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25853 | 7 This file describes various problems that have been encountered |
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8 in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. Try doing Ctl-C Ctl-t |
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9 and browsing through the outline headers. |
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11 * Emacs startup failures |
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13 ** Emacs fails to start, complaining about missing fonts. |
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14 |
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15 A typical error message might be something like |
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16 |
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17 No fonts match `-*-fixed-medium-r-*--6-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' |
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19 This happens because some X resource specifies a bad font family for |
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20 Emacs to use. The possible places where this specification might be |
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21 are: |
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22 |
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23 - in your ~/.Xdefaults file |
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24 |
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25 - client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or |
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26 /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Emacs or |
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27 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs |
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28 |
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29 One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a |
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30 fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find |
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31 the problematic line(s) and correct them. |
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32 |
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33 ** Emacs aborts while starting up, only when run without X. |
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35 This problem often results from compiling Emacs with GCC when GCC was |
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36 installed incorrectly. The usual error in installing GCC is to |
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37 specify --includedir=/usr/include. Installation of GCC makes |
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38 corrected copies of the system header files. GCC is supposed to use |
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39 the corrected copies in preference to the original system headers. |
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40 Specifying --includedir=/usr/include causes the original system header |
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41 files to be used. On some systems, the definition of ioctl in the |
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42 original system header files is invalid for ANSI C and causes Emacs |
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43 not to work. |
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44 |
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45 The fix is to reinstall GCC, and this time do not specify --includedir |
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46 when you configure it. Then recompile Emacs. Specifying --includedir |
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47 is appropriate only in very special cases and it should *never* be the |
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48 same directory where system header files are kept. |
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50 ** Emacs does not start, complaining that it cannot open termcap database file. |
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52 If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern |
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53 systems do), this could happen if the proper version of |
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54 ncurses is not visible to the Emacs configure script (i.e. it |
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55 cannot be found along the usual path the linker looks for |
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56 libraries). It can happen because your version of ncurses is |
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57 obsolete, or is available only in form of binaries. |
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59 The solution is to install an up-to-date version of ncurses in |
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60 the developer's form (header files, static libraries and |
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61 symbolic links); in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Debian) |
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62 it constitutes a separate package. |
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63 |
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64 ** Emacs 20 and later fails to load Lisp files at startup. |
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66 The typical error message might be like this: |
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68 "Cannot open load file: fontset" |
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70 This could happen if you compress the file lisp/subdirs.el. That file |
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71 tells Emacs what are the directories where it should look for Lisp |
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72 files. Emacs cannot work with subdirs.el compressed, since the |
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73 Auto-compress mode it needs for this will not be loaded until later, |
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74 when your .emacs file is processed. (The package `fontset.el' is |
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75 required to set up fonts used to display text on window systems, and |
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76 it's loaded very early in the startup procedure.) |
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78 Similarly, any other .el file for which there's no corresponding .elc |
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79 file could fail to load if it is compressed. |
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81 The solution is to uncompress all .el files which don't have a .elc |
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82 file. |
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84 Another possible reason for such failures is stale *.elc files |
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85 lurking somewhere on your load-path. The following command will |
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86 print any duplicate Lisp files that are present in load-path: |
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88 emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows |
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90 If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale, |
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91 and should be deleted or their directories removed from your |
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92 load-path. |
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94 ** Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version. |
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96 An example of such an error is: |
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98 x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" |
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100 This can be another symptom of stale *.elc files in your load-path. |
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101 The following command will print any duplicate Lisp files that are |
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102 present in load-path: |
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104 emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows |
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106 If this command prints any file names, some of these files are stale, |
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107 and should be deleted or their directories removed from your |
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108 load-path. |
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110 ** With X11R6.4, public-patch-3, Emacs crashes at startup. |
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112 Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem. |
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114 --- xc/lib/X11/imInt.c~ Wed Jun 30 13:31:56 1999 |
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115 +++ xc/lib/X11/imInt.c Thu Jul 1 15:10:27 1999 |
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117 -/* $TOG: imInt.c /main/5 1998/05/30 21:11:16 kaleb $ */ |
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151 This can happen if the dialog widget cannot find the font it wants to |
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152 use. You can work around the problem by specifying another font with |
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158 This happens if your system puts a small limit on stack size. You can |
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159 prevent the problem by using a suitable shell command (often `ulimit') |
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165 ** Error message `Symbol's value as variable is void: x', followed by |
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168 This has been tracked to a bug in tar! People report that tar erroneously |
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173 If your tar has this problem, install GNU tar--if you can manage to |
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176 ** Crashes when displaying GIF images in Emacs built with version |
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177 libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1. |
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178 Configure checks for the correct version, but this problem could occur |
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179 if a binary built against a shared libungif is run on a system with an |
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184 This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the |
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185 terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo. |
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186 If your system has ncurses installed, this might happen if your |
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187 version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses |
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188 and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this. |
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190 All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the |
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191 problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses |
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192 terminfo when built. |
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194 ** Emacs crashes when using the Exceed 6.0 X server. |
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196 If you are using Exceed 6.1, upgrade to a later version. This was |
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197 reported to prevent the crashes. |
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199 ** Emacs crashes with SIGSEGV in XtInitializeWidgetClass. |
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201 It crashes on X, but runs fine when called with option "-nw". |
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203 This has been observed when Emacs is linked with GNU ld but without passing |
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204 the -z nocombreloc flag. Emacs normally knows to pass the -z nocombreloc |
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205 flag when needed, so if you come across a situation where the flag is |
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206 necessary but missing, please report it via M-x report-emacs-bug. |
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208 On platforms such as Solaris, you can also work around this problem by |
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209 configuring your compiler to use the native linker instead of GNU ld. |
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213 This happens because of bugs in Gtk+. Gtk+ 2.10 seems to be OK. See bug |
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214 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715. |
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220 (alignment: 512): Function not implemented |
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224 cygwin malloc, the cygwin memalign always returns ENOSYS. A fix for this |
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231 *** Changes made to .el files do not take effect. |
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241 *** Watch out for .emacs files and EMACSLOADPATH environment vars. |
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243 These control the actions of Emacs. |
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244 ~/.emacs is your Emacs init file. |
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245 EMACSLOADPATH overrides which directories the function |
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246 "load" will search. |
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249 of them, then try again. |
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251 *** Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error. |
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255 "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth" |
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257 This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a |
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258 built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch |
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262 *** Buffers from `with-output-to-temp-buffer' get set up in Help mode. |
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264 Changes in Emacs 20.4 to the hooks used by that function cause |
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265 problems for some packages, specifically BBDB. See the function's |
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266 documentation for the hooks involved. BBDB 2.00.06 fixes the problem. |
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268 *** The Hyperbole package causes *Help* buffers not to be displayed in |
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269 Help mode due to setting `temp-buffer-show-hook' rather than using |
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270 `add-hook'. Using `(add-hook 'temp-buffer-show-hook |
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271 'help-mode-maybe)' after loading Hyperbole should fix this. |
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275 *** "Compose Character" key does strange things when used as a Meta key. |
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277 If you define one key to serve as both Meta and Compose Character, you |
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278 will get strange results. In previous Emacs versions, this "worked" |
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279 in that the key acted as Meta--that's because the older Emacs versions |
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280 did not try to support Compose Character. Now Emacs tries to do |
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281 character composition in the standard X way. This means that you |
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284 You can use both functions (Meta, and Compose Character) if you assign |
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285 them to two different keys. |
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287 *** C-z just refreshes the screen instead of suspending Emacs. |
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289 You are probably using a shell that doesn't support job control, even |
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290 though the system itself is capable of it. Either use a different shell, |
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291 or set the variable `cannot-suspend' to a non-nil value. |
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293 *** With M-x enable-flow-control, you need to type C-\ twice |
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294 to do incremental search--a single C-\ gets no response. |
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296 This has been traced to communicating with your machine via kermit, |
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297 with C-\ as the kermit escape character. One solution is to use |
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298 another escape character in kermit. One user did |
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302 in his .kermrc file, to make C-q the kermit escape character. |
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304 ** Mailers and other helper programs |
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306 *** movemail compiled with POP support can't connect to the POP server. |
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308 Make sure that the `pop' entry in /etc/services, or in the services |
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309 NIS map if your machine uses NIS, has the same port number as the |
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310 entry on the POP server. A common error is for the POP server to be |
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311 listening on port 110, the assigned port for the POP3 protocol, while |
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312 the client is trying to connect on port 109, the assigned port for the |
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313 old POP protocol. |
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317 RMAIL gets new mail from /usr/spool/mail/$USER using a program |
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318 called `movemail'. This program interlocks with /bin/mail using |
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319 the protocol defined by /bin/mail. |
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322 the `flock' system call. The other involves creating a lock file; |
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323 `movemail' must be able to write in /usr/spool/mail in order to do |
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324 this. You control which one is used by defining, or not defining, |
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325 the macro MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the m- or s- file it includes. |
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326 IF YOU DON'T USE THE FORM OF INTERLOCKING THAT IS NORMAL ON YOUR |
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327 SYSTEM, YOU CAN LOSE MAIL! |
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329 If your system uses the lock file protocol, and fascist restrictions |
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330 prevent ordinary users from writing the lock files in /usr/spool/mail, |
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331 you may need to make `movemail' setgid to a suitable group such as |
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332 `mail'. To do this, use the following commands (as root) after doing the |
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341 /usr/local/lib/emacs/VERSION/TARGET. You must change the group and |
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348 The solution is to use gawk (GNU awk). |
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355 *** Gnus can't make contact with the specified host for nntp. |
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357 This typically happens on Suns and other systems that use shared |
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358 libraries. The cause is that the site has installed a version of the |
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359 shared library which uses a name server--but has not installed a |
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362 The result is that most programs, using the shared library, work with |
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363 the nameserver, but Emacs does not. |
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365 The fix is to install an unshared library that corresponds to what you |
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366 installed in the shared library, and then relink Emacs. |
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370 If you have already installed the name resolver in the file libresolv.a, |
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371 then you need to compile Emacs to use that library. The easiest way to |
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372 do this is to add to config.h a definition of LIBS_SYSTEM, LIBS_MACHINE |
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373 or LIB_STANDARD which uses -lresolv. Watch out! If you redefine a macro |
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374 that is already in use in your configuration to supply some other libraries, |
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375 be careful not to lose the others. |
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377 Thus, you could start by adding this to config.h: |
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381 Then if this gives you an error for redefining a macro, and you see that |
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382 the s- file defines LIBS_SYSTEM as -lfoo -lbar, you could change config.h |
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385 #define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar |
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387 *** Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name. |
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389 You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name, |
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390 either in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system |
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391 calls for specifying this. |
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393 If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable |
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394 mail-host-address to the value you want. |
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398 *** Emacs says it has saved a file, but the file does not actually |
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401 This can happen on certain systems when you are using NFS, if the |
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402 remote disk is full. It is due to a bug in NFS (or certain NFS |
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403 implementations), and there is apparently nothing Emacs can do to |
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404 detect the problem. Emacs checks the failure codes of all the system |
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405 calls involved in writing a file, including `close'; but in the case |
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406 where the problem occurs, none of those system calls fails. |
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408 *** Editing files through RFS gives spurious "file has changed" warnings. |
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409 It is possible that a change in Emacs 18.37 gets around this problem, |
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410 but in case not, here is a description of how to fix the RFS bug that |
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411 causes it. |
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413 There was a serious pair of bugs in the handling of the fsync() system |
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414 call in the RFS server. |
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417 close() system call (!!). It appears that fsync() is not used by very |
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418 many programs; Emacs version 18 does an fsync() before closing files |
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419 to make sure that the bits are on the disk. |
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421 This is fixed by the enclosed patch to the RFS server. |
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424 non-blocking system call (i.e., it's implemented as a message that |
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425 gets sent to the remote system without waiting for a reply). Fsync is |
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426 a useful tool for building atomic file transactions. Implementing it |
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427 as a non-blocking RPC call (when the local call blocks until the sync |
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437 *** /tmp/,RCSt1003677 Wed Jan 28 15:15:02 1987 |
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439 *************** |
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441 /* |
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460 `before-change-function' and `after-change-function', which are no |
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483 ((stringp entity) ; a file name |
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492 You should not be using a version older than 11.52 if you can avoid | |
493 it. | |
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497 Emacs 21 needs version 10 or later of AUCTeX; upgrading should solve | |
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502 Upgrade to AUC TeX version 10 or later, and make sure it is |
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503 byte-compiled with Emacs 21. |
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510 directory, some versions of the CVS program return an ambiguous message |
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511 from which PCL-CVS cannot extract the full location of the committed |
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516 This can happen with CVS versions 1.12.8 and 1.12.9. Upgrade to CVS |
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517 1.12.10 or newer to fix this problem. |
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523 This means that the file `etc/DOC-...' doesn't properly correspond |
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524 with the Emacs executable. Redumping Emacs and then installing the |
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525 corresponding pair of files should fix the problem. |
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527 *** Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs' |
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530 The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP |
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531 environment variable. The terminal emulator uses that variable to |
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535 Rewrite your shell startup file so that it does not change TERMCAP |
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537 it only if it is undefined. |
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541 Or you could set TERMCAP only when you set TERM--which should not |
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542 happen in a non-login shell. |
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544 *** In Shell mode, you get a ^M at the end of every line. |
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546 This happens to people who use tcsh, because it is trying to be too |
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547 smart. It sees that the Shell uses terminal type `unknown' and turns |
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548 on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line. You can fix the |
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554 stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z |
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558 *** Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is slow. |
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567 The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems. |
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569 *** Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails. |
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573 ftp client. This was reported to happen on Debian GNU/Linux, kernel |
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575 systems as well. To avoid this problem, switch to using the standard |
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580 and then choose /usr/bin/netkit-ftp. |
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582 *** JPEG images aren't displayed. |
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584 This has been reported when Emacs is built with jpeg-6a library. |
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585 Upgrading to jpeg-6b solves the problem. Configure checks for the |
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586 correct version, but this problem could occur if a binary built |
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587 against a shared libjpeg is run on a system with an older version. |
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591 This could happen if invocation of the `df' program takes a long |
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601 To work around the problem, you could either (a) set the variable |
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602 `directory-free-space-program' to nil, and thus prevent Emacs from |
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603 invoking `df'; (b) use `df' from the GNU Fileutils package; or |
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604 (c) use CVS, which is Free Software, instead of ClearCase. |
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606 *** Versions of the W3 package released before Emacs 21.1 don't run |
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607 under Emacs 21. This fixed in W3 version 4.0pre.47. |
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609 *** The LDAP support rely on ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 2. |
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611 It can fail to work with ldapsearch program from OpenLDAP version 1. |
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612 Version 1 of OpenLDAP is now deprecated. If you are still using it, |
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613 please upgrade to version 2. As a temporary workaround, remove |
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614 argument "-x" from the variable `ldap-ldapsearch-args'. |
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616 *** ps-print commands fail to find prologue files ps-prin*.ps. |
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618 This can happen if you use an old version of X-Symbol package: it |
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619 defines compatibility functions which trick ps-print into thinking it |
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620 runs in XEmacs, and look for the prologue files in a wrong directory. |
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622 The solution is to upgrade X-Symbol to a later version. |
