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changeset 39463:6381cf3c37bd
Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:11:07 +0000 |
| parents | 7bc2236b1036 |
| children | b1091e5046d0 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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.