Mercurial > emacs
changeset 56914:ce4c0cb926e3
From Eric S. Raymond: More reorganization to exile old stuff to the
pre-2000 section. I looked up end-of-life dates for a bunch of old
Unixes to check.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 04 Sep 2004 12:25:43 +0000 |
| parents | 9cd521d53335 |
| children | 12240bc21df6 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 336 insertions(+), 318 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Sep 03 22:28:10 2004 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Sat Sep 04 12:25:43 2004 +0000 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ This file describes various problems that have been encountered -in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. Try doing Ctl t +in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. Try doing Ctl-C Ctl-t and browsing through the outline headers. * Emacs startup failures @@ -156,30 +156,6 @@ Patches to raise the stack size limit automatically in `main' (src/emacs.c) on various systems would be greatly appreciated. -** Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on HPUX 9 after you delete a frame. - -We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With -the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem -does not happen. - -** Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame. - -We suspect that this is a similar bug in the X libraries provided by -Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and -makes the problem stop: - -105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02 -105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03 -106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01 -105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01 - -Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06) -suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches: - -106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch -106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes -105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch - ** Error message `Symbol's value as variable is void: x', followed by a segmentation fault and core dump. @@ -1272,15 +1248,6 @@ -query' to see what resources the X server records, and also look at the user's ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-* files. -*** --with-x-toolkit version crashes when used with shared libraries. - -On some systems, including Sunos 4 and DGUX 5.4.2 and perhaps others, -unexec doesn't work properly with the shared library for the X -toolkit. You might be able to work around this by using a nonshared -libXt.a library. The real fix is to upgrade the various versions of -unexec and/or ralloc. We think this has been fixed on Sunos 4 -and Solaris in version 19.29. - *** Emacs running under X Windows does not handle mouse clicks. *** `emacs -geometry 80x20' finds a file named `80x20'. @@ -1794,15 +1761,6 @@ If this happens to you, extend the timeout period. -*** HP/UX: Emacs is slow using X11R5. - -This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it -doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version -because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a, -libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with -those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to -install them and rebuild Emacs. - *** HP/UX: The right Alt key works wrong on German HP keyboards (and perhaps other non-English HP keyboards too). @@ -1849,10 +1807,6 @@ EOF -------------------------------- -*** HP/UX: Large file support is disabled. - -See the comments in src/s/hpux10.h. - *** HP/UX 11.0: Emacs makes HP/UX 11.0 crash. This is a bug in HPUX; HPUX patch PHKL_16260 is said to fix it. @@ -1873,37 +1827,6 @@ This makes your Backspace key send DEL (ASCII 127). -*** AIX: You get this message when running Emacs: - - Could not load program emacs - Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined - Error was: Exec format error - -or this one: - - Could not load program .emacs - Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined - Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined - Error was: Exec format error - -These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was -compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile. - -*** AIX 3.2.4: Releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down. - -Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is -ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can -lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are -treated as control characters. - -You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and -releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys. - -*** AIX 4.2: Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup. - -If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c -without optimization; that should avoid the problem. - *** AIX: If linking fails because libXbsd isn't found, check if you are compiling with the system's `cc' and CFLAGS containing `-O5'. If so, you have hit a compiler bug. Please make sure to re-configure @@ -1940,11 +1863,36 @@ is because the unshared libraries fail to use YP for host name lookup. As a result, the host name you specify may not be recognized. -*** Emacs reports a BadAtom error (from X) running on Solaris 7 or 8. +*** Solaris 2,6: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV on Solaris after you delete a frame. + +We suspect that this is a bug in the X libraries provided by +Sun. There is a report that one of these patches fixes the bug and +makes