Mercurial > emacs
changeset 35499:1f86a3c25e8d
Document problems (with WinZip) whereby *.tit files get converted
to DOS-style EOLs while unpacking Leim.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:09:48 +0000 |
| parents | add3de5a4293 |
| children | 38b437f4134e |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Wed Jan 24 06:53:23 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Wed Jan 24 08:09:48 2001 +0000 @@ -13,6 +13,28 @@ `-traditional' option. (The `configure' script should do that automatically with Emacs 21 and later.) +* Building the Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory. + +The error message might be something like this: + + Converting d:/emacs-21.1/leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit to quail-package... + Invalid ENCODE: value in TIT dictionary + NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code + '0xffffffff' + Stop. + +This can happen if the Leim distribution is unpacked with a program +which converts the `*.tit' files to DOS-style CR-LF text format. The +`*.tit' files in the leim/CXTERM-DIC directory require Unix-style line +endings to compile properly, because Emacs reads them without any code +or EOL conversions. + +The solution is to make sure the program used to unpack Leim does not +change the files' line endings behind your back. The GNU FTP site has +in the `/gnu/emacs/windows' directory a program called `djtarnt.exe' +which can be used to unpack `.tar.gz' and `.zip' archives without +mangling them. + * When using Xaw3d scroll bars without arrows, the very first mouse click in a scroll bar might be ignored by the scroll bar widget. This is probably a bug in Xaw3d; when Xaw3d is compiled with arrows, the