
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3394 /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs, |
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3395 but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the |
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3396 Open Desktop display. |
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3397 |
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3398 These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO |
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3399 machines; you must create the file on each machine individually. |
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3400 |
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3401 **** SCO 4.2.0: Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems. |
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3402 |
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3403 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled |
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3404 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C |
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3405 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick |
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3406 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with |
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3407 GCC. |
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3408 |
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3409 **** UnixWare 2.1: Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs. |
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3410 |
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3411 Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed |
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3412 virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during |
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3413 the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That |
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3414 error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been |
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3415 exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual |
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3416 memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs. |
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3417 |
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3418 You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh). |
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3419 But you have to be root to do it. |
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3420 |
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3421 According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel: |
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3422 |
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3423 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit |
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3424 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard " |
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3425 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit |
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3426 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard " |
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3427 # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B |
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3428 |
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3429 (He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.) |
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3430 These changes take effect when you reboot. |
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3432 *** Linux 1.x |
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3434 **** Linux 1.0-1.04: Typing C-c C-c in Shell mode kills your X server. |
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3436 This happens with Linux kernel 1.0 thru 1.04, approximately. The workaround is |
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3437 to define SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS in config.h and recompile Emacs. |
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3438 Newer Linux kernel versions don't have this problem. |
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3440 **** Linux 1.3: Output from subprocess (such as man or diff) is randomly |
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3441 truncated on GNU/Linux systems. |
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3443 This is due to a kernel bug which seems to be fixed in Linux version |
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3444 1.3.75. |
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3445 |
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3446 ** Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and ME |
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3447 |
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3448 *** MS-Windows NT/95: Problems running Perl under Emacs |
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3449 |
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3450 `perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell. |
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3451 The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95). |
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3452 |
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3453 The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to |
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3454 "CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting |
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3455 with the user. |
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3456 |
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3457 On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a |
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3458 pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to |
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3459 communicate with the subprocess. |
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3460 |
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3461 On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the |
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3462 relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be |
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3463 redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as |
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3464 stdin. |
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3465 |
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3466 A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON. |
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3467 |
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3468 For Perl 4: |
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3469 |
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3470 *** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993 |
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3471 --- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996 |
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3472 *************** |
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3473 *** 68,74 **** |
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3474 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3475 } |
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3476 else { |
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3477 ! $console = "con"; |
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3478 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3479 } |
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3480 |
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3481 --- 68,74 ---- |
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3482 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3483 } |
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3484 else { |
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3485 ! $console = ""; |
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3486 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3487 } |
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3488 |
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3489 |
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3490 For Perl 5: |
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3491 *** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995 |
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3492 --- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996 |
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3493 *************** |
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3494 *** 22,28 **** |
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3495 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3496 } |
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3497 elsif (-e "con") { |
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3498 ! $console = "con"; |
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3499 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3500 } |
