Mercurial > emacs
changeset 42228:b968543600c1
Document problems with AIX's /bin/c89 compiler and with old versions
of X-Symbol.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:25:47 +0000 |
| parents | e109b1e2c9b2 |
| children | 0340f1accfdf |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Dec 21 12:18:37 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Dec 21 12:25:47 2001 +0000 @@ -554,6 +554,12 @@ so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure Emacs so that it isn't compiled with `-O5'. +* Compiling on AIX 4.3.x or 4.4 fails. +This could happen if you use /bin/c89 as youir compiler, instead of +the default `cc'. /bin/c89 treats certain warnings, such as benign +redefinitions of macros, as errors, and fails the build. A solution +is to use the default compiler `cc'. + * The PSGML package uses the obsolete variables `before-change-function' and `after-change-function', which are no longer used by Emacs. These changes to PSGML 1.2.2 fix that. @@ -771,6 +777,14 @@ for epop3 that fixes this, but perhaps a newer version of epop3 corrects that. +* ps-print commands fail to find prologue files ps-prin*.ps. + +This can happen if you use an old version of X-Symbol package: it +defines compatibility functions which trick ps-print into thinking it +runs in XEmacs, and look for the prologue files in a wrong directory. + +The solution is to upgrade X-Symbol to a later version. + * 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.