the problem stop: + +105216-01 105393-01 105518-01 105621-01 105665-01 105615-02 105216-02 +105667-01 105401-08 105615-03 105621-02 105686-02 105736-01 105755-03 +106033-01 105379-01 105786-01 105181-04 105379-03 105786-04 105845-01 +105284-05 105669-02 105837-01 105837-02 105558-01 106125-02 105407-01 + +Another person using a newer system (kernel patch level Generic_105181-06) +suspects that the bug was fixed by one of these more recent patches: + +106040-07 SunOS 5.6: X Input & Output Method patch +106222-01 OpenWindows 3.6: filemgr (ff.core) fixes +105284-12 Motif 1.2.7: sparc Runtime library patch + +*** Solaris 7 or 8: Emacs reports a BadAtom error (from X) This happens when Emacs was built on some other version of Solaris. Rebuild it on Solaris 8. +*** When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down' +commands do not move the arrow in Emacs. + +You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit': + + dbxenv output_short_file_name off + *** On Solaris, CTRL-t is ignored by Emacs when you use the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales). @@ -1962,147 +1910,18 @@ Note the lower case <t>. Changing this line should make C-t work. -*** When using M-x dbx with the SparcWorks debugger, the `up' and `down' -commands do not move the arrow in Emacs. - -You can fix this by adding the following line to `~/.dbxinit': - - dbxenv output_short_file_name off - ** Irix -*** Irix 5.2: unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h. - -The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the -Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset -compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy -workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of -syms.h. - -*** Irix 5.3: "out of virtual swap space". - -This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too -many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more -swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You -can check the current status of the swap space by executing the -command `swap -l'. - -You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a -line like this: - -/usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0 - -where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance -by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of -that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the -new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further -information. - -The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be -swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users -on the network that can log on to the host. - -If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute -the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable -some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM -icons. - -You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin' -FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35 -("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at -ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/. - -*** Irix 5.3: Emacs crashes in utmpname. - -This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3. -It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up. - -*** Irix 6.0: Make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi. - -A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o" -in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run, -find that string, and take out the spaces. - -Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem. - *** Irix 6.5: Emacs crashes on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC. This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95. -*** Trouble using ptys on IRIX, or running out of ptys. +*** Irix: Trouble using ptys, or running out of ptys. The program mkpts (which may be in `/usr/adm' or `/usr/sbin') needs to be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able to allocate ptys reliably. -** SCO Unix and UnixWare - -*** SCO 3.2v4: Unusable default font. - -The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings -that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such -fonts, so it does not work. - -This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is -the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal -emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources -that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these -resources affect Emacs also: - - *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-* - *Background: scoBackground - *Foreground: scoForeground - -The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for -Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents: - - Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 - Emacs*Background: white - Emacs*Foreground: black - -(These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to -suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server -starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop -environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell -as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the -/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs, -but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the -Open Desktop display. - -These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO -machines; you must create the file on each machine individually. - -*** Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems. - -On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled -with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C -version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick -C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with -GCC. - -*** UnixWare 2.1: Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs. - -Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed -virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during -the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That -error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been -exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual -memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs. - -You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh). -But you have to be root to do it. - -According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel: - - # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit - # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard " - # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit - # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard " - # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B - -(He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.) -These changes take effect when you reboot. - * Runtime problems specific to MS-Windows ** Emacs exits with "X protocol error" when run with an X server for MS-Windows. @@ -2153,74 +1972,6 @@ of Windows. This is caused by a deficiency in the underlying system library function. -** Problems running Perl under Emacs on MS-Windows NT/95. - -`perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell. -The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95). - -The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to -"CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting -with the user. - -On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a -pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to -communicate with the subprocess. - -On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the -relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be -redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as -stdin. - -A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON. - -For Perl 4: - - *** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993 - --- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996 - *************** - *** 68,74 **** - $rcfile=".perldb"; - } - else { - ! $console = "con"; - $rcfile="perldb.ini"; - } - - --- 68,74 ---- - $rcfile=".perldb"; - } - else { - ! $console = ""; - $rcfile="perldb.ini"; - } - - - For Perl 5: - *** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995 - --- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996 - *************** - *** 22,28 **** - $rcfile=".perldb"; - } - elsif (-e "con") { - ! $console = "con"; - $rcfile="perldb.ini"; - } - else { - --- 22,28 ---- - $rcfile=".perldb"; - } - elsif (-e "con") { - ! $console = ""; - $rcfile="perldb.ini"; - } - else { - -** On MS-Windows 95, Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs. - -This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95. -You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6. - ** Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on MS-Windows. This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout. If @@ -2287,21 +2038,6 @@ mode (e.g., disable the ``auto-protect'' feature), or even uninstall or disable it entirely. -** On MS-Windows 95/98/ME, subprocesses do not terminate properly. - -This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems -when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited -cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at -http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/. - -** MS-Windows 95/98/ME crashes when Emacs invokes non-existent programs. - -When a program you are trying to run is not found on the PATH, -Windows might respond by crashing or locking up your system. In -particular, this has been reported when trying to compile a Java -program in JDEE when javac.exe is installed, but not on the system -PATH. - ** Pressing the mouse button on MS-Windows does not give a mouse-2 event. This is usually a problem with the mouse driver. Because most Windows @@ -2374,15 +2110,6 @@ Alternatively, modify the generated src/Makefile to link the .a file explicitly, and edit src/config.h to define HAVE_JPEG. -*** AIX: You get this compiler error message: - - Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h - 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found. - -This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d -libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install -X11Dev... with smit. - ** Compilation *** Building Emacs over NFS fails with ``Text file busy''. @@ -2739,10 +2466,6 @@ the file, and then reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. The dumping process should now succeed. -*** HPUX 10.20: Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine. - -This seems to be due to a GCC bug; it is fixed in GCC 2.8.1. - ** Installation *** Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'. @@ -2798,6 +2521,50 @@ ** Ancient operating systems +AIX 4.2 was end-of-lifed on Dec 31st, 1999. + +*** AIX: You get this compiler error message: + + Processing include file ./XMenuInt.h + 1501-106: (S) Include file X11/Xlib.h not found. + +This means your system was installed with only the X11 runtime i.d +libraries. You have to find your sipo (bootable tape) and install +X11Dev... with smit. + +(This report must be ancient. Bootable tapes are long dead.) + +*** AIX 3.2.4: Releasing Ctrl/Act key has no effect, if Shift is down. + +Due