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changeset 35139:cb8e77c36175
Mention possible problems with new versions of GNU cpp and "..".
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:26:39 +0000 |
| parents | fa1eccf5fbf4 |
| children | 187e006e803a |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Mon Jan 08 17:24:44 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Mon Jan 08 17:26:39 2001 +0000 @@ -1,6 +1,18 @@ This file describes various problems that have been encountered in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. +* Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory. + +This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one +of the GCC snapshots around Oct 2000 and later, or from a released +version of GCC newer than 2.95.2. The preprocessor in those versions +expands ".." into ". .", which breaks relative file names that +reference the parent directory. + +The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the +`-traditional' option. (The `configure' script should do that +automatically with Emacs 21 and later.) + * 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