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3501 else { |
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3502 --- 22,28 ---- |
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3503 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3504 } |
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3505 elsif (-e "con") { |
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3506 ! $console = ""; |
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3507 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3508 } |
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3509 else { |
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3510 |
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3511 *** MS-Windows 95: Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs. |
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3512 |
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3513 This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95. |
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3514 You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6. |
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3515 |
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3516 *** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: subprocesses do not terminate properly. |
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3517 |
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3518 This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems |
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3519 when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited |
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3520 cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at |
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3521 http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/. |
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3522 |
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3523 *** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: crashes when Emacs invokes non-existent programs. |
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3524 |
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3525 When a program you are trying to run is not found on the PATH, |
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3526 Windows might respond by crashing or locking up your system. In |
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3527 particular, this has been reported when trying to compile a Java |
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3528 program in JDEE when javac.exe is installed, but not on the system |
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3529 PATH. |
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3531 ** MS-DOS |
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3532 |
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3533 *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT or later, "config msdos" fails. |
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3535 If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because |
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3536 Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a |
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3537 program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by |
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3538 config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to |
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3539 the front of your PATH environment variable. |
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3541 *** When Emacs compiled with DJGPP runs on Windows 2000 and later, it cannot |
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3542 find your HOME directory. |
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3544 This was reported to happen when you click on "Save for future |
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3545 sessions" button in a Customize buffer. You might see an error |
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3546 message like this one: |
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3548 basic-save-buffer-2: c:/FOO/BAR/~dosuser/: no such directory |
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3549 |
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3550 (The telltale sign is the "~USER" part at the end of the directory |
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3551 Emacs complains about, where USER is your username or the literal |
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3552 string "dosuser", which is the default username set up by the DJGPP |
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3553 startup file DJGPP.ENV.) |
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3554 |
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3555 This happens when the functions `user-login-name' and |
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3556 `user-real-login-name' return different strings for your username as |
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3557 Emacs sees it. To correct this, make sure both USER and USERNAME |
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3558 environment variables are set to the same value. Windows 2000 and |
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3559 later sets USERNAME, so if you want to keep that, make sure USER is |
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3560 set to the same value. If you don't want to set USER globally, you |
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3561 can do it in the [emacs] section of your DJGPP.ENV file. |
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3562 |
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3563 *** When Emacs compiled with DJGPP runs on Vista, it runs out of memory. |
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3564 |
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3565 If Emacs running on Vista displays "!MEM FULL!" in the mode line, you |
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3566 are hitting the memory allocation bugs in the Vista DPMI server. See |
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3567 msdos/INSTALL for how to work around these bugs (search for "Vista"). |
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3569 *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows 95, Make fails for some targets |
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3570 like make-docfile. |
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3571 |
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3572 This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment |
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3573 variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during |
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3574 compilation are not the same. See msdos/INSTALL for the explanation |
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3575 of how to avoid this problem. |
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3577 *** Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup: |
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3579 "Wrong type of argument: internal-facep, msdos-menu-active-face" |
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3581 This can happen if you define an environment variable `TERM'. Emacs |
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3582 on MSDOS uses an internal terminal emulator which is disabled if the |
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3583 value of `TERM' is anything but the string "internal". Emacs then |
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3584 works as if its terminal were a dumb glass teletype that doesn't |
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3585 support faces. To work around this, arrange for `TERM' to be |
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3586 undefined when Emacs runs. The best way to do that is to add an |
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3587 [emacs] section to the DJGPP.ENV file which defines an empty value for |
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3588 `TERM'; this way, only Emacs gets the empty value, while the rest of |
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3589 your system works as before. |
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3590 |
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3591 *** MS-DOS: Emacs crashes at startup. |
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3593 Some users report that Emacs 19.29 requires dpmi memory management, |
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3594 and crashes on startup if the system does not have it. We don't yet |
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3595 know why this happens--perhaps these machines don't have enough real |
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3596 memory, or perhaps something is wrong in Emacs or the compiler. |
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3597 However, arranging to use dpmi support is a workaround. |
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3599 You can find out if you have a dpmi host by running go32 without |
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3600 arguments; it will tell you if it uses dpmi memory. For more |