to a feature of AIX, pressing or releasing the Ctrl/Act key is +ignored when the Shift, Alt or AltGr keys are held down. This can +lead to the keyboard being "control-locked"--ordinary letters are +treated as control characters. + +You can get out of this "control-locked" state by pressing and +releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys. + +*** AIX 3.2.5: You get this message when running Emacs: + + Could not load program emacs + Symbol smtcheckinit in csh is undefined + Error was: Exec format error + +or this one: + + Could not load program .emacs + Symbol _system_con in csh is undefined + Symbol _fp_trapsta in csh is undefined + Error was: Exec format error + +These can happen when you try to run on AIX 3.2.5 a program that was +compiled with 3.2.4. The fix is to recompile. + +*** AIX 4.2: Emacs gets a segmentation fault at startup. + +If you are using IBM's xlc compiler, compile emacs.c +without optimization; that should avoid the problem. + *** ISC Unix **** ISC: display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems. @@ -2815,6 +2582,13 @@ *** SunOS +SunOS 4.1.4 stopped shipping on Sep 30 1998. + +**** SunOS: You get linker errors + ld: Undefined symbol + _get_wmShellWidgetClass + _get_applicationShellWidgetClass + **** Sun 4.0.x: M-x shell persistently reports "Process shell exited abnormally with code 1". This happened on Suns as a result of what is said to be a bug in Sunos @@ -2847,13 +2621,6 @@ IDA sendmail on vixen.cso.uiuc.edu in /pub: sendmail-5.67b+IDA-1.5.tar.gz -**** Sunos 5.3: Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies. - -A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs -exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only -applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses -communicating through pipes. - **** Sunos 4: You get the error ld: Undefined symbol __lib_version. This is the result of using cc or gcc with the shared library meant @@ -2886,14 +2653,16 @@ Someone reported that recompiling with GCC 2.7.0 fixed this problem. -**** SunOS: You get linker errors - ld: Undefined symbol - _get_wmShellWidgetClass - _get_applicationShellWidgetClass - The fix to this is to install patch 100573 for OpenWindows 3.0 or link libXmu statically. +**** Sunos 5.3: Subprocesses remain, hanging but not zombies. + +A bug in Sunos 5.3 causes Emacs subprocesses to remain after Emacs +exits. Sun patch # 101415-02 is part of the fix for this, but it only +applies to ptys, and doesn't fix the problem with subprocesses +communicating through pipes. + *** Apollo Domain **** Shell mode ignores interrupts on Apollo Domain. @@ -3074,7 +2843,7 @@ 105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed. 105284-18 might fix it again. -*** Solaris 2.6 and 7: the Compose key does not work. +**** Solaris 2.6 and 7: the Compose key does not work. This is a bug in Motif in Solaris. Supposedly it has been fixed for the next major release of Solaris. However, if someone with Sun @@ -3091,6 +2860,30 @@ if you link with the MIT X11 libraries instead of the Solaris X11 libraries. +*** HP/UX versions before 11.0 + +HP/UX 9 was end-of-lifed in December 1998. +HP/UX 10 was end-of-lifed in May 1999. + +**** HP/UX 9: Emacs crashes with SIGBUS or SIGSEGV after you delete a frame. + +We think this is due to a bug in the X libraries provided by HP. With +the alternative X libraries in /usr/contrib/mitX11R5/lib, the problem +does not happen. + +*** HP/UX 10: Large file support is disabled. + +See the comments in src/s/hpux10.h. + +*** HP/UX: Emacs is slow using X11R5. + +This happens if you use the MIT versions of the X libraries--it +doesn't run as fast as HP's version. People sometimes use the version +because they see the HP version doesn't have the libraries libXaw.a, +libXmu.a, libXext.a and others. HP/UX normally doesn't come with +those libraries installed. To get good performance, you need to +install them and rebuild Emacs. + *** Ultrix and Digital Unix **** Ultrix 4.2: `make install' fails on install-doc with `Error 141'. @@ -3145,6 +2938,133 @@ This makes Emacs use memory less efficiently, but seems to work around the kernel bug. +*** Irix 5 and earlier + +Exactly when Irix-5 end-of-lifed is obscure. But since Irix 6.0 +shipped in 1994, it has been some years. + +**** Irix 5.2: unexelfsgi.c can't find cmplrs/stsupport.h. + +The file cmplrs/stsupport.h was included in the wrong file set in the +Irix 5.2 distribution. You can find it in the optional fileset +compiler_dev, or copy it from some other Irix 5.2 system. A kludgy +workaround is to change unexelfsgi.c to include sym.h instead of +syms.h. + +**** Irix 5.3: "out of virtual swap space". + +This message occurs when the system runs out of swap space due to too +many large programs running. The solution is either to provide more +swap space or to reduce the number of large programs being run. You +can check the current status of the swap space by executing the +command `swap -l'. + +You can increase swap space by changing the file /etc/fstab. Adding a +line like this: + +/usr/swap/swap.more swap swap pri=3 0 0 + +where /usr/swap/swap.more is a file previously created (for instance +by using /etc/mkfile), will increase the swap space by the size of +that file. Execute `swap -m' or reboot the machine to activate the +new swap area. See the manpages for `swap' and `fstab' for further +information. + +The objectserver daemon can use up lots of memory because it can be +swamped with NIS information. It collects information about all users +on the network that can log