# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 1001531467 0 # Node ID 6381cf3c37bd538172b1793928de8bcb36fb8976 # Parent 7bc2236b1036b45bdb8f36f8c553c52999fec1f3 Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash. diff -r 7bc2236b1036 -r 6381cf3c37bd etc/PROBLEMS --- a/etc/PROBLEMS Wed Sep 26 19:04:28 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Wed Sep 26 19:11:07 2001 +0000 @@ -840,6 +840,17 @@ Any files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode won't be read correctly by Emacs 21. +* Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error. + +The error message might be something like this: + + "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth" + +This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a +built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch +for epop3 that fixes this, but perhaps a newer version of epop3 +corrects that. + * On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support.