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3601 information about dpmi memory, consult the djgpp FAQ. (djgpp |
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3602 is the GNU C compiler as packaged for MSDOS.) |
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3604 Compiling Emacs under MSDOS is extremely sensitive for proper memory |
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3605 configuration. If you experience problems during compilation, consider |
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3606 removing some or all memory resident programs (notably disk caches) |
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3607 and make sure that your memory managers are properly configured. See |
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3608 the djgpp faq for configuration hints. |
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3610 *** Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files |
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3611 in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any |
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3612 drive, e.g. `c:/dev'. |
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3614 This is an unfortunate side-effect of the support for Unix-style |
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3615 device names such as /dev/null in the DJGPP runtime library. A |
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3616 work-around is to rename the problem directory to another name. |
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3618 *** MS-DOS+DJGPP: Problems on MS-DOG if DJGPP v2.0 is used to compile Emacs. |
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3620 There are two DJGPP library bugs which cause problems: |
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3622 * Running `shell-command' (or `compile', or `grep') you get |
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3623 `Searching for program: permission denied (EACCES), c:/command.com'; |
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3624 * After you shell to DOS, Ctrl-Break kills Emacs. |
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3626 To work around these bugs, you can use two files in the msdos |
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3627 subdirectory: `is_exec.c' and `sigaction.c'. Compile them and link |
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3628 them into the Emacs executable `temacs'; then they will replace the |
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3629 incorrect library functions. |
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3631 *** MS-DOS: Emacs compiled for MSDOS cannot find some Lisp files, or other |
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3632 run-time support files, when long filename support is enabled. |
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3634 Usually, this problem will manifest itself when Emacs exits |
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3635 immediately after flashing the startup screen, because it cannot find |
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3636 the Lisp files it needs to load at startup. Redirect Emacs stdout |
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3637 and stderr to a file to see the error message printed by Emacs. |
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3639 Another manifestation of this problem is that Emacs is unable to load |
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3640 the support for editing program sources in languages such as C and |
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3641 Lisp. |
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3643 This can happen if the Emacs distribution was unzipped without LFN |
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3644 support, thus causing long filenames to be truncated to the first 6 |
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3645 characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it. |
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3646 You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long |
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3647 filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program |
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3648 compiled with DJGPP v2). The file msdos/INSTALL explains this issue |
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3649 in more detail. |
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3651 Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for |
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3652 MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported |
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3653 by this version of Emacs, but the distribution was unpacked by an |
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3654 unzip program that preserved the long file names instead of truncating |
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3655 them to DOS 8+3 limits. To be useful on NT, the MSDOS port of Emacs |
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3656 must be unzipped by a DOS utility, so that long file names are |
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3657 properly truncated. |
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3659 ** Archaic window managers and toolkits |
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3661 *** OpenLook: Under OpenLook, the Emacs window disappears when you type M-q. |
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3663 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit |
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3664 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use |
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3665 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window |
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3666 manager to use some other command. You can disable the |
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3667 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults: |
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3669 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False |
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3671 **** twm: A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm. |
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3673 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions. |
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3674 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file: |
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3676 UsePPosition "on" #allow clients to request a position |
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3678 ** Bugs related to old DEC hardware |
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3680 *** The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key. |
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3682 This shell command should fix it: |
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3684 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L' |
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3686 *** Keyboard input gets confused after a beep when using a DECserver |
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3687 as a concentrator. |
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3689 This problem seems to be a matter of configuring the DECserver to use |
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3690 7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters. |
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3691 |
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3692 * Build problems on legacy systems |
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3694 ** BSD/386 1.0: --with-x-toolkit option configures wrong. |
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3696 This problem is due to bugs in the shell in version 1.0 of BSD/386. |
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3697 The workaround is to edit the configure file to use some other shell, |
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3698 such as bash. |
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3699 |
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3700 ** Digital Unix 4.0: Emacs fails to build, giving error message |
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3701 Invalid dimension for the charset-ID 160 |
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3703 This is due to a bug or an installation problem in GCC 2.8.0. |
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3704 Installing a more recent version of GCC fixes the problem. |
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3706 ** Digital Unix 4.0: Failure in unexec while dumping emacs. |
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3708 This problem manifests itself as an error message |
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3710 unexec: Bad address, writing data section to ... |
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3712 The user suspects that this happened because his X libraries |
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3713 were built for an older system version, |
