comparison etc/PROBLEMS @ 101624:6033e5211761

* PROBLEMS (Windows): Add entry about TCC/4NT and App Paths keys.

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This happens because of bugs in Gtk+.  Gtk+ 2.10 seems to be OK.  See bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715.

** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ may loop forever if a display crashes.

This is related to the bug above.  A scenario for this is when emacs is run 
as a server, and an X frame is created.  If the X server for the frame
crashes or exits unexpectedly and an attempt is made to create a new
frame on another X display, then a Gtk+ error happens in the emacs
server that results in an endless loop.  This is not fixed in any known
Gtk+ version (2.14.4 being current).

be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
to allocate ptys reliably.

* Runtime problems specific to MS-Windows

** Setting w32-pass-rwindow-to-system and w32-pass-lwindow-to-system to nil
does not prevent the Start menu from popping up when the left or right
``Windows'' key is pressed.

This was reported to happen when XKeymacs is installed.  At least with

The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2.

** Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping (compiling the .el files) is normally only necessary
with CVS builds, since they the .elc files are pre-compiled in releases.

*** "No rule to make target" with Ubuntu 8.04 make 3.81-3build1

Compiling the lisp files fails at random places, complaining:
"No rule to make target `/path/to/some/lisp.elc'".

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This happens because of bugs in Gtk+.  Gtk+ 2.10 seems to be OK.  See bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715.

** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ may loop forever if a display crashes.

This is related to the bug above.  A scenario for this is when emacs is run
as a server, and an X frame is created.  If the X server for the frame
crashes or exits unexpectedly and an attempt is made to create a new
frame on another X display, then a Gtk+ error happens in the emacs
server that results in an endless loop.  This is not fixed in any known
Gtk+ version (2.14.4 being current).

be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able
to allocate ptys reliably.

* Runtime problems specific to MS-Windows

** PATH can contain unexpanded environment variables

Old releases of TCC (version 9) and 4NT (up to version 8) do not correctly
expand App Paths entries of type REG_EXPAND_SZ.  When Emacs is run from TCC
and such an entry exists for emacs.exe, exec-path will contain the
unexpanded entry.  This has been fixed in TCC 10.  For more information,
see bug#2062.

** Setting w32-pass-rwindow-to-system and w32-pass-lwindow-to-system to nil
does not prevent the Start menu from popping up when the left or right
``Windows'' key is pressed.

This was reported to happen when XKeymacs is installed.  At least with

The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2.

** Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping (compiling the .el files) is normally only necessary
with CVS builds, since the .elc files are pre-compiled in releases.

*** "No rule to make target" with Ubuntu 8.04 make 3.81-3build1

Compiling the lisp files fails at random places, complaining:
"No rule to make target `/path/to/some/lisp.elc'".