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624 *** On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors |
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625 from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some |
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626 shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support. |
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627 These errors mean Emacs has been linked with a library whose shared |
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628 library is not in the default search path of the dynamic linker. |
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630 Similar problems could prevent Emacs from building, since the build |
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631 process invokes Emacs several times. |
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633 On many systems, it is possible to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your |
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634 environment to specify additional directories where shared libraries |
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637 Other systems allow to set LD_RUN_PATH in a similar way, but before |
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638 Emacs is linked. With LD_RUN_PATH set, the linker will include a |
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639 specified run-time search path in the executable. |
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641 On some systems, Emacs can crash due to problems with dynamic |
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642 linking. Specifically, on SGI Irix 6.5, crashes were reported with |
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643 backtraces like this: |
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646 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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647 1 general_find_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) |
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648 ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":2140, 0xfb65a98] |
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649 2 resolve_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x0, 0xfbdd438, 0x0, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) |
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650 ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":1947, 0xfb657e4] |
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651 3 lazy_text_resolve(0xd18, 0x1a3, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) |
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653 4 _rld_text_resolve(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) |
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656 (`rld' is the dynamic linker.) We don't know yet why this |
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657 happens, but setting the environment variable LD_BIND_NOW to 1 (which |
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661 Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details. |
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663 *** You request inverse video, and the first Emacs frame is in inverse |
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666 This can happen if you have an old version of the custom library in |
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668 check whether this is true. If it is, delete the old custom library. |
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672 This can happen if you compiled the Ispell program to use ASCII |
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673 characters only and then try to use it from Emacs with non-ASCII |
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674 characters, like Latin-1. The solution is to recompile Ispell with |
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675 support for 8-bit characters. |
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677 To see whether your Ispell program supports 8-bit characters, type |
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682 and look in the output for the string "NO8BIT". If Ispell says |
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686 To rebuild Ispell with 8-bit character support, edit the local.h file |
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687 in the Ispell distribution and make sure it does _not_ define NO8BIT. |
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691 version of Ispell installed on your machine is old. Upgrade. |
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695 Ispell. (Ispell can only spell-check one language at a time, because |
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697 spelling and the dictionary used by Ispell conform to each other. |
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699 If your spell-checking program is Aspell, it has been reported that if |
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706 ** Under X11, some characters appear as hollow boxes. |
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708 Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs |
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712 If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X |
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713 server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes. |
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714 You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts. |
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718 of fonts (available from <URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/> and |
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719 <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/mirror/X.Org/contrib/fonts/>) includes |
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720 fonts that can display many Unicode characters; they can also be used |
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721 by ps-print and ps-mule to print Unicode characters. |
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723 Another cause of this for specific characters is fonts which have a |
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724 missing glyph and no default character. This is known to occur for |
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725 character number 160 (no-break space) in some fonts, such as Lucida |
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726 but Emacs sets the display table for the unibyte and Latin-1 version |
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727 of this character to display a space. |
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729 ** Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines. |
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731 You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution |
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732 or the etl-unicode collection (see the previous entry). |
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734 ** Certain fonts make each line take one pixel more than it "should". |
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736 This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller |
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738 lines do not overlap. |
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740 ** Loading fonts is very slow. |
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742 You might be getting scalable fonts instead of precomputed bitmaps. |
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743 Known scalable font directories are "Type1" and "Speedo". A font |
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744 directory contains scalable fonts if it contains the file |
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745 "fonts.scale". |
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747 If this is so, re-order your X windows font path to put the scalable |
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748 font directories last. See the documentation of `xset' for details. |
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750 With some X servers, it may be necessary to take the scalable font |
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751 directories out of your path entirely, at least for Emacs 19.26. |
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752 Changes in the future may make this unnecessary. |
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754 ** Font Lock displays portions of the buffer in incorrect faces. |
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756 By far the most frequent cause of this is a parenthesis `(' or a brace |
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757 `{' in column zero. Font Lock assumes that such a paren is outside of |
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758 any comment or string. This is of course not true in general, but the |
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759 vast majority of well-formatted program source files don't have such |
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760 parens, and therefore this assumption is used to allow optimizations |
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762 pathological cases where jit-lock, the Just-in-Time fontification |
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763 introduced with Emacs 21.1, could significantly slow down scrolling |
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769 to indicate that it could interfere with Font Lock (and also with |
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770 indentation) and should be moved or escaped with a backslash. |
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774 fontification by setting the variable |
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776 be done _after_ turning on Font Lock.) |
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778 Another alternative is to avoid a paren in column zero. For example, |
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779 in a Lisp string you could precede the paren with a backslash. |
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784 One user on a Linux-based GNU system reported that this problem went |
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822 This is caused by fonts having a wrong UNDERLINE_POSITION property. |
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823 Examples are the font 7x13 on XFree prior to version 4.1, or the jmk |
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824 neep font from the Debian xfonts-jmk package. To circumvent this |
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825 problem, set x-use-underline-position-properties to nil in your |
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826 `.emacs'. |
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828 To see what is the value of UNDERLINE_POSITION defined by the font, |
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829 type `xlsfonts -lll FONT' and look at the font's UNDERLINE_POSITION |
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830 property. |
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832 ** When using Exceed, fonts sometimes appear too tall. |
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834 When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified |
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835 (either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources) |
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836 then the fonts may appear "too tall". The actual character sizes are |
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837 correct but there is too much vertical spacing between rows, which |
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838 gives the appearance of "double spacing". |
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840 To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution" |
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843 * Internationalization problems |
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845 ** M-{ does not work on a Spanish PC keyboard. |
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847 Many Spanish keyboards seem to ignore that combination. Emacs can't |
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848 do anything about it. |
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850 ** Characters from the mule-unicode charsets aren't displayed under X. |
47994 | 851 |
852 XFree86 4 contains many fonts in iso10646-1 encoding which have | |
51316 | 853 minimal character repertoires (whereas the encoding part of the font |
854 name is meant to be a reasonable indication of the repertoire | |
855 according to the XLFD spec). Emacs may choose one of these to display | |
856 characters from the mule-unicode charsets and then typically won't be | |
857 able to find the glyphs to display many characters. (Check with C-u | |
858 C-x = .) To avoid this, you may need to use a fontset which sets the | |
859 font for the mule-unicode sets explicitly. E.g. to use GNU unifont, | |
860 include in the fontset spec: | |
47994 | 861 |
862 mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ | |
863 mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ | |
864 mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1 | |
865 | |
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868 Emacs directly supports the Unicode BMP whose code points are in the |
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869 ranges 0000-33ff and e000-ffff, and indirectly supports the parts of |
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872 GB2312, Big5, JISX0208, JISX0212, JISX0213-1, JISX0213-2, KSC5601 |
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874 The latter support is done in Utf-Translate-Cjk mode (turned on by |
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875 default). Which Unicode CJK characters are decoded into which Emacs |
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877 in Chinese-GB, most of them are decoded into chinese-gb2312. |
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879 If you read UTF-8 data with code points outside these ranges, the | |
880 characters appear in the buffer as raw bytes of the original UTF-8 | |
881 (composed into a single quasi-character) and they will be written back | |
882 correctly as UTF-8, assuming you don't break the composed sequences. | |
883 If you read such characters from UTF-16 or UTF-7 data, they are | |
884 substituted with the Unicode `replacement character', and you lose | |
885 information. | |
886 | |
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887 ** Mule-UCS loads very slowly. |
46677 | 888 |
889 Changes to Emacs internals interact badly with Mule-UCS's `un-define' | |
890 library, which is the usual interface to Mule-UCS. Apply the | |
891 following patch to Mule-UCS 0.84 and rebuild it. That will help, | |
892 though loading will still be slower than in Emacs 20. (Some | |
893 distributions, such as Debian, may already have applied such a patch.) | |
894 | |
895 --- lisp/un-define.el 6 Mar 2001 22:41:38 -0000 1.30 | |
896 +++ lisp/un-define.el 19 Apr 2002 18:34:26 -0000 | |
897 @@ -610,13 +624,21 @@ by calling post-read-conversion and pre- | |
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46677 | 899 (mapcar |
900 (lambda (x) | |
901 - (mapcar | |
902 - (lambda (y) | |
903 - (mucs-define-coding-system | |
904 - (nth 0 y) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y) | |
905 - (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y) (nth 6 y)) | |
906 - (coding-system-put (car y) 'alias-coding-systems (list (car x)))) | |
907 - (cdr x))) | |
908 + (if (fboundp 'register-char-codings) | |
909 + ;; Mule 5, where we don't need the eol-type specified and | |
910 + ;; register-char-codings may be very slow for these coding | |
911 + ;; system definitions. | |
912 + (let ((y (cadr x))) | |
913 + (mucs-define-coding-system | |
914 + (car x) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y) | |
915 + (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y))) | |
916 + (mapcar | |
917 + (lambda (y) | |
918 + (mucs-define-coding-system | |
919 + (nth 0 y) (nth 1 y) (nth 2 y) | |
920 + (nth 3 y) (nth 4 y) (nth 5 y) (nth 6 y)) | |
921 + (coding-system-put (car y) 'alias-coding-systems (list (car x))))) | |
922 + (cdr x))) | |
923 `((utf-8 | |
924 (utf-8-unix | |
925 ?u "UTF-8 coding system" | |
926 | |
927 Note that Emacs has native support for Unicode, roughly equivalent to | |
928 Mule-UCS's, so you may not need it. | |
929 | |
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930 ** Mule-UCS compilation problem. |
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932 Emacs of old versions and XEmacs byte-compile the form `(progn progn |
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936 make it compiled by the latest Emacs. |
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941 (mucs-notify-embedment 'mucs-ccl-required name) |
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942 (setq ccl-pgm-list (cdr ccl-pgm-list))) |
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957 ;;; Add hook for embedding translation informations to a package. |
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964 that is not 8-bit clean. If the problem goes away with another font |
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965 size, it's probably because some fonts pretend to be ISO-8859-1 fonts |
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51132 | 983 slots now. The current built-in Unicode support is actually more |
984 flexible. (Use option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' if you need CJK | |
985 support.) Files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode aren't | |
986 generally read correctly by Emacs 21. | |
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990 The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does | |
991 (standard-display-european t) | |
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1001 This is because the Compose Character key is defined as the keysym | |
1002 Multi_key, and Emacs (seeing that) does the proper X11 | |
1003 character-composition processing. If you don't want your Compose key | |
1004 to do that, you can redefine it with xmodmap. | |
1005 | |
1006 For example, here's one way to turn it into a Meta key: | |
1007 | |
1008 xmodmap -e "keysym Multi_key = Meta_L" | |
1009 | |
1010 If all users at your site of a particular keyboard prefer Meta to | |
1011 Compose, you can make the remapping happen automatically by adding the | |
1012 xmodmap command to the xdm setup script for that display. | |
1013 | |
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1028 Another is to specify `Emacs*useXIM: false' in your X resources. |
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1030 Another is to build Emacs with the `--without-xim' configure option. |
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1032 The same problem happens on any other system if you are using fcitx |
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1033 (Chinese input method) which by default use C-SPC for toggling. If |
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1034 you want to use fcitx with Emacs, you have two choices. Toggle fcitx |
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1035 by another key (e.g. C-\) by modifying ~/.fcitx/config, or be |
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1036 accustomed to use C-@ for `set-mark-command'. |
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1040 See if your X server is set up to use this as a command |
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1041 for character composition. |
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1043 *** The S-C-t key combination doesn't get passed to Emacs on X. |
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1045 This happens because some X configurations assign the Ctrl-Shift-t |
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1046 combination the same meaning as the Multi_key. The offending |
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1047 definition is in the file `...lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose'; there |
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1048 might be other similar combinations which are grabbed by X for similar |
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1051 We think that this can be countermanded with the `xmodmap' utility, if |
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1052 you want to be able to bind one of these key sequences within Emacs. |
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1054 *** Under X, C-v and/or other keys don't work. |
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1056 These may have been intercepted by your window manager. In |
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1057 particular, AfterStep 1.6 is reported to steal C-v in its default |
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1058 configuration. Various Meta keys are also likely to be taken by the |
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1059 configuration of the `feel'. See the WM's documentation for how to |
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1062 *** Clicking C-mouse-2 in the scroll bar doesn't split the window. |
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1064 This currently doesn't work with scroll-bar widgets (and we don't know |
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1065 a good way of implementing it with widgets). If Emacs is configured |
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1066 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work. |
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1068 *** Inability to send an Alt-modified key, when Emacs is communicating |
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1070 | |
1071 If you have tried to bind an Alt-modified key as a command, and it | |
1072 does not work to type the command, the first thing you should check is | |
1073 whether the key is getting through to Emacs. To do this, type C-h c | |
1074 followed by the Alt-modified key. C-h c should say what kind of event | |
1075 it read. If it says it read an Alt-modified key, then make sure you | |
1076 have made the key binding correctly. | |
1077 | |
1078 If C-h c reports an event that doesn't have the Alt modifier, it may | |
1079 be because your X server has no key for the Alt modifier. The X | |
1080 server that comes from MIT does not set up the Alt modifier by | |
1081 default. | |
1082 | |
1083 If your keyboard has keys named Alt, you can enable them as follows: | |
1084 | |
1085 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_L' | |
1086 xmodmap -e 'add mod2 = Alt_R' | |
1087 | |
1088 If the keyboard has just one key named Alt, then only one of those | |
1089 commands is needed. The modifier `mod2' is a reasonable choice if you | |
1090 are using an unmodified MIT version of X. Otherwise, choose any | |
1091 modifier bit not otherwise used. | |
1092 | |
1093 If your keyboard does not have keys named Alt, you can use some other | |
1094 keys. Use the keysym command in xmodmap to turn a function key (or | |
1095 some other 'spare' key) into Alt_L or into Alt_R, and then use the | |
1096 commands show above to make them modifier keys. | |
1097 | |
1098 Note that if you have Alt keys but no Meta keys, Emacs translates Alt | |
1099 into Meta. This is because of the great importance of Meta in Emacs. | |
1100 | |
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1116 incompatibility of the Gnome terminal with Xterm, which also affects |
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1117 other programs using the Xterm mouse interface. A problem report has |
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1145 *** KDE: Emacs hangs on KDE when a large portion of text is killed. |
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1151 while, Emacs may print a message: |
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1158 *** CDE: Frames may cover dialogs they created when using CDE. |
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1160 This can happen if you have "Allow Primary Windows On Top" enabled which |
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1162 To change, go in to "Desktop Controls" -> "Window Style Manager" |
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1163 and uncheck "Allow Primary Windows On Top". |
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1165 *** Xaw3d : When using Xaw3d scroll bars without arrows, the very first mouse |
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1166 click in a scroll bar might be ignored by the scroll bar widget. This |
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1170 *** Xaw: There are known binary incompatibilities between Xaw, Xaw3d, neXtaw, |
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1171 XawM and the few other derivatives of Xaw. So when you compile with |
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1172 one of these, it may not work to dynamically link with another one. |
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1173 For example, strange problems, such as Emacs exiting when you type |
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1174 "C-x 1", were reported when Emacs compiled with Xaw3d and libXaw was |
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1175 used with neXtaw at run time. |
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1178 want to use, or set LD_PRELOAD to preload the same toolkit version you |
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1184 graphical file dialog boxes do not work properly. The "OK", "Filter" |
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1185 and "Cancel" buttons do not respond to mouse clicks. Dragging the |
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1188 The solution is to use LessTif instead. LessTif is a free replacement |
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1191 Another workaround is not to use the mouse to trigger file prompts, |
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1192 but to use the keyboard. This way, you will be prompted for a file in |
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1197 The problems seem to depend on the version of LessTif and the Motif |
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1200 Only the Motif 1.2 emulation seems to be stable enough in LessTif. |
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1201 Lesstif 0.92-17's Motif 1.2 emulation seems to work okay on FreeBSD. |
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1203 --enable-build-12 --enable-default-12" is reported to be the most |
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1204 successful. The binary GNU/Linux package |
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1205 lesstif-devel-0.92.0-1.i386.rpm was reported to have problems with |
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1209 locks up, grabbing all mouse and keyboard events. We still don't know |
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1210 what causes these problems; they are not reproducible by Emacs |
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1213 *** Motif: The Motif version of Emacs paints the screen a solid color. |
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1215 This has been observed to result from the following X resource: |
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1219 That the resource has this effect indicates a bug in something, but we |
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1220 do not yet know what. If it is an Emacs bug, we hope someone can |
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1221 explain what the bug is so we can fix it. In the mean time, removing |
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1222 the resource prevents the problem. |
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1228 We've noticed that certain X servers draw the text much slower when |
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1230 happens to you, you can work around it by putting the scroll bars |
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1233 Here's how to do this: |
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1238 try that and see how much difference it makes. To set things back |
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1243 *** Error messages about undefined colors on X. |
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1245 The messages might say something like this: |
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1247 Unable to load color "grey95" |
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1251 Error while displaying tooltip: (error Undefined color lightyellow) |
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1253 These problems could happen if some other X program has used up too |
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1254 many colors of the X palette, leaving Emacs with insufficient system |
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1255 resources to load all the colors it needs. |
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1257 A solution is to exit the offending X programs before starting Emacs. |
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1260 X configuration file is incorrect, or the rgb.txt file is not where | |
1261 X expects to find it. | |
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1263 *** Improving performance with slow X connections. |
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1265 There are several ways to improve this performance, any subset of which can |
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1266 be carried out at the same time: |
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1269 language you use, you can improve performance on WAN links by using |
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1270 the X resource useXIM to turn off use of XIM. This does not affect |
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1272 package. |
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1274 2) If the connection is very slow, you might also want to consider |
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1275 switching off scroll bars, menu bar, and tool bar. Adding the |
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1276 following forms to your .emacs file will accomplish that, but only |
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1277 after the the initial frame is displayed: |
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1279 (scroll-bar-mode -1) |
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1280 (menu-bar-mode -1) |
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1281 (tool-bar-mode -1) |
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1283 For still quicker startup, put these X resources in your .Xdefaults |
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1284 file: |
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1286 Emacs.verticalScrollBars: off |
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1287 Emacs.menuBar: off |
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1290 3) Use ssh to forward the X connection, and enable compression on this |
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1291 forwarded X connection (ssh -XC remotehostname emacs ...). |
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1293 4) Use lbxproxy on the remote end of the connection. This is an interface |
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1294 to the low bandwidth X extension in most modern X servers, which |
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1295 improves performance dramatically, at the slight expense of correctness |
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1296 of the X protocol. lbxproxy acheives the performance gain by grouping |
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1297 several X requests in one TCP packet and sending them off together, |
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1298 instead of requiring a round-trip for each X request in a seperate |