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3715 ./configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib |
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3717 made the problem go away. |
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3719 ** Sunos 4.1.1: there are errors compiling sysdep.c. |
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3721 If you get errors such as |
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3723 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union |
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3724 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union |
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3725 "sysdep.c", line 2019: nodename undefined |
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3727 This can result from defining LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It is very tricky |
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3728 to use that environment variable with Emacs. The Emacs configure |
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3729 script links many test programs with the system libraries; you must |
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3730 make sure that the libraries available to configure are the same |
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3731 ones available when you build Emacs. |
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3733 ** SunOS 4.1.1: You get this error message from GNU ld: |
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3735 /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment |
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3737 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld. |
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3739 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun. |
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3741 ** Sunos 4.1: Undefined symbols when linking using --with-x-toolkit. |
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3743 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace, |
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3744 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after |
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3745 -lXaw in the command that links temacs. |
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3747 This problem seems to arise only when the international language |
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3748 extensions to X11R5 are installed. |
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3749 |
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3750 ** SunOS: Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun. |
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3751 |
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3752 If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or |
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3753 `ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates |
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3754 that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries, |
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3755 with a floating point option other than the default. |
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3756 |
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3757 It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in |
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3758 crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o. |
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3759 However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default |
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3760 floating point option: -fsoft. |
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3762 ** HPUX 10.20: Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine. |
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3764 This seems to be due to a GCC bug; it is fixed in GCC 2.8.1. |
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3766 ** Vax C compiler bugs affecting Emacs. |
25853 | 3767 |
3768 You may get one of these problems compiling Emacs: | |
3769 | |
3770 foo.c line nnn: compiler error: no table entry for op STASG | |
3771 foo.c: fatal error in /lib/ccom | |
3772 | |
3773 These are due to bugs in the C compiler; the code is valid C. | |
3774 Unfortunately, the bugs are unpredictable: the same construct | |
3775 may compile properly or trigger one of these bugs, depending | |
3776 on what else is in the source file being compiled. Even changes | |
3777 in header files that should not affect the file being compiled | |
3778 can affect whether the bug happens. In addition, sometimes files | |
3779 that compile correctly on one machine get this bug on another machine. | |
3780 | |
3781 As a result, it is hard for me to make sure this bug will not affect | |
3782 you. I have attempted to find and alter these constructs, but more | |
3783 can always appear. However, I can tell you how to deal with it if it | |
3784 should happen. The bug comes from having an indexed reference to an | |
3785 array of Lisp_Objects, as an argument in a function call: | |
3786 Lisp_Object *args; | |
3787 ... | |
3788 ... foo (5, args[i], ...)... | |
3789 putting the argument into a temporary variable first, as in | |
3790 Lisp_Object *args; | |
3791 Lisp_Object tem; | |
3792 ... | |
3793 tem = args[i]; | |
3794 ... foo (r, tem, ...)... | |
3795 causes the problem to go away. | |
3796 The `contents' field of a Lisp vector is an array of Lisp_Objects, | |
3797 so you may see the problem happening with indexed references to that. | |
3798 | |
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3799 ** 68000 C compiler problems |
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3801 Various 68000 compilers have different problems. | |
3802 These are some that have been observed. | |
3803 | |
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3804 *** Using value of assignment expression on union type loses. |
25853 | 3805 This means that x = y = z; or foo (x = z); does not work |
3806 if x is of type Lisp_Object. | |
3807 | |
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3808 *** "cannot reclaim" error. |
25853 | 3809 |
3810 This means that an expression is too complicated. You get the correct | |
3811 line number in the error message. The code must be rewritten with | |
3812 simpler expressions. | |
3813 | |
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3814 *** XCONS, XSTRING, etc macros produce incorrect code. |
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3816 If temacs fails to run at all, this may be the cause. | |
3817 Compile this test program and look at the assembler code: | |
3818 | |
3819 struct foo { char x; unsigned int y : 24; }; | |
3820 | |
3821 lose (arg) | |
3822 struct foo arg; | |
3823 { | |
3824 test ((int *) arg.y); | |
3825 } | |
3826 | |
3827 If the code is incorrect, your compiler has this problem. | |
3828 In the XCONS, etc., macros in lisp.h you must replace (a).u.val with | |
3829 ((a).u.val + coercedummy) where coercedummy is declared as int. | |
3830 | |
96602 | 3831 This problem will only happen if USE_LISP_UNION_TYPE is manually |
3832 defined in lisp.h. | |
25853 | 3833 |
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3834 *** C compilers lose on returning unions. |
25853 | 3835 |
3836 I hear that some C compilers cannot handle returning a union type. | |
3837 Most of the functions in GNU Emacs return type Lisp_Object, which is | |
3838 defined as a union on some rare architectures. | |
3839 | |
96602 | 3840 This problem will only happen if USE_LISP_UNION_TYPE is manually |
3841 defined in lisp.h. | |
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3844 This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
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3846 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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3847 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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3848 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
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3849 (at your option) any later version. |
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3850 |
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3851 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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3852 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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3853 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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3854 GNU General Public License for more details. |
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3855 |
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3856 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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3857 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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41836 | 3860 Local variables: |
3861 mode: outline | |
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Prevent pasting a region twice on an xterm or rxvt in X.
Robert J. Chassell <bob@rattlesnake.com>
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