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distributions, such as Debian, may already have applied such a patch.)

--- lisp/un-define.el	6 Mar 2001 22:41:38 -0000	1.30
+++ lisp/un-define.el	19 Apr 2002 18:34:26 -0000
@@ -610,13 +624,21 @@ by calling post-read-conversion and pre-
 
  (mapcar
   (lambda (x)
-    (mapcar
-     (lambda (y)
-       (mucs-define-coding-system

*** 41,47 ****
  /*
   * If not debugging, assert does nothing.
   */
! #define assert(x)	((void)0);
  
  #else /* debugging enabled */
  
--- 41,47 ----
  /*
   * If not debugging, assert does nothing.
   */
! #define assert(x)	((void)0)
  
  #else /* debugging enabled */
  


* Improving performance with slow X connections

There are several ways to improve this performance, any subset of which can

* Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version.

An example of such an error is:

  x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" 

This can be another symptom of stale *.elc files in your classpath.
The following command will print any duplicate Lisp files that are
present in load-path:

remotely, M-SPC acts as a `compose' key with strange results.  See
keyboard(5).

Changing Alt_L to Meta_L fixes it:
% xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L'
% xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_R = Meta_R Alt_R'  

* Error "conflicting types for `initstate'" compiling with GCC on Irix 6.

Install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this problem should go away.
It is possible that this problem results from upgrading the operating

	 }
	 return ret;


* Emacs crashes on Irix 6.5 on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC.
  
This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95.

* Emacs crashes in utmpname on Irix 5.3.

This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3.

the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales).

You can fix this by editing the file:

	/usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose
	
Near the bottom there is a line that reads:

	Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y>                  : "\276"        threequarters

that should read:

* When using Exceed, fonts sometimes appear too tall.

When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified
(either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources)
then the fonts may appear "too tall".  The actual character sizes are
correct but there is too much vertical spacing between rows,  which 
gives the appearance of "double spacing".  

To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution"
feature (in the font part of the configuration window).

* Failure in unexec while dumping emacs on Digital Unix 4.0

* After a while, Emacs slips into unibyte mode.

The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does
  (standard-display-european t)
That should be changed to 
  (standard-display-european 1 t)

* Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'.

You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package

Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug.  It is reported that if
you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed.
We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know
for certain.

        103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes) 
        102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes) 
	103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)

(One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together
with patches 102980-04, 103279-01, 103300-02, and 103468-01.)

On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
`unknown' is one of them.  Install the "Special Generic Terminal
Definitions" to make them defined.

* On SunOS, you get linker errors
   ld: Undefined symbol 
      _get_wmShellWidgetClass
      _get_applicationShellWidgetClass

The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
or link libXmu statically.

    127.0.0.1      HOSTNAME

Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
lines:

    order hosts, bind 
    multi on

Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections

releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys.

* display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems.

Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other
versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT 
cells.  Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted.
This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other 
processes die, in particular pcnfsd.
	
Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have 
the same problem.  Display-time seems to be far the worst.

The only known fix: Don't run display-time.

* On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.

on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line.  You can fix the
problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:

    if ($?EMACS) then
        if ($EMACS == "t") then
            unset edit 
            stty  -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
        endif
    endif

* An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid

#define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar

* On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld:

    /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment 

The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.

The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.

* Shell mode on HP/UX gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".

[e-mail] says:

The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then 
tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places, 
but tty is giving it back 3.

The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a single
word: 

if (`tty` == "/dev/console") 

should be changed to:

if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console") 

Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
and into .login.

* Using X Windows, control-shift-leftbutton makes Emacs hang.

* Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun.

If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or
`ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates
that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries, 
with a floating point option other than the default.

It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in
crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o.
However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default

7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters.

* M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1".

This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos
version 4.0.x.  The only fix was to reboot the machine. 

* Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
  terminal type.

The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP

You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil).
However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that
you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g.

The easy way to do this is to put 

  (setq x-sigio-bug t)

in your site-init.el file.

49600:23a1cea22d13

distributions, such as Debian, may already have applied such a patch.)