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1299 packet. The switches that seem to work best for emacs are: |
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1300 -noatomsfile -nowinattr -cheaterrors -cheatevents |
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1301 Note that the -nograbcmap option is known to cause problems. |
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1302 For more about lbxproxy, see: |
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1303 http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/lbxproxy.1.html |
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1310 *** Emacs gives the error, Couldn't find per display information. |
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1312 This can result if the X server runs out of memory because Emacs uses |
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1313 a large number of fonts. On systems where this happens, C-h h is |
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1314 likely to cause it. |
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1316 We do not know of a way to prevent the problem. |
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1318 *** Emacs does not notice when you release the mouse. |
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1320 There are reports that this happened with (some) Microsoft mice and |
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1321 that replacing the mouse made it stop. |
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1323 *** You can't select from submenus (in the X toolkit version). |
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1325 On certain systems, mouse-tracking and selection in top-level menus |
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1326 works properly with the X toolkit, but neither of them works when you |
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1327 bring up a submenu (such as Bookmarks or Compare or Apply Patch, in |
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1328 the Files menu). |
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1330 This works on most systems. There is speculation that the failure is |
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1331 due to bugs in old versions of X toolkit libraries, but no one really |
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1332 knows. If someone debugs this and finds the precise cause, perhaps a |
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1333 workaround can be found. |
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1335 *** An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid |
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1336 parameter attributes) on protocol request 93'. |
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1338 This comes from having an invalid X resource, such as |
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1339 emacs*Cursor: black |
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1340 (which is invalid because it specifies a color name for something |
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1341 that isn't a color.) |
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1343 The fix is to correct your X resources. |
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1345 *** Slow startup on X11R6 with X windows. |
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1347 If Emacs takes two minutes to start up on X11R6, see if your X |
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1348 resources specify any Adobe fonts. That causes the type-1 font |
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1349 renderer to start up, even if the font you asked for is not a type-1 |
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1352 One way to avoid this problem is to eliminate the type-1 fonts from |
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1353 your font path, like this: |
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1357 *** Pull-down menus appear in the wrong place, in the toolkit version of Emacs. |
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1359 An X resource of this form can cause the problem: |
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1361 Emacs*geometry: 80x55+0+0 |
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1363 This resource is supposed to apply, and does apply, to the menus |
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1364 individually as well as to Emacs frames. If that is not what you |
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1365 want, rewrite the resource. |
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1367 To check thoroughly for such resource specifications, use `xrdb |
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1368 -query' to see what resources the X server records, and also look at |
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1374 One cause of such problems is having (setq term-file-prefix nil) in | |
1375 your .emacs file. Another cause is a bad value of EMACSLOADPATH in | |
1376 the environment. | |
1377 | |
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1378 *** Emacs fails to get default settings from X Windows server. |
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1380 The X library in X11R4 has a bug; it interchanges the 2nd and 3rd | |
1381 arguments to XGetDefaults. Define the macro XBACKWARDS in config.h to | |
1382 tell Emacs to compensate for this. | |
1383 | |
1384 I don't believe there is any way Emacs can determine for itself | |
1385 whether this problem is present on a given system. | |
1386 | |
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1387 *** X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname. |
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1389 People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause Emacs | |
1390 not to work with X Windows if DISPLAY is set using a host name. But | |
1391 the problem does not occur if DISPLAY is set to `unix:0.0'. I think | |
1392 the bug has to do with SIGIO or FIONREAD. | |
1393 | |
1394 You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil). | |
1395 However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that | |
1396 you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g. | |
1397 | |
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1400 (setq x-sigio-bug t) | |
1401 | |
1402 in your site-init.el file. | |
1403 | |
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1406 ** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen. |
25853 | 1407 |
1408 This means that Control-S/Control-Q (XON/XOFF) "flow control" is being | |
1409 used. C-s/C-q flow control is bad for Emacs editors because it takes | |
1410 away C-s and C-q as user commands. Since editors do not output long | |
1411 streams of text without user commands, there is no need for a | |
1412 user-issuable "stop output" command in an editor; therefore, a | |
1413 properly designed flow control mechanism would transmit all possible | |
1414 input characters without interference. Designing such a mechanism is | |
1415 easy, for a person with at least half a brain. | |
1416 | |
1417 There are three possible reasons why flow control could be taking place: | |
1418 | |
1419 1) Terminal has not been told to disable flow control | |
1420 2) Insufficient padding for the terminal in use | |
1421 3) Some sort of terminal concentrator or line switch is responsible | |
1422 | |
1423 First of all, many terminals have a set-up mode which controls whether | |
1424 they generate XON/XOFF flow control characters. This must be set to | |
1425 "no XON/XOFF" in order for Emacs to work. Sometimes there is an | |
1426 escape sequence that the computer can send to turn flow control off | |
1427 and on. If so, perhaps the termcap `ti' string should turn flow | |
1428 control off, and the `te' string should turn it on. | |
1429 | |
1430 Once the terminal has been told "no flow control", you may find it | |
1431 needs more padding. The amount of padding Emacs sends is controlled | |
1432 by the termcap entry for the terminal in use, and by the output baud | |
1433 rate as known by the kernel. The shell command `stty' will print | |
1434 your output baud rate; `stty' with suitable arguments will set it if | |
1435 it is wrong. Setting to a higher speed causes increased padding. If | |
1436 the results are wrong for the correct speed, there is probably a | |
1437 problem in the termcap entry. You must speak to a local Unix wizard | |
1438 to fix this. Perhaps you are just using the wrong terminal type. | |
1439 | |
1440 For terminals that lack a "no flow control" mode, sometimes just | |
1441 giving lots of padding will prevent actual generation of flow control | |
1442 codes. You might as well try it. | |
1443 | |
1444 If you are really unlucky, your terminal is connected to the computer | |
1445 through a concentrator which sends XON/XOFF flow control to the | |
1446 computer, or it insists on sending flow control itself no matter how | |
1447 much padding you give it. Unless you can figure out how to turn flow | |
1448 control off on this concentrator (again, refer to your local wizard), | |
1449 you are screwed! You should have the terminal or concentrator | |
1450 replaced with a properly designed one. In the mean time, some drastic | |
1451 measures can make Emacs semi-work. | |
1452 | |
1453 You can make Emacs ignore C-s and C-q and let the operating system | |
1454 handle them. To do this on a per-session basis, just type M-x | |
1455 enable-flow-control RET. You will see a message that C-\ and C-^ are | |
1456 now translated to C-s and C-q. (Use the same command M-x | |
1457 enable-flow-control to turn *off* this special mode. It toggles flow | |
1458 control handling.) | |
1459 | |
1460 If C-\ and C-^ are inconvenient for you (for example, if one of them | |
1461 is the escape character of your terminal concentrator), you can choose | |
1462 other characters by setting the variables flow-control-c-s-replacement | |
1463 and flow-control-c-q-replacement. But choose carefully, since all | |
1464 other control characters are already used by emacs. | |
1465 | |
1466 IMPORTANT: if you type C-s by accident while flow control is enabled, | |
1467 Emacs output will freeze, and you will have to remember to type C-q in | |
1468 order to continue. | |
1469 | |
1470 If you work in an environment where a majority of terminals of a | |
1471 certain type are flow control hobbled, you can use the function | |
1472 `enable-flow-control-on' to turn on this flow control avoidance scheme | |
1473 automatically. Here is an example: | |
1474 | |
1475 (enable-flow-control-on "vt200" "vt300" "vt101" "vt131") | |
1476 | |
1477 If this isn't quite correct (e.g. you have a mixture of flow-control hobbled | |
1478 and good vt200 terminals), you can still run enable-flow-control | |
1479 manually. | |
1480 | |
1481 I have no intention of ever redesigning the Emacs command set for the | |
1482 assumption that terminals use C-s/C-q flow control. XON/XOFF flow | |
1483 control technique is a bad design, and terminals that need it are bad | |
1484 merchandise and should not be purchased. Now that X is becoming | |
1485 widespread, XON/XOFF seems to be on the way out. If you can get some | |
1486 use out of GNU Emacs on inferior terminals, more power to you, but I | |
1487 will not make Emacs worse for properly designed systems for the sake | |
1488 of inferior systems. | |
1489 | |
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1490 ** Control-S and Control-Q commands are ignored completely. |
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1492 For some reason, your system is using brain-damaged C-s/C-q flow | |
1493 control despite Emacs's attempts to turn it off. Perhaps your | |
1494 terminal is connected to the computer through a concentrator | |
1495 that wants to use flow control. | |
1496 | |
1497 You should first try to tell the concentrator not to use flow control. | |
1498 If you succeed in this, try making the terminal work without | |
1499 flow control, as described in the preceding section. | |
1500 | |
1501 If that line of approach is not successful, map some other characters | |
1502 into C-s and C-q using keyboard-translate-table. The example above | |
1503 shows how to do this with C-^ and C-\. | |
1504 | |
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1505 ** Screen is updated wrong, but only on one kind of terminal. |
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1507 This could mean that the termcap entry you are using for that | |
1508 terminal is wrong, or it could mean that Emacs has a bug handing | |
1509 the combination of features specified for that terminal. | |
1510 | |
1511 The first step in tracking this down is to record what characters | |
1512 Emacs is sending to the terminal. Execute the Lisp expression | |
1513 (open-termscript "./emacs-script") to make Emacs write all | |
1514 terminal output into the file ~/emacs-script as well; then do | |
1515 what makes the screen update wrong, and look at the file | |
1516 and decode the characters using the manual for the terminal. | |
1517 There are several possibilities: | |
1518 | |
1519 1) The characters sent are correct, according to the terminal manual. | |
1520 | |
1521 In this case, there is no obvious bug in Emacs, and most likely you | |
1522 need more padding, or possibly the terminal manual is wrong. | |
1523 | |
1524 2) The characters sent are incorrect, due to an obscure aspect | |
1525 of the terminal behavior not described in an obvious way | |
1526 by termcap. | |
1527 | |
1528 This case is hard. It will be necessary to think of a way for | |
1529 Emacs to distinguish between terminals with this kind of behavior | |
1530 and other terminals that behave subtly differently but are | |
1531 classified the same by termcap; or else find an algorithm for | |
1532 Emacs to use that avoids the difference. Such changes must be | |
1533 tested on many kinds of terminals. | |
1534 | |
1535 3) The termcap entry is wrong. | |
1536 | |
1537 See the file etc/TERMS for information on changes | |
1538 that are known to be needed in commonly used termcap entries | |
1539 for certain terminals. | |
1540 | |
1541 4) The characters sent are incorrect, and clearly cannot be | |
1542 right for any terminal with the termcap entry you were using. | |
1543 | |
1544 This is unambiguously an Emacs bug, and can probably be fixed | |
1545 in termcap.c, tparam.c, term.c, scroll.c, cm.c or dispnew.c. | |
1546 | |
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1549 Some versions of rlogin (and possibly telnet) do not pass flow |
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1551 On such systems, emacs on the remote system cannot disable flow |
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1554 One way to cure this is to disable flow control on the local host |
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1555 (the one running rlogin, not the one running rlogind) using the |
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1556 stty command, before starting the rlogin process. On many systems, |
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1557 "stty start u stop u" will do this. |
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1559 Some versions of tcsh will prevent even this from working. One way |
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1560 around this is to start another shell before starting rlogin, and |
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1561 issue the stty command to disable flow control from that shell. |
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1563 If none of these methods work, the best solution is to type |
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1564 M-x enable-flow-control at the beginning of your emacs session, or |
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1565 if you expect the problem to continue, add a line such as the |
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1566 following to your .emacs (on the host running rlogind): |
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1570 See the entry about spontaneous display of I-search (above) for more |
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1571 info. |
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1573 ** Output from Control-V is slow. |
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1575 On many bit-map terminals, scrolling operations are fairly slow. | |
1576 Often the termcap entry for the type of terminal in use fails | |
1577 to inform Emacs of this. The two lines at the bottom of the screen | |
1578 before a Control-V command are supposed to appear at the top after | |
1579 the Control-V command. If Emacs thinks scrolling the lines is fast, | |
1580 it will scroll them to the top of the screen. | |
1581 | |
1582 If scrolling is slow but Emacs thinks it is fast, the usual reason is | |
1583 that the termcap entry for the terminal you are using does not | |
1584 specify any padding time for the `al' and `dl' strings. Emacs | |
1585 concludes that these operations take only as much time as it takes to | |
1586 send the commands at whatever line speed you are using. You must | |
1587 fix the termcap entry to specify, for the `al' and `dl', as much | |
1588 time as the operations really take. | |
1589 | |
1590 Currently Emacs thinks in terms of serial lines which send characters | |
1591 at a fixed rate, so that any operation which takes time for the | |
1592 terminal to execute must also be padded. With bit-map terminals | |
1593 operated across networks, often the network provides some sort of | |
1594 flow control so that padding is never needed no matter how slow | |
1595 an operation is. You must still specify a padding time if you want | |
1596 Emacs to realize that the operation takes a long time. This will | |
1597 cause padding characters to be sent unnecessarily, but they do | |
1598 not really cost much. They will be transmitted while the scrolling | |
1599 is happening and then discarded quickly by the terminal. | |
1600 | |
1601 Most bit-map terminals provide commands for inserting or deleting | |
1602 multiple lines at once. Define the `AL' and `DL' strings in the | |
1603 termcap entry to say how to do these things, and you will have | |
1604 fast output without wasted padding characters. These strings should | |
1605 each contain a single %-spec saying how to send the number of lines | |
1606 to be scrolled. These %-specs are like those in the termcap | |
1607 `cm' string. | |
1608 | |
1609 You should also define the `IC' and `DC' strings if your terminal | |
1610 has a command to insert or delete multiple characters. These | |
1611 take the number of positions to insert or delete as an argument. | |
1612 | |
1613 A `cs' string to set the scrolling region will reduce the amount | |
1614 of motion you see on the screen when part of the screen is scrolled. | |
1615 | |
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1616 ** You type Control-H (Backspace) expecting to delete characters. |
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1618 Put `stty dec' in your .login file and your problems will disappear | |
1619 after a day or two. | |
1620 | |
1621 The choice of Backspace for erasure was based on confusion, caused by | |
1622 the fact that backspacing causes erasure (later, when you type another | |
1623 character) on most display terminals. But it is a mistake. Deletion | |
1624 of text is not the same thing as backspacing followed by failure to | |
1625 overprint. I do not wish to propagate this confusion by conforming | |
1626 to it. | |
1627 | |
1628 For this reason, I believe `stty dec' is the right mode to use, | |
1629 and I have designed Emacs to go with that. If there were a thousand | |
1630 other control characters, I would define Control-h to delete as well; | |
1631 but there are not very many other control characters, and I think | |
1632 that providing the most mnemonic possible Help character is more | |
1633 important than adapting to people who don't use `stty dec'. | |
1634 | |
1635 If you are obstinate about confusing buggy overprinting with deletion, | |
1636 you can redefine Backspace in your .emacs file: | |
1637 (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char) | |
1638 You can probably access help-command via f1. | |
1639 | |
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1642 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal |
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1643 emulators, but this support relies on the terminfo or termcap database |
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1644 entry to specify that the display supports color. Emacs looks at the |
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1645 "Co" capability for the terminal to find out how many colors are |
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1646 supported; it should be non-zero to activate the color support within |
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1647 Emacs. (Most color terminals support 8 or 16 colors.) If your system |
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1648 uses terminfo, the name of the capability equivalent to "Co" is |
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1651 In addition to the "Co" capability, Emacs needs the "op" (for |
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1652 ``original pair'') capability, which tells how to switch the terminal |
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1653 back to the default foreground and background colors. Emacs will not |
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1654 use colors if this capability is not defined. If your terminal entry |
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1655 doesn't provide such a capability, try using the ANSI standard escape |
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1657 it use your current terminal's entry plus \E[00m for the "op" |
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1660 Finally, the "NC" capability (terminfo name: "ncv") tells Emacs which |
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1661 attributes cannot be used with colors. Setting this capability |
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1662 incorrectly might have the effect of disabling colors; try setting |
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1663 this capability to `0' (zero) and see if that helps. |
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1665 Emacs uses the database entry for the terminal whose name is the value |
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1666 of the environment variable TERM. With `xterm', a common terminal |
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1667 entry that supports color is `xterm-color', so setting TERM's value to |
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1668 `xterm-color' might activate the color support on an xterm-compatible |
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1669 emulator. |
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1671 Beginning with version 22.1, Emacs supports the --color command-line |
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1672 option which may be used to force Emacs to use one of a few popular |
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1673 modes for getting colors on a tty. For example, --color=ansi8 sets up |
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1674 for using the ANSI-standard escape sequences that support 8 colors. |
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1676 Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the Font-lock mode. |
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1677 Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on |
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1678 Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty. The |
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1679 recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing "M-x |
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1680 global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the variable |
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1681 `global-font-lock-mode'. |
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1683 * Runtime problems specific to individual Unix variants |
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1687 *** GNU/Linux: Process output is corrupted. |
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1689 There is a bug in Linux kernel 2.6.10 PTYs that can cause emacs to |
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1690 read corrupted process output. |
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1692 *** GNU/Linux: Remote access to CVS with SSH causes file corruption. |
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1694 If you access a remote CVS repository via SSH, files may be corrupted |
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1695 due to bad interaction between CVS, SSH, and libc. |
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1697 To fix the problem, save the following script into a file, make it |
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1698 executable, and set CVS_RSH environment variable to the file name of |
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1699 the script: |
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1701 #!/bin/bash |
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1702 exec 2> >(exec cat >&2 2>/dev/null) |
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1703 exec ssh "$@" |
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1705 *** GNU/Linux: On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through |
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1706 5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault. |
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1708 This problem happens if libc defines the symbol __malloc_initialized. |
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1709 One known solution is to upgrade to a newer libc version. 5.4.33 is |
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1710 known to work. |
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1712 *** GNU/Linux: After upgrading to a newer version of Emacs, |
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1713 the Meta key stops working. |
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1715 This was reported to happen on a GNU/Linux system distributed by |
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1716 Mandrake. The reason is that the previous version of Emacs was |
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1717 modified by Mandrake to make the Alt key act as the Meta key, on a |
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1718 keyboard where the Windows key is the one which produces the Meta |
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1719 modifier. A user who started using a newer version of Emacs, which |
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1720 was not hacked by Mandrake, expected the Alt key to continue to act as |
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1721 Meta, and was astonished when that didn't happen. |
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1723 The solution is to find out what key on your keyboard produces the Meta |
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1724 modifier, and use that key instead. Try all of the keys to the left |
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1725 and to the right of the space bar, together with the `x' key, and see |
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1726 which combination produces "M-x" in the echo area. You can also use |
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1727 the `xmodmap' utility to show all the keys which produce a Meta |
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1728 modifier: |
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1730 xmodmap -pk | egrep -i "meta|alt" |
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1732 A more convenient way of finding out which keys produce a Meta modifier |
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1733 is to use the `xkbprint' utility, if it's available on your system: |
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1735 xkbprint 0:0 /tmp/k.ps |
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1737 This produces a PostScript file `/tmp/k.ps' with a picture of your |
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1738 keyboard; printing that file on a PostScript printer will show what |
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1739 keys can serve as Meta. |
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1741 The `xkeycaps' also shows a visual representation of the current |
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1742 keyboard settings. It also allows to modify them. |
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71200 | 1744 *** GNU/Linux: slow startup on Linux-based GNU systems. |
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1746 People using systems based on the Linux kernel sometimes report that |
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1747 startup takes 10 to 15 seconds longer than `usual'. |
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1749 This is because Emacs looks up the host name when it starts. |
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1750 Normally, this takes negligible time; the extra delay is due to |
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1751 improper system configuration. This problem can occur for both |
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1752 networked and non-networked machines. |
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1754 Here is how to fix the configuration. It requires being root. |
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1756 **** Networked Case. |
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1758 First, make sure the files `/etc/hosts' and `/etc/host.conf' both |
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1759 exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this |
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1760 (replace HOSTNAME with your host name): |
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1762 127.0.0.1 HOSTNAME |
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1764 Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following |
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1765 lines: |
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1767 order hosts, bind |
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1768 multi on |
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1770 Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be |
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1771 indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local |
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1772 database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections |
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1773 dynamically allocate ip addresses). |
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1775 **** Non-Networked Case. |
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1778 However, if you never intend to network your machine, you can use a |
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1779 simpler solution: create an empty `/etc/host.conf' file. The command |
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1780 `touch /etc/host.conf' suffices to create the file. The `/etc/hosts' |
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1781 file is not necessary with this approach. |
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1783 *** GNU/Linux: Emacs on a tty switches the cursor to large blinking block. |
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1785 This was reported to happen on some GNU/Linux systems which use |
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1786 ncurses version 5.0, but could be relevant for other versions as well. |
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1787 These versions of ncurses come with a `linux' terminfo entry, where |
