diff etc/PROBLEMS @ 90813:e6fdae9180d4

Merge from emacs--devo--0 Patches applied: * emacs--devo--0 (patch 698-710) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 216) - Update from CVS Revision: [e-mail]/emacs--unicode--0--patch-196

--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Tue Apr 24 11:35:23 2007 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Tue Apr 24 21:56:25 2007 +0000
@@ -217,15 +217,15 @@
 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+ crashes on startup on cygwin.
+** 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
+Cygwin, that becomes the Cygwin supplied memalign.  As malloc is not the
+Cygwin malloc, the Cygwin memalign always returns ENOSYS.  A fix for this
 problem would be welcome.
 
 * General runtime problems
@@ -390,9 +390,13 @@
 
 *** Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name.
 
+For example, (system-name) returns some variation on
+"localhost.localdomain", rather the name you were expecting.
+
 You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name,
-either in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system
-calls for specifying this.
+(i.e. a name with at least one ".") either in /etc/hosts,
+/etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system calls for specifying
+this.
 
 If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable
 mail-host-address to the value you want.
@@ -1202,7 +1206,7 @@
 emulation for which it is set up.
 
 Only the Motif 1.2 emulation seems to be stable enough in LessTif.
-Lesstif 0.92-17's Motif 1.2 emulation seems to work okay on FreeBSD.
+LessTif 0.92-17's Motif 1.2 emulation seems to work okay on FreeBSD.
 On GNU/Linux systems, lesstif-0.92.6 configured with "./configure
 --enable-build-12 --enable-default-12" is reported to be the most
 successful.  The binary GNU/Linux package
@@ -1299,7 +1303,7 @@
    improves performance dramatically, at the slight expense of correctness
    of the X protocol.  lbxproxy acheives the performance gain by grouping
    several X requests in one TCP packet and sending them off together,
-   instead of requiring a round-trip for each X request in a seperate
+   instead of requiring a round-trip for each X request in a separate
    packet.  The switches that seem to work best for emacs are:
     -noatomsfile  -nowinattr  -cheaterrors -cheatevents
    Note that the -nograbcmap option is known to cause problems.
@@ -1405,7 +1409,7 @@
 
 in your site-init.el file.
 
-* Runtime problems on character termunals
+* Runtime problems on character terminals
 
 ** Emacs spontaneously displays "I-search: " at the bottom of the screen.
 
@@ -2356,7 +2360,7 @@
 *** Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''.
 
 This was reported to happen when building Emacs on a GNU/Linux system
-(RedHat Linux 6.2) using a build directory automounted from Solaris
+(Red Hat Linux 6.2) using a build directory automounted from Solaris
 (SunOS 5.6) file server, but it might not be limited to that
 configuration alone.  Presumably, the NFS server doesn't commit the
 files' data to disk quickly enough, and the Emacs executable file is
@@ -2443,17 +2447,17 @@
 
 (using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system).
 
-*** Building the Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC version
+*** Building the Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC versions
 
 Building Emacs 22 with Cygwin builds of GCC 3.4.4-1 and 3.4.4-2 is
 reported to either fail or cause Emacs to segfault at run time.  In
 addition, the Cygwin GCC 3.4.4-2 has problems with generating debug
 info.  Cygwin users are advised not to use these versions of GCC for
-compiling Emacs.  GCC versions 4.0.3, 4.1.1, and 4.1.2 reportedly
-build a working Cygwin binary of Emacs, so we recommend these GCC
-versions.  Note that these three versions of GCC, 4.0.3, 4.1.1, and
-4.1.2, are currently the _only_ versions known to succeed in building
-Emacs (as of v22.1).
+compiling Emacs.  GCC versions 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1.1, and 4.1.2
+reportedly build a working Cygwin binary of Emacs, so we recommend
+these GCC versions.  Note that these versions of GCC, 4.0.3, 4.0.4,
+4.1.1, and 4.1.2, are currently the _only_ versions known to succeed
+in building Emacs (as of v22.1).
 
 *** Building the native MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail.
 
@@ -2604,7 +2608,7 @@
 
 *** Linux: Segfault during `make bootstrap' under certain recent versions of the Linux kernel.
 
-With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Redhat Fedora Core
+With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Red Hat Fedora Core
 1 and newer), the new "Exec-shield" functionality is enabled by default, which
 creates a different memory layout that breaks the emacs dumper.  Emacs tries
 to handle this at build time, but if the workaround used fails, these