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Move the section aboiut XIMs on Solaris 8.

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This file describes various problems that have been encountered
in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs.

* Emacs dumps core on Solaris in function IMCheckWindow.

This was reported to happen when Emacs runs with more than one frame,
and one of them is closed, either with "C-x 5 0" or from the window
manager.

This bug was reported to Sun as

    Gtk apps dump core in ximlocal.so.2:IMCheckIMWindow()
    Bug Reports: 4463537

Installing Solaris 8 patch 108773-12 for Sparc and 108874-12 for x86
reportedly fixes the bug, which appears to be inside the shared
library xiiimp.so.

Alternatively, you can configure Emacs with `--with-xim=no' to prevent
the core dump, but will loose X input method support, of course.  (You
can use Emacs's own input methods instead, if you install Leim.)

* Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory.

This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one
of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released
version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those
dates.  The preprocessor in those versions expands ".." into ". .",
which breaks relative file names that reference the parent directory.

The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the
`-traditional' option.  (The `configure' script does that
automatically.)

Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of
Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles.

* Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail.

Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin
version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings.  It appears to be

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
system without reinstalling GCC; so you could also try reinstalling
the same version of GCC, and telling us whether that fixes the problem.

* On Solaris 7, Emacs gets a segmentation fault when starting up using X.

This results from Sun patch 107058-01 (SunOS 5.7: Patch for
assembler) if you use GCC version 2.7 or later.
To work around it, either install patch 106950-03 or later,

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This file describes various problems that have been encountered
in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs.

* Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail.

Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin
version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings.  It appears to be

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
system without reinstalling GCC; so you could also try reinstalling
the same version of GCC, and telling us whether that fixes the problem.

* Emacs dumps core on Solaris in function IMCheckWindow.

This was reported to happen when Emacs runs with more than one frame,
and one of them is closed, either with "C-x 5 0" or from the window
manager.

This bug was reported to Sun as

    Gtk apps dump core in ximlocal.so.2:IMCheckIMWindow()
    Bug Reports: 4463537

Installing Solaris 8 patch 108773-12 for Sparc and 108874-12 for x86
reportedly fixes the bug, which appears to be inside the shared
library xiiimp.so.

Alternatively, you can configure Emacs with `--with-xim=no' to prevent
the core dump, but will loose X input method support, of course.  (You
can use Emacs's own input methods instead, if you install Leim.)

* Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory.

This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one
of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released
version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those
dates.  The preprocessor in those versions expands ".." into ". .",
which breaks relative file names that reference the parent directory.

The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the
`-traditional' option.  (The `configure' script does that
automatically.)

Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of
Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles.

* On Solaris 7, Emacs gets a segmentation fault when starting up using X.

This results from Sun patch 107058-01 (SunOS 5.7: Patch for
assembler) if you use GCC version 2.7 or later.
To work around it, either install patch 106950-03 or later,