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1788 the "cvvis" capability (termcap "vs") is defined as "\E[?25h\E[?8c" |
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1789 (show cursor, change size). This escape sequence switches on a |
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1790 blinking hardware text-mode cursor whose size is a full character |
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1791 cell. This blinking cannot be stopped, since a hardware cursor |
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1792 always blinks. |
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1794 A work-around is to redefine the "cvvis" capability so that it |
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1795 enables a *software* cursor. The software cursor works by inverting |
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1796 the colors of the character at point, so what you see is a block |
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1797 cursor that doesn't blink. For this to work, you need to redefine |
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1798 the "cnorm" capability as well, so that it operates on the software |
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1799 cursor instead of the hardware cursor. |
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1801 To this end, run "infocmp linux > linux-term", edit the file |
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1802 `linux-term' to make both the "cnorm" and "cvvis" capabilities send |
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1803 the sequence "\E[?25h\E[?17;0;64c", and then run "tic linux-term" to |
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1804 produce a modified terminfo entry. |
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1806 Alternatively, if you want a blinking underscore as your Emacs cursor, |
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1807 change the "cvvis" capability to send the "\E[?25h\E[?0c" command. |
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1809 *** GNU/Linux: Error messages `internal facep []' happen on GNU/Linux systems. |
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1811 There is a report that replacing libc.so.5.0.9 with libc.so.5.2.16 |
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1812 caused this to start happening. People are not sure why, but the |
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1813 problem seems unlikely to be in Emacs itself. Some suspect that it |
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1814 is actually Xlib which won't work with libc.so.5.2.16. |
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1816 Using the old library version is a workaround. |
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1820 *** Mac OS X (Carbon): Environment Variables from dotfiles are ignored. |
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1822 When starting Emacs from the Dock or the Finder on Mac OS X, the |
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1823 environment variables that are set up in dotfiles, such as .cshrc or |
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1824 .profile, are ignored. This is because the Finder and Dock are not |
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1825 started from a shell, but instead from the Window Manager itself. |
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1827 The workaround for this is to create a .MacOSX/environment.plist file to |
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1828 setup these environment variables. These environment variables will |
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1829 apply to all processes regardless of where they are started. |
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1830 For me information, see http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html. |
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1832 *** Mac OS X (Carbon): Process output truncated when using ptys. |
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1834 There appears to be a problem with the implementation of pty's on the |
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1835 Mac OS X that causes process output to be truncated. To avoid this, |
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1836 leave process-connection-type set to its default value of nil. |
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1838 *** Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Carbon): QuickTime 7.0.4 updater breaks build. |
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1840 On the above environment, build fails at the link stage with the |
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1841 message like "Undefined symbols: _HICopyAccessibilityActionDescription |
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1842 referenced from QuickTime expected to be defined in Carbon". A |
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1843 workaround is to use QuickTime 7.0.1 reinstaller. |
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1847 *** FreeBSD 2.1.5: useless symbolic links remain in /tmp or other |
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1848 directories that have the +t bit. |
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1850 This is because of a kernel bug in FreeBSD 2.1.5 (fixed in 2.2). |
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1851 Emacs uses symbolic links to implement file locks. In a directory |
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1852 with +t bit, the directory owner becomes the owner of the symbolic |
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1853 link, so that it cannot be removed by anyone else. |
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1855 If you don't like those useless links, you can let Emacs not to using |
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1856 file lock by adding #undef CLASH_DETECTION to config.h. |
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1858 *** FreeBSD: Getting a Meta key on the console. |
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1860 By default, neither Alt nor any other key acts as a Meta key on |
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1861 FreeBSD, but this can be changed using kbdcontrol(1). Dump the |
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1862 current keymap to a file with the command |
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1864 $ kbdcontrol -d >emacs.kbd |
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1866 Edit emacs.kbd, and give the key you want to be the Meta key the |
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1867 definition `meta'. For instance, if your keyboard has a ``Windows'' |
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1868 key with scan code 105, change the line for scan code 105 in emacs.kbd |
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1869 to look like this |
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1873 to make the Windows key the Meta key. Load the new keymap with |
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1875 $ kbdcontrol -l emacs.kbd |
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1877 ** HP-UX |
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1879 *** HP/UX : Shell mode gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous". |
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1881 christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says: |
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1883 The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to |
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1884 execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then |
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1885 tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places, |
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1886 but tty is giving it back 3. |
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1913 shell script to fix the problem; be sure that it is run after VUE |
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1933 such as 2.7.0 fix the problem. |
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1935 *** HP/UX: Emacs does not recognize the AltGr key. |
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1937 To fix this, set up a file ~/.dt/sessions/sessionetc with executable |
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1938 rights, containing this text: |
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1941 xmodmap 2> /dev/null - << EOF |
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1946 xmodmap - << EOF |
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1948 keysym Mode_switch = NoSymbol |
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1955 *** HP/UX 11.0: Emacs makes HP/UX 11.0 crash. |
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1957 This is a bug in HPUX; HPUX patch PHKL_16260 is said to fix it. |
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1963 People often install the pty devices on AIX incorrectly. |
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1964 Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly. |
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1966 *** AIXterm: Your Delete key sends a Backspace to the terminal. |
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1968 The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines: |
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1971 aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^? |
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1976 are compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5'. If |
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1977 so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure |
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1978 Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'. |
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1983 the default `cc'. /bin/c89 treats certain warnings, such as benign |
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1984 redefinitions of macros, as errors, and fails the build. A solution |
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1988 with an error message like No terminfo entry for "unknown". |
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1991 `unknown' is one of them. Install the "Special Generic Terminal |
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1992 Definitions" to make them defined. |
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1999 *** On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console. |
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2001 This is a Solaris feature (at least on Intel x86 cpus). Type C-r |
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2002 C-r C-t, to toggle whether C-x gets through to Emacs. |
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2006 On a Sun, running Emacs on one machine with the X server on another |
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2008 is because the unshared libraries fail to use YP for host name lookup. |
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2009 As a result, the host name you specify may not be recognized. |
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2011 *** Solaris 2,6: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame. |
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2013 We suspect that this is a bug in the X libraries provided by |
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2014 Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and |
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2015 makes the problem stop: |
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2017 105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02 |
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2018 105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03 |
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2019 106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01 |
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2020 105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01 |
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2022 Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06) |
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2023 suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches: |
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2025 106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch |
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2026 106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes |
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2027 105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch |
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2029 *** Solaris 7 or 8: Emacs reports a BadAtom error (from X) |
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2031 This happens when Emacs was built on some other version of Solaris. |
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2032 Rebuild it on Solaris 8. |
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2034 *** When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down' |
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2035 commands do not move the arrow in Emacs. |
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2036 |
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2037 You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit': |
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2038 |
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2039 dbxenv output_short_file_name off |
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2041 *** On Solaris, CTRL-t is ignored by Emacs when you use |
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2042 the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales). |
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2044 You can fix this by editing the file: |
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2045 |
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2046 /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose |
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2047 |
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2048 Near the bottom there is a line that reads: |
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2049 |
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2050 Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters |
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2051 |
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2052 that should read: |
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2054 Ctrl<T> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters |
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2055 |
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2056 Note the lower case <t>. Changing this line should make C-t work. |
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2058 ** Irix |
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2060 *** Irix 6.5: Emacs crashes on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC. |
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2062 This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95. |
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2064 *** Irix: Trouble using ptys, or running out of ptys. |
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2066 The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to |
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2067 be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able |
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2068 to allocate ptys reliably. |
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2070 * Runtime problems specific to MS-Windows |
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2072 ** Windows 95 and networking. |
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2074 To support server sockets, Emacs 22.1 loads ws2_32.dll. If this file |
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2075 is missing, all Emacs networking features are disabled. |
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2077 Old versions of Windows 95 may not have the required DLL. To use |
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2078 Emacs' networking features on Windows 95, you must install the |
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2079 "Windows Socket 2" update available from MicroSoft's support Web. |
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2081 ** Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for MS-Windows. |
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2083 A certain X server for Windows had a bug which caused this. |
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2084 Supposedly the newer 32-bit version of this server doesn't have the |
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2085 problem. |
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2087 ** Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 22.1 |
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2089 Using create-fontset-from-ascii-font or the --font startup parameter |
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2090 with a Chinese, Japanese or Korean font leads to display problems. |
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2091 Use a Latin-only font as your default font. If you want control over |
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2092 which font is used to display Chinese, Japanese or Korean character, |
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2093 use create-fontset-from-fontset-spec to define a fontset. |
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2095 Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu |
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2096 is displayed. This also means help text for pop-up menus is not |
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2097 displayed at all. This is because message handling under Windows is |
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2098 synchronous, so we cannot handle repaint (or any other) messages while |
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2099 waiting for a system function to return the result of the dialog or |
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2100 pop-up menu interaction. |
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2102 Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text |
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2103 for menus. Help text is only available in later versions of Windows. |
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2105 There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the |
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2106 mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first |
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2107 frame. A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame |
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2108 after moving back into it. |
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2110 Some minor flickering still persists during mouse-tracking, although |
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2111 not as severely as in 21.1. |
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2113 An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows |
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2114 Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed. |
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2116 Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs. Some |
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2117 of these input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded |
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2120 work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after |
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2121 you activate the Windows input method. For example, if you activate |
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2122 the Hebrew input method, type "C-x RET k iso-8859-8 RET". (Emacs |
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2123 ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the |
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2124 appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that |
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2125 yet.) |
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2127 To bind keys that produce non-ASCII characters with modifiers, you |
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2128 must specify raw byte codes. For instance, if you want to bind |
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2129 META-a-grave to a command, you need to specify this in your `~/.emacs': |
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2130 |
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2131 (global-set-key [?\M-\340] ...) |
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2132 |
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2133 The above example is for the Latin-1 environment where the byte code |
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2134 of the encoded a-grave is 340 octal. For other environments, use the |
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2135 encoding appropriate to that environment. |
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2137 The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated |
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2138 month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions |
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2139 of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system |
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2140 library function. |
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2142 ** Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on MS-Windows. |
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2144 This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If |
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2145 you proceed to type another non-modifier key before you let go of Alt |
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2146 and Shift, the Alt and Shift act as modifiers in the usual way. A |
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2147 more permanent work around is to change it to another key combination, |
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2148 or disable it in the keyboard control panel. |
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2150 ** Cygwin build of Emacs hangs after rebasing Cygwin DLLs |
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2151 |
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2152 Usually, on Cygwin, one needs to rebase the DLLs if an application |
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2153 aborts with a message like this: |
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2155 C:\cygwin\bin\python.exe: *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll to |
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2156 same address as parent(0xDF0000) != 0xE00000 |
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2158 However, since Cygwin DLL 1.5.17 was released, after such rebasing, |
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2159 Emacs hangs. |
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2160 |
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2161 This was reported to happen for Emacs 21.2 and also for the pretest of |
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2162 Emacs 22.1 on Cygwin. |
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2164 To work around this, build Emacs like this: |
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2165 |
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2166 LDFLAGS='-Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base' ./configure |
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2167 make LD='$(CC)' |
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2168 make LD='$(CC)' install |
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2170 This produces an Emacs binary that is independent of rebasing. |
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2172 Note that you _must_ use LD='$(CC)' in the last two commands above, to |
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2173 prevent GCC from passing the "--image-base 0x20000000" option to the |
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2174 linker, which is what it does by default. That option produces an |
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2175 Emacs binary with the base address 0x20000000, which will cause Emacs |
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2176 to hang after Cygwin DLLs are rebased. |
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2178 ** Interrupting Cygwin port of Bash from Emacs doesn't work. |
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2180 Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the |
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2181 MS-Windows version of Emacs. This is due to some change in the Bash |
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2182 port or in the Cygwin library which apparently make Bash ignore the |
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2183 keyboard interrupt event sent by Emacs to Bash. (Older Cygwin ports |
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2184 of Bash, up to b20.1, did receive SIGINT from Emacs.) |
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2186 ** Accessing remote files with ange-ftp hangs the MS-Windows version of Emacs. |
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2188 If the FTP client is the Cygwin port of GNU `ftp', this appears to be |
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2189 due to some bug in the Cygwin DLL or some incompatibility between it |
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2190 and the implementation of asynchronous subprocesses in the Windows |
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2191 port of Emacs. Specifically, some parts of the FTP server responses |
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2192 are not flushed out, apparently due to buffering issues, which |
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2193 confuses ange-ftp. |
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2195 The solution is to downgrade to an older version of the Cygwin DLL |
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2196 (version 1.3.2 was reported to solve the problem), or use the stock |
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2197 Windows FTP client, usually found in the `C:\WINDOWS' or 'C:\WINNT' |
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2198 directory. To force ange-ftp use the stock Windows client, set the |
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2199 variable `ange-ftp-ftp-program-name' to the absolute file name of the |
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2200 client's executable. For example: |
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2202 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-name "c:/windows/ftp.exe") |
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2204 If you want to stick with the Cygwin FTP client, you can work around |
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2205 this problem by putting this in your `.emacs' file: |
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2207 (setq ange-ftp-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v" "--prompt" "") |
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2209 ** lpr commands don't work on MS-Windows with some cheap printers. |
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2211 This problem may also strike other platforms, but the solution is |
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2212 likely to be a global one, and not Emacs specific. |
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2214 Many cheap inkjet, and even some cheap laser printers, do not |
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2215 print plain text anymore, they will only print through graphical |
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2216 printer drivers. A workaround on MS-Windows is to use Windows' basic |
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2217 built in editor to print (this is possibly the only useful purpose it |
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2218 has): |
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2220 (setq printer-name "") ;; notepad takes the default |
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2221 (setq lpr-command "notepad") ;; notepad |
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2222 (setq lpr-switches nil) ;; not needed |
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2223 (setq lpr-printer-switch "/P") ;; run notepad as batch printer |
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2225 ** Antivirus software interacts badly with the MS-Windows version of Emacs. |
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2227 The usual manifestation of these problems is that subprocesses don't |
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2228 work or even wedge the entire system. In particular, "M-x shell RET" |
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2229 was reported to fail to work. But other commands also sometimes don't |
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2232 The solution is to switch the antivirus software to a less aggressive |
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2233 mode (e.g., disable the ``auto-protect'' feature), or even uninstall |
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2234 or disable it entirely. |
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2238 This is usually a problem with the mouse driver. Because most Windows |
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2239 programs do not do anything useful with the middle mouse button, many |
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2240 mouse drivers allow you to define the wheel press to do something |
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2241 different. Some drivers do not even have the option to generate a |
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2242 middle button press. In such cases, setting the wheel press to |
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2243 "scroll" sometimes works if you press the button twice. Trying a |
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2244 generic mouse driver might help. |
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2246 ** Scrolling the mouse wheel on MS-Windows always scrolls the top window. |
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2248 This is another common problem with mouse drivers. Instead of |
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2249 generating scroll events, some mouse drivers try to fake scroll bar |
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2250 movement. But they are not intelligent enough to handle multiple |
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2251 scroll bars within a frame. Trying a generic mouse driver might help. |
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2253 ** Mail sent through Microsoft Exchange in some encodings appears to be |
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2254 mangled and is not seen correctly in Rmail or Gnus. We don't know |
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2255 exactly what happens, but it isn't an Emacs problem in cases we've |
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2256 seen. |
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2258 ** On MS-Windows, you cannot use the right-hand ALT key and the left-hand |
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2259 CTRL key together to type a Control-Meta character. |
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2261 This is a consequence of a misfeature beyond Emacs's control. |
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2263 Under Windows, the AltGr key on international keyboards generates key |
