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Merge from emacs--devo--0 Patches applied: * emacs--devo--0 (patch 675-697) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 - Release ERC 5.2. * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 211-215) - Update from CVS - Merge from emacs--devo--0 Revision: [e-mail]/emacs--unicode--0--patch-189

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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715.

** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ crashes on startup on cygwin.

A typical error message is
  ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: GSlice: failed to allocate 504 bytes 
  (alignment: 512): Function not implemented

Emacs supplies its own malloc, but glib (part of Gtk+) calls memalign and on
cygwin that becomes the cygwin supplied memalign.  As malloc is not the
cygwin malloc, the cygwin memalign always returns ENOSYS.  A fix for this

pop-up menu interaction.

Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text
for menus.  Help text is only available in later versions of Windows.

There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the
mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first
frame.  A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame
after moving back into it.

not as severely as in 21.1.

An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows
Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed.

Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs.  Some
of these input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded
in the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1
characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.).  To make this
work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after
you activate the Windows input method.  For example, if you activate
the Hebrew input method, type "C-x RET k iso-8859-8 RET".  (Emacs
ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the
appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that
yet.)

The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated
month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions
of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system
library function.

`--enable-shared' option and then rebuild libjpeg.  This produces a
shared version of libjpeg, which you need to install.  Finally, rerun
the Emacs configure script, which should now find the jpeg library.
Alternatively, modify the generated src/Makefile to link the .a file
explicitly, and edit src/config.h to define HAVE_JPEG.

** Compilation

*** Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''.

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

You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package
supplies the `install-info' command.

** First execution

*** Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run.

90796:4ef881a120fe

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715.

** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ crashes on startup on cygwin.

A typical error message is
  ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: GSlice: failed to allocate 504 bytes
  (alignment: 512): Function not implemented

Emacs supplies its own malloc, but glib (part of Gtk+) calls memalign and on
cygwin that becomes the cygwin supplied memalign.  As malloc is not the
cygwin malloc, the cygwin memalign always returns ENOSYS.  A fix for this

pop-up menu interaction.

Windows 95 and Windows NT up to version 4.0 do not support help text
for menus.  Help text is only available in later versions of Windows.

When "ClearType" method is selected as the "method to smooth edges of
screen fonts" (in Display Properties, Appearance tab, under
"Effects"), there are various problems related to display of
characters: 2-pixel trace is left behind when moving overlays, bold
fonts can be hard to read, small portions of some characters could
appear chopped, etc.  This happens because, under ClearType,
characters are drawn outside their advertised bounding box.  Emacs 21
disabled the use of ClearType, whereas Emacs 22 allows it and has some
code to enlarge the width of the bounding box.  Apparently, this
display feature needs more changes to get it 100% right.  A workaround
is to disable ClearType.

There are problems with display if mouse-tracking is enabled and the
mouse is moved off a frame, over another frame then back over the first
frame.  A workaround is to click the left mouse button inside the frame
after moving back into it.

not as severely as in 21.1.

An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows
Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed.

Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs.  However, some
of these input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded
in the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1
characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.).  To make these
input methods work with Emacs, set the keyboard coding system to the
appropriate value after you activate the Windows input method.  For
example, if you activate the Hebrew input method, type this:

   C-x RET k hebrew-iso-8bit RET

(Emacs ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up
the appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do
that yet.)  In addition, to use these Windows input methods, you
should set your "Language for non-Unicode programs" (on Windows XP,
this is on the Advanced tab of Regional Settings) to the language of
the input method.

To bind keys that produce non-ASCII characters with modifiers, you
must specify raw byte codes. For instance, if you want to bind
META-a-grave to a command, you need to specify this in your `~/.emacs':

  (global-set-key [?\M-\340] ...)

The above example is for the Latin-1 environment where the byte code
of the encoded a-grave is 340 octal.  For other environments, use the
encoding appropriate to that environment.

The %b specifier for format-time-string does not produce abbreviated
month names with consistent widths for some locales on some versions
of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system
library function.

`--enable-shared' option and then rebuild libjpeg.  This produces a
shared version of libjpeg, which you need to install.  Finally, rerun
the Emacs configure script, which should now find the jpeg library.
Alternatively, modify the generated src/Makefile to link the .a file
explicitly, and edit src/config.h to define HAVE_JPEG.

*** `configure' warns ``accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor''.

This indicates a mismatch between the C compiler and preprocessor that
configure is using.  For example, on Solaris 10 trying to use
CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc (the Sun Studio compiler) together with
CPP=/usr/ccs/lib/cpp can result in errors of this form (you may also
see the error ``"/usr/include/sys/isa_defs.h", line 500: undefined control'').

The solution is to tell configure to use the correct C preprocessor
for your C compiler (CPP="/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -E" in the above
example).

*** `configure' fails with ``"junk.c", line 660: invalid input token: 8.elc''

The final stage of the Emacs configure process uses the C preprocessor
to generate the Makefiles.  Errors of this form can occur if the C
preprocessor inserts extra whitespace into its output.  The solution
is to find the switches that stop your preprocessor from inserting extra
whitespace, add them to CPPFLAGS, and re-run configure.  For example,
this error can occur on Solaris 10 when using the Sun Studio compiler
``Sun C 5.8'' with its preprocessor CPP="/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -E".
The relevant switch in this case is "-Xs" (``compile assuming
(pre-ANSI) K & R C style code'').

** Compilation

*** Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''.

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

You need to install a recent version of Texinfo; that package
supplies the `install-info' command.

*** Installing to a directory with spaces in the name fails.

For example, if you call configure with a directory-related option
with spaces in the value, eg --enable-locallisppath='/path/with\ spaces'.
Using directory paths with spaces is not supported at this time: you
must re-configure without using spaces.

** First execution

*** Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run.