--- lisp/un-define.el	6 Mar 2001 22:41:38 -0000	1.30
+++ lisp/un-define.el	19 Apr 2002 18:34:26 -0000
@@ -610,13 +624,21 @@ by calling post-read-conversion and pre-

  (mapcar
   (lambda (x)
-    (mapcar
-     (lambda (y)
-       (mucs-define-coding-system

*** 41,47 ****
  /*
   * If not debugging, assert does nothing.
   */
! #define assert(x)	((void)0);

  #else /* debugging enabled */

--- 41,47 ----
  /*
   * If not debugging, assert does nothing.
   */
! #define assert(x)	((void)0)

  #else /* debugging enabled */



* Improving performance with slow X connections

There are several ways to improve this performance, any subset of which can

* Emacs prints an error at startup after upgrading from an earlier version.

An example of such an error is:

  x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"

This can be another symptom of stale *.elc files in your classpath.
The following command will print any duplicate Lisp files that are
present in load-path:

remotely, M-SPC acts as a `compose' key with strange results.  See
keyboard(5).

Changing Alt_L to Meta_L fixes it:
% xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L'
% xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_R = Meta_R Alt_R'

* Error "conflicting types for `initstate'" compiling with GCC on Irix 6.

Install GCC 2.95 or a newer version, and this problem should go away.
It is possible that this problem results from upgrading the operating

	 }
	 return ret;


* Emacs crashes on Irix 6.5 on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC.

This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95.

* Emacs crashes in utmpname on Irix 5.3.

This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3.

the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales).

You can fix this by editing the file:

	/usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose

Near the bottom there is a line that reads:

	Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y>                  : "\276"        threequarters

that should read:

* When using Exceed, fonts sometimes appear too tall.

When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified
(either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources)
then the fonts may appear "too tall".  The actual character sizes are
correct but there is too much vertical spacing between rows,  which
gives the appearance of "double spacing".

To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution"
feature (in the font part of the configuration window).

* Failure in unexec while dumping emacs on Digital Unix 4.0

* After a while, Emacs slips into unibyte mode.

The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does
  (standard-display-european t)
That should be changed to
  (standard-display-european 1 t)

* Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'.

You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package

Solaris 2.5 comes with a linker that has this bug.  It is reported that if
you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed.
We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know
for certain.

        103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes)
        102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes)
	103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes)

(One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together
with patches 102980-04, 103279-01, 103300-02, and 103468-01.)

On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default.
`unknown' is one of them.  Install the "Special Generic Terminal
Definitions" to make them defined.

* On SunOS, you get linker errors
   ld: Undefined symbol
      _get_wmShellWidgetClass
      _get_applicationShellWidgetClass

The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0
or link libXmu statically.

    127.0.0.1      HOSTNAME

Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
lines:

    order hosts, bind
    multi on

Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
indicated in the `/etc/hosts' file, since it acts a limited local
database of addresses and names (e.g., some SLIP connections

releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys.

* display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems.

Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other
versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT
cells.  Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted.
This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other
processes die, in particular pcnfsd.

Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have
the same problem.  Display-time seems to be far the worst.

The only known fix: Don't run display-time.

* On Solaris, C-x doesn't get through to Emacs when you use the console.

on the flag to output ^M at the end of each line.  You can fix the
problem by adding this to your .cshrc file:

    if ($?EMACS) then
        if ($EMACS == "t") then
            unset edit
            stty  -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
        endif
    endif

* An error message such as `X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid

#define LIBS_SYSTEM -lresolv -lfoo -lbar

* On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld:

    /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment

The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.

The solution is to install Patch-ID# 100267-03 from Sun.

* Shell mode on HP/UX gives the message, "`tty`: Ambiguous".

[e-mail] says:

The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to
execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then
tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places,
but tty is giving it back 3.

The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a single
word:

if (`tty` == "/dev/console")

should be changed to:

if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")

Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
and into .login.

* Using X Windows, control-shift-leftbutton makes Emacs hang.

* Emacs gets error message from linker on Sun.

If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or
`ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates
that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries,
with a floating point option other than the default.

It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in
crt0.c together with linking with Fcrt1.o, Wcrt1.o or Mcrt1.o.
However, the easiest approach is to build Xlib with the default

7 bit characters rather than 8 bit characters.

* M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1".

This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos
version 4.0.x.  The only fix was to reboot the machine.

* Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs'
  terminal type.

The cause of this is a shell startup file that sets the TERMCAP

You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil).
However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that
you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g.

The easy way to do this is to put

  (setq x-sigio-bug t)

in your site-init.el file.