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2264 events with the modifiers Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl. Since Emacs cannot |
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2265 distinguish AltGr from an explicit Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl |
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2266 combination, whenever it sees Right-Alt and Left-Ctrl it assumes that |
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2267 AltGr has been pressed. The variable `w32-recognize-altgr' can be set |
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2268 to nil to tell Emacs that AltGr is really Ctrl and Alt. |
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2270 ** Under some X-servers running on MS-Windows, Emacs' display is incorrect. |
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2272 The symptoms are that Emacs does not completely erase blank areas of the |
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2273 screen during scrolling or some other screen operations (e.g., selective |
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2274 display or when killing a region). M-x recenter will cause the screen |
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2275 to be completely redisplayed and the "extra" characters will disappear. |
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2277 This is known to occur under Exceed 6, and possibly earlier versions |
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2278 as well; it is reportedly solved in version 6.2.0.16 and later. The |
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2279 problem lies in the X-server settings. |
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2281 There are reports that you can solve the problem with Exceed by |
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2282 running `Xconfig' from within NT, choosing "X selection", then |
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2283 un-checking the boxes "auto-copy X selection" and "auto-paste to X |
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2284 selection". |
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2286 Of this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then |
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2287 please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix. |
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2288 If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it |
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2289 here. |
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2291 * Build-time problems |
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2293 ** Configuration |
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2295 *** The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library. |
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2297 There are reports that this happens on some systems because the linker |
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2298 by default only looks for shared libraries, but jpeg distribution by |
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2299 default only installs a nonshared version of the library, `libjpeg.a'. |
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2301 If this is the problem, you can configure the jpeg library with the |
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2302 `--enable-shared' option and then rebuild libjpeg. This produces a |
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2303 shared version of libjpeg, which you need to install. Finally, rerun |
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2304 the Emacs configure script, which should now find the jpeg library. |
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2305 Alternatively, modify the generated src/Makefile to link the .a file |
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2306 explicitly, and edit src/config.h to define HAVE_JPEG. |
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2310 *** Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''. |
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2312 This was reported to happen when building Emacs on a GNU/Linux system |
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2313 (RedHat Linux 6.2) using a build directory automounted from Solaris |
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2314 (SunOS 5.6) file server, but it might not be limited to that |
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2315 configuration alone. Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the |
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2316 files' data to disk quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is |
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2317 left ``busy'' for several seconds after Emacs has finished dumping |
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2318 itself. This causes the subsequent commands which invoke the dumped |
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2319 Emacs executable to fail with the above message. |
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2321 In some of these cases, a time skew between the NFS server and the |
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2322 machine where Emacs is built is detected and reported by GNU Make |
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2323 (it says that some of the files have modification time in the future). |
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2324 This might be a symptom of NFS-related problems. |
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2326 If the NFS server runs on Solaris, apply the Solaris patch 105379-05 |
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2328 you have a different version of the OS or the NFS server, you can |
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2329 force the NFS server to use 1KB blocks, which was reported to fix the |
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2330 problem albeit at a price of slowing down file I/O. You can force 1KB |
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2331 blocks by specifying the "-o rsize=1024,wsize=1024" options to the |
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2332 `mount' command, or by adding ",rsize=1024,wsize=1024" to the mount |
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2333 options in the appropriate system configuration file, such as |
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2334 `/etc/auto.home'. |
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2336 Alternatively, when Make fails due to this problem, you could wait for |
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2337 a few seconds and then invoke Make again. In one particular case, |
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2338 waiting for 10 or more seconds between the two Make invocations seemed |
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2339 to work around the problem. |
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2341 Similar problems can happen if your machine NFS-mounts a directory |
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2342 onto itself. Suppose the Emacs sources live in `/usr/local/src' and |
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2343 you are working on the host called `marvin'. Then an entry in the |
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2344 `/etc/fstab' file like the following is asking for trouble: |
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2346 marvin:/usr/local/src /usr/local/src ...options.omitted... |
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2348 The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'. |
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2350 *** Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory. |
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2352 This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one |
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2353 of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released |
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2354 version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those |
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2355 dates; similar problems were reported with some snapshots of GCC 3.1 |
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2356 around Sep 30 2001. The preprocessor in those versions is |
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2357 incompatible with a traditional Unix cpp (e.g., it expands ".." into |
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2358 ". .", which breaks relative file names that reference the parent |
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2359 directory; or inserts TAB characters before lines that set Make |
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2360 variables). |
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2361 |
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2362 The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the |
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2363 `-traditional' option. The `configure' script does that automatically |
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2364 when it detects the known problems in your cpp, but you might hit some |
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2365 unknown ones. To force the `configure' script to use `-traditional', |
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2366 run the script like this: |
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2367 |
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2368 CPP='gcc -E -traditional' ./configure ... |
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2371 the script). |
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2373 Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of |
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2374 Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles. |
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2376 *** src/Makefile and lib-src/Makefile are truncated--most of the file missing. |
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2377 *** Compiling wakeup, in lib-src, says it can't make wakeup.c. |
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2379 This can happen if configure uses GNU sed version 2.03. That version |
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2381 problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun Emacs's |
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2382 configure script. |
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2384 *** Compiling lib-src says there is no rule to make test-distrib.c. |
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2386 This results from a bug in a VERY old version of GNU Sed. To solve |
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2387 the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun |
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2388 Emacs's configure script. |
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2390 *** Building a 32-bit executable on a 64-bit GNU/Linux architecture. |
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2392 First ensure that the necessary 32-bit system libraries and include |
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2393 files are installed. Then use: |
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2395 env CC="gcc -m32" ./configure --build=i386-linux-gnu \ |
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2396 --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib |
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2398 (using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system). |
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2400 *** Building the Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC version |
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2402 Building Emacs 22 with Cygwin builds of GCC 3.4.4-1 and 3.4.4-2 is |
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2403 reported to either fail or cause Emacs to segfault at run time. In |
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2404 addition, the Cygwin GCC 3.4.4-2 has problems with generating debug |
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2405 info. Cygwin users are advised not to use these versions of GCC for |
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2406 compiling Emacs. GCC versions 4.0.3, 4.1.1, and 4.1.2 reportedly |
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2407 build a working Cygwin binary of Emacs, so we recommend these GCC |
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2408 versions. Note that these three versions of GCC, 4.0.3, 4.1.1, and |
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2409 4.1.2, are currently the _only_ versions known to succeed in building |
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2410 Emacs (as of v22.1). |
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2412 *** Building the native MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail. |
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2414 Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin |
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2415 version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings. It appears to be |
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2416 necessary to specify the -mwin32 flag when compiling, and define |
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2417 __MSVCRT__, like so: |
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2419 configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__ |
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2421 *** Building the MS-Windows port fails with a CreateProcess failure. |
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2423 Some versions of mingw32 make on some versions of Windows do not seem |
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2424 to detect the shell correctly. Try "make SHELL=cmd.exe", or if that |
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2425 fails, try running make from Cygwin bash instead. |
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2427 *** Building the MS-Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory. |
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2429 The error message might be something like this: |
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2431 Converting d:/emacs-21.3/leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit to quail-package... |
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2432 Invalid ENCODE: value in TIT dictionary |
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2433 NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code |
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2434 '0xffffffff' |
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2435 Stop. |
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2437 This can happen if the Leim distribution is unpacked with a program |
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2438 which converts the `*.tit' files to DOS-style CR-LF text format. The |
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2439 `*.tit' files in the leim/CXTERM-DIC directory require Unix-style line |
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2440 endings to compile properly, because Emacs reads them without any code |
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2441 or EOL conversions. |
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2443 The solution is to make sure the program used to unpack Leim does not |
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2444 change the files' line endings behind your back. The GNU FTP site has |
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2445 in the `/gnu/emacs/windows' directory a program called `djtarnt.exe' |
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2446 which can be used to unpack `.tar.gz' and `.zip' archives without |
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2447 mangling them. |
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2449 *** Building `ctags' for MS-Windows with the MinGW port of GCC fails. |
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2451 This might happen due to a bug in the MinGW header assert.h, which |
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2452 defines the `assert' macro with a trailing semi-colon. The following |
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2453 patch to assert.h should solve this: |
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2455 *** include/assert.h.orig Sun Nov 7 02:41:36 1999 |
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2456 --- include/assert.h Mon Jan 29 11:49:10 2001 |
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2457 *************** |
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2458 *** 41,47 **** |
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2459 /* |
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2460 * If not debugging, assert does nothing. |
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2461 */ |
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2462 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0); |
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2464 #else /* debugging enabled */ |
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2465 |
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2466 --- 41,47 ---- |
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2467 /* |
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2468 * If not debugging, assert does nothing. |
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2469 */ |
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2470 ! #define assert(x) ((void)0) |
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2471 |
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2472 #else /* debugging enabled */ |
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2473 |
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2475 *** Building the MS-Windows port with Visual Studio 2005 fails. |
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2476 |
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2477 Microsoft no longer ships the single threaded version of the C library |
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2478 with their compiler, and the multithreaded static library is missing |
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2479 some functions that Microsoft have deemed non-threadsafe. The |
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2480 dynamically linked C library has all the functions, but there is a |
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2481 conflict between the versions of malloc in the DLL and in Emacs, which |
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2482 is not resolvable due to the way Windows does dynamic linking. |
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2484 We recommend the use of the MingW port of GCC for compiling Emacs, as |
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2485 not only does it not suffer these problems, but it is also Free |
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2486 software like Emacs. |
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2488 ** Linking |
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2490 *** Building Emacs with a system compiler fails to link because of an |
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2491 undefined symbol such as __eprintf which does not appear in Emacs. |
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2493 This can happen if some of the libraries linked into Emacs were built |
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2494 with GCC, but Emacs itself is being linked with a compiler other than |
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2495 GCC. Object files compiled with GCC might need some helper functions |
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2496 from libgcc.a, the library which comes with GCC, but the system |
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2497 compiler does not instruct the linker to search libgcc.a during the |
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2498 link stage. |
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2499 |
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2500 A solution is to link with GCC, like this: |
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2502 make CC=gcc |
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2504 Since the .o object files already exist, this will not recompile Emacs |
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2505 with GCC, but just restart by trying again to link temacs. |
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2507 *** AIX 1.3 ptf 0013: Link failure. |
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2509 There is a real duplicate definition of the function `_slibc_free' in |
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2510 the library /lib/libc_s.a (just do nm on it to verify). The |
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2511 workaround/fix is: |
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2512 |
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2513 cd /lib |
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2514 ar xv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o |
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2515 ar dv libc_s.a NLtmtime.o |
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2516 |
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2517 *** AIX 4.1.2: Linker error messages such as |
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2518 ld: 0711-212 SEVERE ERROR: Symbol .__quous, found in the global symbol table |
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2519 of archive /usr/lib/libIM.a, was not defined in archive member shr.o. |
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2521 This is a problem in libIM.a. You can work around it by executing |
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2522 these shell commands in the src subdirectory of the directory where |
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2523 you build Emacs: |
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2524 |
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2525 cp /usr/lib/libIM.a . |
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2526 chmod 664 libIM.a |
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2527 ranlib libIM.a |
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2528 |
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2529 Then change -lIM to ./libIM.a in the command to link temacs (in |
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2530 Makefile). |
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2531 |
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2532 *** Sun with acc: Link failure when using acc on a Sun. |
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2534 To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as |
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2536 /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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2538 and you need to add -lansi just before -lc. |
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2540 The precise file names depend on the compiler version, so we |
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2541 cannot easily arrange to supply them. |
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2543 *** Linking says that the functions insque and remque are undefined. |
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2545 Change oldXMenu/Makefile by adding insque.o to the variable OBJS. |
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2547 *** `tparam' reported as a multiply-defined symbol when linking with ncurses. |
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2549 This problem results from an incompatible change in ncurses, in |
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2550 version 1.9.9e approximately. This version is unable to provide a |
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2551 definition of tparm without also defining tparam. This is also |
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2552 incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support |
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2553 does not work with this version of ncurses. |
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2555 The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2. |
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2557 ** Dumping |
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2559 *** Linux: Segfault during `make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel. |
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2561 With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Redhat Fedora Core |
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2562 1 and newer), the new "Exec-shield" functionality is enabled by default, which |
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2564 to handle this at build time, but if the workaround used fails, these |
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2565 instructions can be useful. |
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2566 The work-around explained here is not enough on Fedora Core 4 (and possible |
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2567 newer). Read the next item. |
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2569 Configure can overcome the problem of exec-shield if the architecture is |
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2570 x86 and the program setarch is present. On other architectures no |
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2571 workaround is known. |
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2573 You can check the Exec-shield state like this: |
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2575 cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield |
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2577 It returns non-zero when Exec-shield is enabled, 0 otherwise. Please |
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2578 read your system documentation for more details on Exec-shield and |
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2579 associated commands. Exec-shield can be turned off with this command: |
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2580 |
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2581 echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield |
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2583 When Exec-shield is enabled, building Emacs will segfault during the |
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2584 execution of this command: |
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2585 |
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2586 ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] |
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2588 To work around this problem, it is necessary to temporarily disable |
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2589 Exec-shield while building Emacs, or, on x86, by using the `setarch' |
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2590 command when running temacs like this: |
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2591 |
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2592 setarch i386 ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] |
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2595 *** Fedora Core 4 GNU/Linux: Segfault during dumping. |
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2596 |
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2597 In addition to exec-shield explained above "Linux: Segfault during |
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2598 `make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel" |
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2599 item, Linux kernel shipped with Fedora Core 4 randomizes the virtual |
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2600 address space of a process. As the result dumping may fail even if |
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2601 you turn off exec-shield. In this case, use the -R option to the setarch |
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2602 command: |
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2604 setarch i386 -R ./temacs --batch --load loadup [dump|bootstrap] |
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2606 or |
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2608 setarch i386 -R make bootstrap |
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2610 *** Fatal signal in the command temacs -l loadup inc dump. |
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2612 This command is the final stage of building Emacs. It is run by the |
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2613 Makefile in the src subdirectory, or by build.com on VMS. |
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2615 It has been known to get fatal errors due to insufficient swapping |
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2616 space available on the machine. |
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2618 On 68000s, it has also happened because of bugs in the |
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2619 subroutine `alloca'. Verify that `alloca' works right, even |
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2620 for large blocks (many pages). |
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2622 *** test-distrib says that the distribution has been clobbered. |
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2623 *** or, temacs prints "Command key out of range 0-127". |
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2624 *** or, temacs runs and dumps emacs, but emacs totally fails to work. |
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2625 *** or, temacs gets errors dumping emacs. |
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2627 This can be because the .elc files have been garbled. Do not be |
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2628 fooled by the fact that most of a .elc file is text: these are |
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2629 binary files and can contain all 256 byte values. |
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2630 |
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2631 In particular `shar' cannot be used for transmitting GNU Emacs. |
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2632 It typically truncates "lines". What appear to be "lines" in |
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2633 a binary file can of course be of any length. Even once `shar' |
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2634 itself is made to work correctly, `sh' discards null characters |
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2635 when unpacking the shell archive. |
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2637 I have also seen character \177 changed into \377. I do not know |
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2638 what transfer means caused this problem. Various network |
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2639 file transfer programs are suspected of clobbering the high bit. |
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2640 |
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2641 If you have a copy of Emacs that has been damaged in its |
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2642 nonprinting characters, you can fix them: |
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2644 1) Record the names of all the .elc files. |
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2645 2) Delete all the .elc files. |
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2646 3) Recompile alloc.c with a value of PURESIZE twice as large. |
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2647 (See puresize.h.) You might as well save the old alloc.o. |
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2648 4) Remake emacs. It should work now. |
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2649 5) Running emacs, do Meta-x byte-compile-file repeatedly |
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2650 to recreate all the .elc files that used to exist. |
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2651 You may need to increase the value of the variable |
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2652 max-lisp-eval-depth to succeed in running the compiler interpreted |
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2653 on certain .el files. 400 was sufficient as of last report. |
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2654 6) Reinstall the old alloc.o (undoing changes to alloc.c if any) |
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2655 and remake temacs. |
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2656 7) Remake emacs. It should work now, with valid .elc files. |
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2657 |
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2658 *** temacs prints "Pure Lisp storage exhausted". |
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2659 |
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2660 This means that the Lisp code loaded from the .elc and .el |
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2661 files during temacs -l loadup inc dump took up more |
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2662 space than was allocated. |
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2663 |
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2664 This could be caused by |
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2665 1) adding code to the preloaded Lisp files |
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2666 2) adding more preloaded files in loadup.el |
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2667 3) having a site-init.el or site-load.el which loads files. |
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2668 Note that ANY site-init.el or site-load.el is nonstandard; |
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2669 if you have received Emacs from some other site |
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2670 and it contains a site-init.el or site-load.el file, consider |
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2671 deleting that file. |
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2672 4) getting the wrong .el or .elc files |
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2673 (not from the directory you expected). |
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2674 5) deleting some .elc files that are supposed to exist. |
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2675 This would cause the source files (.el files) to be |
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2676 loaded instead. They take up more room, so you lose. |
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2677 6) a bug in the Emacs distribution which underestimates |
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2678 the space required. |
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2680 If the need for more space is legitimate, change the definition |
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2681 of PURESIZE in puresize.h. |
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2682 |
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2683 But in some of the cases listed above, this problem is a consequence |
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2684 of something else that is wrong. Be sure to check and fix the real |
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2685 problem. |
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2686 |
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2687 *** Linux: Emacs crashes when dumping itself on Mac PPC running Yellow Dog GNU/Linux. |
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2688 |
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2689 The crashes happen inside the function Fmake_symbol; here's a typical |
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2690 C backtrace printed by GDB: |
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2691 |
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2692 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol () |
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2693 (gdb) where |
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2694 #0 0x190c0c0 in Fmake_symbol () |
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2695 #1 0x1942ca4 in init_obarray () |
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2696 #2 0x18b3500 in main () |
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2697 #3 0x114371c in __libc_start_main (argc=5, argv=0x7ffff5b4, envp=0x7ffff5cc, |
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2698 |
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2699 This could happen because GCC version 2.95 and later changed the base |
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2700 of the load address to 0x10000000. Emacs needs to be told about this, |
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2701 but we currently cannot do that automatically, because that breaks |
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2702 other versions of GNU/Linux on the MacPPC. Until we find a way to |
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2703 distinguish between the Yellow Dog and the other varieties of |
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2704 GNU/Linux systems on the PPC, you will have to manually uncomment the |
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2705 following section near the end of the file src/m/macppc.h in the Emacs |
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2706 distribution: |
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2707 |
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2708 #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux except for Yellowdog, |
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2709 even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we |
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2710 know what's really going on here. */ |
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2711 /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to |
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2712 0x10000000. */ |
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2713 #if defined __linux__ |
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2714 #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95) |
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2715 #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000 |
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2716 #endif |
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2717 #endif |
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2718 #endif /* 0 */ |
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2719 |
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2720 Remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives which surround this, save |
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2721 the file, and then reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. The dumping process |
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2722 should now succeed. |
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2723 |
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2724 ** Installation |
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2725 |
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2726 *** Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'. |
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2727 |
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2728 You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package |
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2729 supplies the `install-info' command. |
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2730 |
76755 | 2731 *** Installing to a directory with spaces in the name fails. |
2732 | |
2733 For example, if you call configure with a directory-related option | |
2734 with spaces in the value, eg --enable-locallisppath='/path/with\ spaces'. | |
2735 Using directory paths with spaces is not supported at this time: you | |
2736 must re-configure without using spaces. | |
2737 | |
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2738 ** First execution |
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2739 |
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2740 *** Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run. |
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2741 |
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2742 This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted |
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2743 via NFS, for some combinations of NFS client and NFS server. |
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2744 Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of |
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2745 binary null characters, and the `file' utility says: |
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2746 |
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2747 emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators |
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2748 |
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2749 We don't know what exactly causes this failure. A work-around is to |
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2750 build Emacs in a directory on a local disk. |
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2751 |
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2752 *** The dumped Emacs crashes when run, trying to write pure data. |
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2753 |
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2754 Two causes have been seen for such problems. |
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2755 |
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2756 1) On a system where getpagesize is not a system call, it is defined |
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2757 as a macro. If the definition (in both unexec.c and malloc.c) is wrong, |
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2758 it can cause problems like this. You might be able to find the correct |
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2759 value in the man page for a.out (5). |
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2760 |
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2761 2) Some systems allocate variables declared static among the |
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2762 initialized variables. Emacs makes all initialized variables in most |
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2763 of its files pure after dumping, but the variables declared static and |
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2764 not initialized are not supposed to be pure. On these systems you |
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2765 may need to add "#define static" to the m- or the s- file. |
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2766 |
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2767 * Emacs 19 problems |
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2768 |
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2769 ** Error messages `Wrong number of arguments: #<subr where-is-internal>, 5'. |
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2770 |
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2771 This typically results from having the powerkey library loaded. |
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2772 Powerkey was designed for Emacs 19.22. It is obsolete now because |
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2773 Emacs 19 now has this feature built in; and powerkey also calls |
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2774 where-is-internal in an obsolete way. |
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2775 |
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2776 So the fix is to arrange not to load powerkey. |
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2777 |
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2778 * Runtime problems on legacy systems |
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2779 |
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2780 This section covers bugs reported on very old hardware or software. |
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2781 If you are using hardware and an operating system shipped after 2000, |
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2782 it is unlikely you will see any of these. |
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2783 |
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2784 ** Ancient operating systems |
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2785 |
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2786 AIX 4.2 was end-of-lifed on Dec 31st, 1999. |
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2787 |
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2788 *** AIX: You get this compiler error message: |
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2789 |
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2790 Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h |
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2791 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found. |
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2792 |
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2793 This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d |
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2794 libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install |
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2795 X11Dev... with smit. |
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2796 |
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2797 (This report must be ancient. Bootable tapes are long dead.) |
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2798 |
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2799 *** AIX 3.2.4: Releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down. |
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2800 |
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2801 Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is |
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2802 ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can |
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2803 lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are |
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2804 treated as control characters. |
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2806 You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and |
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2807 releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys. |
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2809 *** AIX 3.2.5: You get this message when running Emacs: |
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2811 Could not load program emacs |
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2812 Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined |
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2813 Error was: Exec format error |
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2814 |
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2815 or this one: |
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2816 |
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2817 Could not load program .emacs |
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2818 Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined |
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2819 Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined |
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2820 Error was: Exec format error |
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2821 |
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2822 These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was |
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2823 compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile. |
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2824 |
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2825 *** AIX 4.2: Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup. |
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2826 |
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2827 If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c |
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2828 without optimization; that should avoid the problem. |
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2830 *** ISC Unix |
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2831 |
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2832 **** ISC: display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems. |
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2834 Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other |
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2835 versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT |
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2836 cells. Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted. |
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2837 This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other |
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2838 processes die, in particular pcnfsd. |
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2839 |
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2840 Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have |
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2841 the same problem. Display-time seems to be far the worst. |
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2843 The only known fix: Don't run display-time. |
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2844 |
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2845 *** SunOS |
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2846 |
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2847 SunOS 4.1.4 stopped shipping on Sep 30 1998. |
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2848 |
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2849 **** SunOS: You get linker errors |
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2850 ld: Undefined symbol |
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2851 _get_wmShellWidgetClass |
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2852 _get_applicationShellWidgetClass |
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2854 **** Sun 4.0.x: M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1". |
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2855 |
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2856 This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos |
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2857 version 4.0.x. The only fix was to reboot the machine. |
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2858 |
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2859 **** SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3: Mail is lost when sent to local aliases. |
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2861 Many emacs mail user agents (VM and rmail, for instance) use the |
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2862 sendmail.el library. This library can arrange for mail to be |
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2863 delivered by passing messages to the /usr/lib/sendmail (usually) |
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2864 program . In doing so, it passes the '-t' flag to sendmail, which |
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2865 means that the name of the recipient of the message is not on the |
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2866 command line and, therefore, that sendmail must parse the message to |
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2867 obtain the destination address. |
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2868 |
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2869 There is a bug in the SunOS4.1.1 and SunOS4.1.3 versions of sendmail. |
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2870 In short, when given the -t flag, the SunOS sendmail won't recognize |
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2871 non-local (i.e. NIS) aliases. It has been reported that the Solaris |
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2872 2.x versions of sendmail do not have this bug. For those using SunOS |
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2873 4.1, the best fix is to install sendmail V8 or IDA sendmail (which |
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2874 have other advantages over the regular sendmail as well). At the time |
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2875 of this writing, these official versions are available: |
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2876 |
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2877 Sendmail V8 on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu in /ucb/sendmail: |
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2878 sendmail.8.6.9.base.tar.Z (the base system source & documentation) |
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2879 sendmail.8.6.9.cf.tar.Z (configuration files) |
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2880 sendmail.8.6.9.misc.tar.Z (miscellaneous support programs) |
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2881 sendmail.8.6.9.xdoc.tar.Z (extended documentation, with postscript) |
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2883 IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub: |
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2884 sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz |
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2885 |
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2886 **** Sunos 4: You get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version. |
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2888 This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant |
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2889 for acc (the Sunpro compiler). Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and delete |
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2890 /usr/lang/SC2.0.1 or some similar directory. |
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2892 **** SunOS 4.1.3: Emacs unpredictably crashes in _yp_dobind_soft. |
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2894 This happens if you configure Emacs specifying just `sparc-sun-sunos4' |
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2895 on a system that is version 4.1.3. You must specify the precise |
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2896 version number (or let configure figure out the configuration, which |
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2897 it can do perfectly well for SunOS). |
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2899 **** Sunos 4.1.3: Emacs gets hung shortly after startup. |
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2901 We think this is due to a bug in Sunos. The word is that |
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2902 one of these Sunos patches fixes the bug: |
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2904 100075-11 100224-06 100347-03 100482-05 100557-02 100623-03 100804-03 101080-01 |
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2905 100103-12 100249-09 100496-02 100564-07 100630-02 100891-10 101134-01 |
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2906 100170-09 100296-04 100377-09 100507-04 100567-04 100650-02 101070-01 101145-01 |
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2907 100173-10 100305-15 100383-06 100513-04 100570-05 100689-01 101071-03 101200-02 |
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2908 100178-09 100338-05 100421-03 100536-02 100584-05 100784-01 101072-01 101207-01 |
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2910 We don't know which of these patches really matter. If you find out |
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2911 which ones, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
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2913 **** SunOS 4: Emacs processes keep going after you kill the X server |
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2914 (or log out, if you logged in using X). |
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2916 Someone reported that recompiling with GCC 2.7.0 fixed this problem. |
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2918 The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0 |
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2919 or link libXmu statically. |
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2920 |
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2921 **** Sunos 5.3: Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies. |
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2922 |
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2923 A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs |
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2924 exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only |
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2925 applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses |
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2926 communicating through pipes. |
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2928 *** Apollo Domain |
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2929 |
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2930 **** Shell mode ignores interrupts on Apollo Domain. |
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2932 You may find that M-x shell prints the following message: |
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2934 Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell... |
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2936 This can happen if there are not enough ptys on your system. |
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2937 Here is how to make more of them. |
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2939 % cd /dev |
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2940 % ls pty* |
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2941 # shows how many pty's you have. I had 8, named pty0 to pty7) |
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2942 % /etc/crpty 8 |
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2943 # creates eight new pty's |
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2945 *** Irix |
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2946 |
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2947 *** Irix 6.2: No visible display on mips-sgi-irix6.2 when compiling with GCC 2.8.1. |
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2949 This problem went away after installing the latest IRIX patches |
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2950 as of 8 Dec 1998. |
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2952 The same problem has been reported on Irix 6.3. |
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2954 *** Irix 6.3: substituting environment variables in file names |
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2955 in the minibuffer gives peculiar error messages such as |
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2956 |
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2957 Substituting nonexistent environment variable "" |
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2959 This is not an Emacs bug; it is caused by something in SGI patch |
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2960 003082 August 11, 1998. |
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2962 *** OPENSTEP |
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2964 **** OPENSTEP 4.2: Compiling syntax.c with gcc 2.7.2.1 fails. |
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2966 The compiler was reported to crash while compiling syntax.c with the |
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2967 following message: |
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2968 |
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2969 cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11 |
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2971 To work around this, replace the macros UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD, |
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2972 INC_BOTH, and INC_FROM with functions. To this end, first define 3 |
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2973 functions, one each for every macro. Here's an example: |
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2974 |
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2975 static int update_syntax_table_forward(int from) |
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2976 { |
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2977 return(UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD(from)); |
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2978 }/*update_syntax_table_forward*/ |
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2980 Then replace all references to UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD in syntax.c |
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2981 with a call to the function update_syntax_table_forward. |
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2983 *** Solaris 2.x |
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2984 |
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2985 **** Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun. |
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2987 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of |
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2988 editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such |
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2989 as GCC. |
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2991 **** On Solaris, Emacs dumps core if lisp-complete-symbol is called. |
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2993 If you compile Emacs with the -fast or -xO4 option with version 3.0.2 |
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2994 of the Sun C compiler, Emacs dumps core when lisp-complete-symbol is |
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2995 called. The problem does not happen if you compile with GCC. |
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2997 **** On Solaris, Emacs crashes if you use (display-time). |
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2999 This can happen if you configure Emacs without specifying the precise |
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3000 version of Solaris that you are using. |
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3002 **** Solaris 2.3 and 2.4: Unpredictable segmentation faults. |
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3004 A user reported that this happened in 19.29 when it was compiled with |
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3005 the Sun compiler, but not when he recompiled with GCC 2.7.0. |
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3007 We do not know whether something in Emacs is partly to blame for this. |
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3009 **** Solaris 2.4: Emacs dumps core on startup. |
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3011 Bill Sebok says that the cause of this is Solaris 2.4 vendor patch |
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3012 102303-05, which extends the Solaris linker to deal with the Solaris |
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3013 Common Desktop Environment's linking needs. You can fix the problem |
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3014 by removing this patch and installing patch 102049-02 instead. |
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3015 However, that linker version won't work with CDE. |
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3017 Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug. It is reported that if |
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3018 you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed. |
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3019 We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know |
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3020 for certain. |
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3022 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes) |
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3023 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes) |
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3024 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes) |
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3026 (One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together |
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3029 If you can determine which patch does fix the bug, please tell |
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3030 bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. |
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3032 Meanwhile, the GNU linker links Emacs properly on both Solaris 2.4 and |
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3033 Solaris 2.5. |
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3035 **** Solaris 2.4: Dired hangs and C-g does not work. Or Emacs hangs |
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3036 forever waiting for termination of a subprocess that is a zombie. |
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3038 casper@fwi.uva.nl says the problem is in X11R6. Rebuild libX11.so |
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3039 after changing the file xc/config/cf/sunLib.tmpl. Change the lines |
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3041 #if ThreadedX |
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3042 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread |
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3043 #endif |
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3045 to: |
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3047 #if OSMinorVersion < 4 |
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3048 #if ThreadedX |
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3049 #define SharedX11Reqs -lthread |
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3050 #endif |
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3051 #endif |
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3053 Be sure also to edit x/config/cf/sun.cf so that OSMinorVersion is 4 |
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3054 (as it should be for Solaris 2.4). The file has three definitions for |
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3055 OSMinorVersion: the first is for x86, the second for SPARC under |
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3056 Solaris, and the third for SunOS 4. Make sure to update the |
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3057 definition for your type of machine and system. |
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3059 Then do `make Everything' in the top directory of X11R6, to rebuild |
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3060 the makefiles and rebuild X. The X built this way work only on |
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3061 Solaris 2.4, not on 2.3. |
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3063 For multithreaded X to work it is necessary to install patch |
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3064 101925-02 to fix problems in header files [2.4]. You need |
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3065 to reinstall gcc or re-run just-fixinc after installing that |
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3066 patch. |
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3068 However, Frank Rust <frust@iti.cs.tu-bs.de> used a simpler solution: |
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3069 he changed |
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3070 #define ThreadedX YES |
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3071 to |
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3072 #define ThreadedX NO |
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3073 in sun.cf and did `make World' to rebuild X11R6. Removing all |
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3074 `-DXTHREAD*' flags and `-lthread' entries from lib/X11/Makefile and |
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3075 typing 'make install' in that directory also seemed to work. |
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3077 **** Solaris 2.x: GCC complains "64 bit integer types not supported". |
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3079 This suggests that GCC is not installed correctly. Most likely you |
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3080 are using GCC 2.7.2.3 (or earlier) on Solaris 2.6 (or later); this |
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3081 does not work without patching. To run GCC 2.7.2.3 on Solaris 2.6 or |
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3082 later, you must patch fixinc.svr4 and reinstall GCC from scratch as |
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3083 described in the Solaris FAQ |
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3084 <http://www.wins.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html>. A better fix is |
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3085 to upgrade to GCC 2.8.1 or later. |
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3086 |
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3087 **** Solaris 2.7: Building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 |
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3088 C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to |
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3089 compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C |
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3090 release was reported to work without problems. It worked OK on |
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3091 another system with Solaris 8 using apparently the same 5.0 compiler |
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3092 and the default CFLAGS. |
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3093 |
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3094 **** Solaris 2.x: Emacs dumps core when built with Motif. |
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3096 The Solaris Motif libraries are buggy, at least up through Solaris 2.5.1. |
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3097 Install the current Motif runtime library patch appropriate for your host. |
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3098 (Make sure the patch is current; some older patch versions still have the bug.) |
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3099 You should install the other patches recommended by Sun for your host, too. |
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3100 You can obtain Sun patches from ftp://sunsolve.sun.com/pub/patches/; |
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3101 look for files with names ending in `.PatchReport' to see which patches |
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3102 are currently recommended for your host. |
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3104 On Solaris 2.6, Emacs is said to work with Motif when Solaris patch |
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3105 105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed. |
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3106 105284-18 might fix it again. |
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3108 **** Solaris 2.6 and 7: the Compose key does not work. |
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3110 This is a bug in Motif in Solaris. Supposedly it has been fixed for |
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3111 the next major release of Solaris. However, if someone with Sun |
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3112 support complains to Sun about the bug, they may release a patch. |
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3113 If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711. |
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3114 |
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3115 One workaround is to use a locale that allows non-ASCII characters. |
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3116 For example, before invoking emacs, set the LC_ALL environment |
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3117 variable to "en_US" (American English). The directory /usr/lib/locale |
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3118 lists the supported locales; any locale other than "C" or "POSIX" |
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3119 should do. |
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3120 |
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3121 pen@lysator.liu.se says (Feb 1998) that the Compose key does work |
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3122 if you link with the MIT X11 libraries instead of the Solaris X11 |
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3123 libraries. |
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3125 *** HP/UX versions before 11.0 |
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3126 |
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3127 HP/UX 9 was end-of-lifed in December 1998. |
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3128 HP/UX 10 was end-of-lifed in May 1999. |
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3129 |
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3130 **** HP/UX 9: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV after you delete a frame. |
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3132 We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With |
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3133 the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem |
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3134 does not happen. |
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3135 |
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3136 *** HP/UX 10: Large file support is disabled. |
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3137 |
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3138 See the comments in src/s/hpux10.h. |
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3139 |
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3140 *** HP/UX: Emacs is slow using X11R5. |
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3141 |
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3142 This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it |
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3143 doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version |
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3144 because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a, |
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3145 libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with |
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3146 those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to |
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3147 install them and rebuild Emacs. |
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3148 |
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3149 *** Ultrix and Digital Unix |
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3150 |
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3151 **** Ultrix 4.2: `make install' fails on install-doc with `Error 141'. |
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3152 |
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3153 This happens on Ultrix 4.2 due to failure of a pipeline of tar |
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3154 commands. We don't know why they fail, but the bug seems not to be in |
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3155 Emacs. The workaround is to run the shell command in install-doc by |
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3156 hand. |
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3157 |
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3158 **** Digital Unix 4.0: Garbled display on non-X terminals when Emacs runs. |
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3159 |
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3160 So far it appears that running `tset' triggers this problem (when TERM |
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3161 is vt100, at least). If you do not run `tset', then Emacs displays |
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3162 properly. If someone can tell us precisely which effect of running |
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3163 `tset' actually causes the problem, we may be able to implement a fix |
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3164 in Emacs. |
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3165 |
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3166 **** Ultrix: `expand-file-name' fails to work on any but the machine you dumped Emacs on. |
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3167 |
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3168 On Ultrix, if you use any of the functions which look up information |
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3169 in the passwd database before dumping Emacs (say, by using |
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3170 expand-file-name in site-init.el), then those functions will not work |
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3171 in the dumped Emacs on any host but the one Emacs was dumped on. |
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3172 |
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3173 The solution? Don't use expand-file-name in site-init.el, or in |
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3174 anything it loads. Yuck - some solution. |
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3175 |
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3176 I'm not sure why this happens; if you can find out exactly what is |
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3177 going on, and perhaps find a fix or a workaround, please let us know. |
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3178 Perhaps the YP functions cache some information, the cache is included |
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3179 in the dumped Emacs, and is then inaccurate on any other host. |
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3180 |
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3181 *** SVr4 |
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3182 |
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3183 **** SVr4: On some variants of SVR4, Emacs does not work at all with X. |
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3184 |
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3185 Try defining BROKEN_FIONREAD in your config.h file. If this solves |
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3186 the problem, please send a bug report to tell us this is needed; be |
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3187 sure to say exactly what type of machine and system you are using. |
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3188 |
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3189 **** SVr4: After running emacs once, subsequent invocations crash. |
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3190 |
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3191 Some versions of SVR4 have a serious bug in the implementation of the |
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3192 mmap () system call in the kernel; this causes emacs to run correctly |
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3193 the first time, and then crash when run a second time. |
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3194 |
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3195 Contact your vendor and ask for the mmap bug fix; in the mean time, |
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3196 you may be able to work around the problem by adding a line to your |
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3197 operating system description file (whose name is reported by the |
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3198 configure script) that reads: |
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3199 #define SYSTEM_MALLOC |
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3200 This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around |
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3201 the kernel bug. |
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3202 |
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3203 *** Irix 5 and earlier |
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3204 |
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3205 Exactly when Irix-5 end-of-lifed is obscure. But since Irix 6.0 |
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3206 shipped in 1994, it has been some years. |
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3207 |
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3208 **** Irix 5.2: unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h. |
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3209 |
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3210 The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the |
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3211 Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset |
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3212 compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy |
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3213 workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of |
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3214 syms.h. |
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3215 |
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3216 **** Irix 5.3: "out of virtual swap space". |
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3217 |
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3218 This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too |
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3219 many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more |
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3220 swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You |
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3221 can check the current status of the swap space by executing the |
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3222 command `swap -l'. |
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3223 |
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3224 You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a |
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3225 line like this: |
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3226 |
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3227 /usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0 |
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3228 |
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3229 where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance |
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3230 by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of |
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3231 that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the |
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3232 new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further |
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3233 information. |
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3235 The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be |
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3236 swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users |
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3237 on the network that can log on to the host. |
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3238 |
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3239 If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute |
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3240 the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable |
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3241 some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM |
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3242 icons. |
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3243 |
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3244 You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin' |
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3245 FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35 |
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3246 ("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at |
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3247 ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/. |
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3248 |
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3249 **** Irix 5.3: Emacs crashes in utmpname. |
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3250 |
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3251 This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3. |
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3252 It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up. |
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3253 |
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3254 **** Irix 6.0: Make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi. |
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3255 |
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3256 A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o" |
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3257 in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run, |
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3258 find that string, and take out the spaces. |
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3259 |
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3260 Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem. |
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3261 |
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3262 *** SCO Unix and UnixWare |
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3263 |
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3264 **** SCO 3.2v4: Unusable default font. |
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3265 |
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3266 The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings |
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3267 that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such |
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3268 fonts, so it does not work. |
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3269 |
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3270 This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is |
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3271 the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal |
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3272 emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources |
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3273 that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these |
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3274 resources affect Emacs also: |
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3275 |
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3276 *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-* |
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3277 *Background: scoBackground |
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3278 *Foreground: scoForeground |
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3279 |
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3280 The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for |
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3281 Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents: |
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3282 |
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3283 Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 |
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3284 Emacs*Background: white |
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3285 Emacs*Foreground: black |
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3286 |
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3287 (These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to |
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3288 suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server |
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3289 starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop |
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3290 environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell |
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3291 as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the |
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3292 /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs, |
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3293 but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the |
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3294 Open Desktop display. |
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3295 |
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3296 These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO |
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3297 machines; you must create the file on each machine individually. |
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3298 |
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3299 **** SCO 4.2.0: Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems. |
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3300 |
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3301 On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled |
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3302 with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C |
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3303 version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick |
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3304 C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with |
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3305 GCC. |
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3306 |
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3307 **** UnixWare 2.1: Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs. |
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3308 |
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3309 Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed |
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3310 virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during |
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3311 the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That |
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3312 error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been |
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3313 exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual |
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3314 memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs. |
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3315 |
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3316 You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh). |
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3317 But you have to be root to do it. |
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3318 |
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3319 According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel: |
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3320 |
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3321 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit |
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3322 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard " |
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3323 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit |
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3324 # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard " |
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3325 # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B |
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3326 |
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3327 (He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.) |
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3328 These changes take effect when you reboot. |
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3329 |
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3330 *** Linux 1.x |
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3331 |
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3332 **** Linux 1.0-1.04: Typing C-c C-c in Shell mode kills your X server. |
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3333 |
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3334 This happens with Linux kernel 1.0 thru 1.04, approximately. The workaround is |
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3335 to define SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS in config.h and recompile Emacs. |
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3336 Newer Linux kernel versions don't have this problem. |
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3337 |
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3338 **** Linux 1.3: Output from subprocess (such as man or diff) is randomly |
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3339 truncated on GNU/Linux systems. |
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3341 This is due to a kernel bug which seems to be fixed in Linux version |
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3342 1.3.75. |
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3343 |
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3344 ** Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and ME |
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3345 |
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3346 *** MS-Windows NT/95: Problems running Perl under Emacs |
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3347 |
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3348 `perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell. |
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3349 The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95). |
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3350 |
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3351 The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to |
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3352 "CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting |
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3353 with the user. |
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3354 |
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3355 On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a |
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3356 pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to |
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3357 communicate with the subprocess. |
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3358 |
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3359 On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the |
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3360 relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be |
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3361 redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as |
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3362 stdin. |
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3363 |
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3364 A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON. |
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3365 |
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3366 For Perl 4: |
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3367 |
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3368 *** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993 |
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3369 --- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996 |
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3370 *************** |
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3371 *** 68,74 **** |
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3372 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3373 } |
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3374 else { |
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3375 ! $console = "con"; |
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3376 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3377 } |
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3378 |
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3379 --- 68,74 ---- |
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3380 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3381 } |
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3382 else { |
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3383 ! $console = ""; |
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3384 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3385 } |
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3386 |
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3387 |
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3388 For Perl 5: |
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3389 *** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995 |
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3390 --- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996 |
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3391 *************** |
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3392 *** 22,28 **** |
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3393 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3394 } |
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3395 elsif (-e "con") { |
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3396 ! $console = "con"; |
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3397 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3398 } |
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3399 else { |
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3400 --- 22,28 ---- |
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3401 $rcfile=".perldb"; |
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3402 } |
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3403 elsif (-e "con") { |
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3404 ! $console = ""; |
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3405 $rcfile="perldb.ini"; |
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3406 } |
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3407 else { |
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3408 |
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3409 *** MS-Windows 95: Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs. |
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3410 |
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3411 This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95. |
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3412 You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6. |
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3413 |
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3414 *** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: subprocesses do not terminate properly. |
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3415 |
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3416 This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems |
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3417 when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited |
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3418 cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at |
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3419 http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/. |
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3420 |
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3421 *** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: crashes when Emacs invokes non-existent programs. |
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3422 |
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3423 When a program you are trying to run is not found on the PATH, |
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3424 Windows might respond by crashing or locking up your system. In |
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3425 particular, this has been reported when trying to compile a Java |
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3426 program in JDEE when javac.exe is installed, but not on the system |
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3427 PATH. |
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3428 |
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3429 ** MS-DOS |
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3430 |
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3431 *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT, "config msdos" fails. |
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3432 |
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3433 If the error message is "VDM has been already loaded", this is because |
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3434 Windows has a program called `redir.exe' that is incompatible with a |
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3435 program by the same name supplied with DJGPP, which is used by |
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3436 config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to |
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3437 the front of your PATH environment variable. |
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3438 |
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3439 *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows 95, Make fails for some targets |
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3440 like make-docfile. |
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3441 |
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3442 This can happen if long file name support (the setting of environment |
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3443 variable LFN) when Emacs distribution was unpacked and during |
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3444 compilation are not the same. See the MSDOG section of INSTALL for |
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3445 the explanation of how to avoid this problem. |
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3446 |
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3447 *** Emacs compiled with DJGPP complains at startup: |
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3448 |
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3449 "Wrong type of argument: internal-facep, msdos-menu-active-face" |
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3450 |
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3451 This can happen if you define an environment variable `TERM'. Emacs |
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3452 on MSDOS uses an internal terminal emulator which is disabled if the |
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3453 value of `TERM' is anything but the string "internal". Emacs then |
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3454 works as if its terminal were a dumb glass teletype that doesn't |
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3455 support faces. To work around this, arrange for `TERM' to be |
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3456 undefined when Emacs runs. The best way to do that is to add an |
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3457 [emacs] section to the DJGPP.ENV file which defines an empty value for |
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3458 `TERM'; this way, only Emacs gets the empty value, while the rest of |
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3459 your system works as before. |
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3460 |
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3461 *** MS-DOS: Emacs crashes at startup. |
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3462 |
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3463 Some users report that Emacs 19.29 requires dpmi memory management, |
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3464 and crashes on startup if the system does not have it. We don't yet |
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3465 know why this happens--perhaps these machines don't have enough real |
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3466 memory, or perhaps something is wrong in Emacs or the compiler. |
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3467 However, arranging to use dpmi support is a workaround. |
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3469 You can find out if you have a dpmi host by running go32 without |
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3470 arguments; it will tell you if it uses dpmi memory. For more |
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3471 information about dpmi memory, consult the djgpp FAQ. (djgpp |
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3472 is the GNU C compiler as packaged for MSDOS.) |
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3474 Compiling Emacs under MSDOS is extremely sensitive for proper memory |
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3475 configuration. If you experience problems during compilation, consider |
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3476 removing some or all memory resident programs (notably disk caches) |
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3477 and make sure that your memory managers are properly configured. See |
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3478 the djgpp faq for configuration hints. |
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3480 *** Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files |
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3481 in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any |
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3482 drive, e.g. `c:/dev'. |
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3484 This is an unfortunate side-effect of the support for Unix-style |
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3485 device names such as /dev/null in the DJGPP runtime library. A |
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3486 work-around is to rename the problem directory to another name. |
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3488 *** MS-DOS+DJGPP: Problems on MS-DOG if DJGPP v2.0 is used to compile Emacs. |
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3490 There are two DJGPP library bugs which cause problems: |
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3492 * Running `shell-command' (or `compile', or `grep') you get |
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3493 `Searching for program: permission denied (EACCES), c:/command.com'; |
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3494 * After you shell to DOS, Ctrl-Break kills Emacs. |
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3496 To work around these bugs, you can use two files in the msdos |
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3497 subdirectory: `is_exec.c' and `sigaction.c'. Compile them and link |
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3498 them into the Emacs executable `temacs'; then they will replace the |
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3499 incorrect library functions. |
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3501 *** MS-DOS: Emacs compiled for MSDOS cannot find some Lisp files, or other |
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3502 run-time support files, when long filename support is enabled. |
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3504 Usually, this problem will manifest itself when Emacs exits |
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3505 immediately after flashing the startup screen, because it cannot find |
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3506 the Lisp files it needs to load at startup. Redirect Emacs stdout |
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3507 and stderr to a file to see the error message printed by Emacs. |
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3509 Another manifestation of this problem is that Emacs is unable to load |
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3510 the support for editing program sources in languages such as C and |
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3511 Lisp. |
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3513 This can happen if the Emacs distribution was unzipped without LFN |
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3514 support, thus causing long filenames to be truncated to the first 6 |
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3515 characters and a numeric tail that Windows 95 normally attaches to it. |
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3516 You should unzip the files again with a utility that supports long |
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3517 filenames (such as djtar from DJGPP or InfoZip's UnZip program |
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3518 compiled with DJGPP v2). The MSDOG section of the file INSTALL |
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3519 explains this issue in more detail. |
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3521 Another possible reason for such failures is that Emacs compiled for |
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3522 MSDOS is used on Windows NT, where long file names are not supported |
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3523 by this version of Emacs, but the distribution was unpacked by an |
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3524 unzip program that preserved the long file names instead of truncating |
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3525 them to DOS 8+3 limits. To be useful on NT, the MSDOS port of Emacs |
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3526 must be unzipped by a DOS utility, so that long file names are |
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3527 properly truncated. |
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3528 |
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3529 ** Archaic window managers and toolkits |
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3530 |
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3531 *** OpenLook: Under OpenLook, the Emacs window disappears when you type M-q. |
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3532 |
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3533 Some versions of the Open Look window manager interpret M-q as a quit |
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3534 command for whatever window you are typing at. If you want to use |
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3535 Emacs with that window manager, you should try to configure the window |
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3536 manager to use some other command. You can disable the |
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3537 shortcut keys entirely by adding this line to ~/.OWdefaults: |
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3539 OpenWindows.WindowMenuAccelerators: False |
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3540 |
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3541 **** twm: A position you specified in .Xdefaults is ignored, using twm. |
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3542 |
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3543 twm normally ignores "program-specified" positions. |
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3544 You can tell it to obey them with this command in your `.twmrc' file: |
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3546 UsePPosition "on" #allow clients to request a position |
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3548 ** Bugs related to old DEC hardware |
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3549 |
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3550 *** The Compose key on a DEC keyboard does not work as Meta key. |
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3552 This shell command should fix it: |
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3553 |
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3554 xmodmap -e 'keycode 0xb1 = Meta_L' |
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3555 |
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3556 *** Keyboard input gets confused after a beep when using a DECserver |
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3557 as a concentrator. |
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3559 This problem seems to be a matter of configuring the DECserver to use |
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3560 7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters. |
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3562 * Build problems on legacy systems |
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3563 |
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3564 ** BSD/386 1.0: --with-x-toolkit option configures wrong. |
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3566 This problem is due to bugs in the shell in version 1.0 of BSD/386. |
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3567 The workaround is to edit the configure file to use some other shell, |
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3568 such as bash. |
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3570 ** Digital Unix 4.0: Emacs fails to build, giving error message |
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3571 Invalid dimension for the charset-ID 160 |
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3573 This is due to a bug or an installation problem in GCC 2.8.0. |
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3574 Installing a more recent version of GCC fixes the problem. |
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3576 ** Digital Unix 4.0: Failure in unexec while dumping emacs. |
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3578 This problem manifests itself as an error message |
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3580 unexec: Bad address, writing data section to ... |
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3582 The user suspects that this happened because his X libraries |
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3583 were built for an older system version, |
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3584 |
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3585 ./configure --x-includes=/usr/include --x-libraries=/usr/shlib |
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3586 |
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3587 made the problem go away. |
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3588 |
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3589 ** Sunos 4.1.1: there are errors compiling sysdep.c. |
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3590 |
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3591 If you get errors such as |
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3592 |
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3593 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union |
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3594 "sysdep.c", line 2017: undefined structure or union |
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3595 "sysdep.c", line 2019: nodename undefined |
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3597 This can result from defining LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It is very tricky |
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3598 to use that environment variable with Emacs. The Emacs configure |
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3599 script links many test programs with the system libraries; you must |
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3600 make sure that the libraries available to configure are the same |
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3601 ones available when you build Emacs. |
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3603 ** SunOS 4.1.1: You get this error message from GNU ld: |
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3605 /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment |
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3607 The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld. |
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3609 The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun. |
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3610 |
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3611 ** Sunos 4.1: Undefined symbols when linking using --with-x-toolkit. |
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3613 If you get the undefined symbols _atowc _wcslen, _iswprint, _iswspace, |
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3614 _iswcntrl, _wcscpy, and _wcsncpy, then you need to add -lXwchar after |
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3615 -lXaw in the command that links temacs. |
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3617 This problem seems to arise only when the international language |
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3618 extensions to X11R5 are installed. |
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3619 |
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3620 ** SunOS: Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun. |
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3622 If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or |
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3623 `ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates |
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3624 that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries, |
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3625 with a floating point option other than the default. |
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3626 |
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3627 It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in |
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3628 crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o. |
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3629 However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default |
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3630 floating point option: -fsoft. |
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3632 ** SunOS: Undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym and/or _dlclose. |
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3634 If you see undefined symbols _dlopen, _dlsym, or _dlclose when linking |
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3635 with -lX11, compile and link against the file mit/util/misc/dlsym.c in |
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3636 the MIT X11R5 distribution. Alternatively, link temacs using shared |
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3637 libraries with s/sunos4shr.h. (This doesn't work if you use the X |
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3638 toolkit.) |
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3639 |
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3640 If you get the additional error that the linker could not find |
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3641 lib_version.o, try extracting it from X11/usr/lib/X11/libvim.a in |
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3642 X11R4, then use it in the link. |
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3644 ** SunOS4, DGUX 5.4.2: --with-x-toolkit version crashes when used with shared libraries. |
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3645 |
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3646 On some systems, including Sunos 4 and DGUX 5.4.2 and perhaps others, |
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3647 unexec doesn't work properly with the shared library for the X |
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3648 toolkit. You might be able to work around this by using a nonshared |
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3649 libXt.a library. The real fix is to upgrade the various versions of |
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3650 unexec and/or ralloc. We think this has been fixed on Sunos 4 |
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3651 and Solaris in version 19.29. |
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3652 |
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3653 ** HPUX 10.20: Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine. |
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3654 |
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3655 This seems to be due to a GCC bug; it is fixed in GCC 2.8.1. |
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3656 |
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3657 ** VMS: Compilation errors on VMS. |
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3659 You will get warnings when compiling on VMS because there are |
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3660 variable names longer than 32 (or whatever it is) characters. |
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3661 This is not an error. Ignore it. |
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3662 |
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3663 VAX C does not support #if defined(foo). Uses of this construct |
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3664 were removed, but some may have crept back in. They must be rewritten. |
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3665 |
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3666 There is a bug in the C compiler which fails to sign extend characters |
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3667 in conditional expressions. The bug is: |
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3668 char c = -1, d = 1; |
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3669 int i; |
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3670 |
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3671 i = d ? c : d; |
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3672 The result is i == 255; the fix is to typecast the char in the |
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3673 conditional expression as an (int). Known occurrences of such |
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3674 constructs in Emacs have been fixed. |
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3676 ** Vax C compiler bugs affecting Emacs. |
25853 | 3677 |
3678 You may get one of these problems compiling Emacs: | |
3679 | |
3680 foo.c line nnn: compiler error: no table entry for op STASG | |
3681 foo.c: fatal error in /lib/ccom | |
3682 | |
3683 These are due to bugs in the C compiler; the code is valid C. | |
3684 Unfortunately, the bugs are unpredictable: the same construct | |
3685 may compile properly or trigger one of these bugs, depending | |
3686 on what else is in the source file being compiled. Even changes | |
3687 in header files that should not affect the file being compiled | |
3688 can affect whether the bug happens. In addition, sometimes files | |
3689 that compile correctly on one machine get this bug on another machine. | |
3690 | |
3691 As a result, it is hard for me to make sure this bug will not affect | |
3692 you. I have attempted to find and alter these constructs, but more | |
3693 can always appear. However, I can tell you how to deal with it if it | |
3694 should happen. The bug comes from having an indexed reference to an | |
3695 array of Lisp_Objects, as an argument in a function call: | |
3696 Lisp_Object *args; | |
3697 ... | |
3698 ... foo (5, args[i], ...)... | |
3699 putting the argument into a temporary variable first, as in | |
3700 Lisp_Object *args; | |
3701 Lisp_Object tem; | |
3702 ... | |
3703 tem = args[i]; | |
3704 ... foo (r, tem, ...)... | |
3705 causes the problem to go away. | |
3706 The `contents' field of a Lisp vector is an array of Lisp_Objects, | |
3707 so you may see the problem happening with indexed references to that. | |
3708 | |
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3709 ** 68000 C compiler problems |
25853 | 3710 |
3711 Various 68000 compilers have different problems. | |
3712 These are some that have been observed. | |
3713 | |
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3714 *** Using value of assignment expression on union type loses. |
25853 | 3715 This means that x = y = z; or foo (x = z); does not work |
3716 if x is of type Lisp_Object. | |
3717 | |
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3718 *** "cannot reclaim" error. |
25853 | 3719 |
3720 This means that an expression is too complicated. You get the correct | |
3721 line number in the error message. The code must be rewritten with | |
3722 simpler expressions. | |
3723 | |
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3724 *** XCONS, XSTRING, etc macros produce incorrect code. |
25853 | 3725 |
3726 If temacs fails to run at all, this may be the cause. | |
3727 Compile this test program and look at the assembler code: | |
3728 | |
3729 struct foo { char x; unsigned int y : 24; }; | |
3730 | |
3731 lose (arg) | |
3732 struct foo arg; | |
3733 { | |
3734 test ((int *) arg.y); | |
3735 } | |
3736 | |
3737 If the code is incorrect, your compiler has this problem. | |
3738 In the XCONS, etc., macros in lisp.h you must replace (a).u.val with | |
3739 ((a).u.val + coercedummy) where coercedummy is declared as int. | |
3740 | |
3741 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type | |
3742 of machine defines NO_UNION_TYPE. That is the recommended setting now. | |
3743 | |
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3744 *** C compilers lose on returning unions. |
25853 | 3745 |
3746 I hear that some C compilers cannot handle returning a union type. | |
3747 Most of the functions in GNU Emacs return type Lisp_Object, which is | |
3748 defined as a union on some rare architectures. | |
3749 | |
3750 This problem will not happen if the m-...h file for your type | |
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3756 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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3758 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) |
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3759 any later version. |
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3761 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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3763 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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3764 GNU General Public License for more details. |
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3768 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, |
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3769 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. |
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