on to the host. + +If you want to disable the objectserver completely, you can execute +the command `chkconfig objectserver off' and reboot. That may disable +some of the window system functionality, such as responding CDROM +icons. + +You can also remove NIS support from the objectserver. The SGI `admin' +FAQ has a detailed description on how to do that; see question 35 +("Why isn't the objectserver working?"). The admin FAQ can be found at +ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/. + +**** Irix 5.3: Emacs crashes in utmpname. + +This problem is fixed in Patch 3175 for Irix 5.3. +It is also fixed in Irix versions 6.2 and up. + +**** Irix 6.0: Make tries (and fails) to build a program named unexelfsgi. + +A compiler bug inserts spaces into the string "unexelfsgi . o" +in src/Makefile. Edit src/Makefile, after configure is run, +find that string, and take out the spaces. + +Compiler fixes in Irix 6.0.1 should eliminate this problem. + +*** SCO Unix and UnixWare + +**** SCO 3.2v4: Unusable default font. + +The Open Desktop environment comes with default X resource settings +that tell Emacs to use a variable-width font. Emacs cannot use such +fonts, so it does not work. + +This is caused by the file /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ScoTerm, which is +the application-specific resource file for the `scoterm' terminal +emulator program. It contains several extremely general X resources +that affect other programs besides `scoterm'. In particular, these +resources affect Emacs also: + + *Font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*--12-*-p-* + *Background: scoBackground + *Foreground: scoForeground + +The best solution is to create an application-specific resource file for +Emacs, /usr/lib/X11/sco/startup/Emacs, with the following contents: + + Emacs*Font: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 + Emacs*Background: white + Emacs*Foreground: black + +(These settings mimic the Emacs defaults, but you can change them to +suit your needs.) This resource file is only read when the X server +starts up, so you should restart it by logging out of the Open Desktop +environment or by running `scologin stop; scologin start` from the shell +as root. Alternatively, you can put these settings in the +/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs resource file and simply restart Emacs, +but then they will not affect remote invocations of Emacs that use the +Open Desktop display. + +These resource files are not normally shared across a network of SCO +machines; you must create the file on each machine individually. + +**** SCO 4.2.0: Regular expressions matching bugs on SCO systems. + +On SCO, there are problems in regexp matching when Emacs is compiled +with the system compiler. The compiler version is "Microsoft C +version 6", SCO 4.2.0h Dev Sys Maintenance Supplement 01/06/93; Quick +C Compiler Version 1.00.46 (Beta). The solution is to compile with +GCC. + +**** UnixWare 2.1: Error 12 (virtual memory exceeded) when dumping Emacs. + +Paul Abrahams (abrahams@acm.org) reports that with the installed +virtual memory settings for UnixWare 2.1.2, an Error 12 occurs during +the "make" that builds Emacs, when running temacs to dump emacs. That +error indicates that the per-process virtual memory limit has been +exceeded. The default limit is probably 32MB. Raising the virtual +memory limit to 40MB should make it possible to finish building Emacs. + +You can do this with the command `ulimit' (sh) or `limit' (csh). +But you have to be root to do it. + +According to Martin Sohnius, you can also retune this in the kernel: + + # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SDATLIM 33554432 ## soft data size limit + # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HDATLIM 33554432 ## hard " + # /etc/conf/bin/idtune SVMMSIZE unlimited ## soft process size limit + # /etc/conf/bin/idtune HVMMSIZE unlimited ## hard " + # /etc/conf/bin/idbuild -B + +(He recommends you not change the stack limit, though.) +These changes take effect when you reboot. + *** Linux 1.x **** Linux 1.0-1.04: Typing C-c C-c in Shell mode kills your X server. @@ -3159,6 +3079,91 @@ This is due to a kernel bug which seems to be fixed in Linux version 1.3.75. +** Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and ME + +*** MS-Windows NT/95: Problems running Perl under Emacs + +`perl -de 0' just hangs when executed in an Emacs subshell. +The fault lies with Perl (indirectly with Windows NT/95). + +The problem is that the Perl debugger explicitly opens a connection to +"CON", which is the DOS/NT equivalent of "/dev/tty", for interacting +with the user. + +On Unix, this is okay, because Emacs (or the shell?) creates a +pseudo-tty so that /dev/tty is really the pipe Emacs is using to +communicate with the subprocess. + +On NT, this fails because CON always refers to the handle for the +relevant console (approximately equivalent to a tty), and cannot be +redirected to refer to the pipe Emacs assigned to the subprocess as +stdin. + +A workaround is to modify perldb.pl to use STDIN/STDOUT instead of CON. + +For Perl 4: + + *** PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL.orig Wed May 26 08:24:18 1993 + --- PERL/LIB/PERLDB.PL Mon Jul 01 15:28:16 1996 + *************** + *** 68,74 **** + $rcfile=".perldb"; + } + else { + ! $console = "con"; + $rcfile="perldb.ini"; + } + + --- 68,74 ---- + $rcfile=".perldb"; + } + else { + ! $console = ""; + $rcfile="perldb.ini"; + } + + + For Perl 5: + *** perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl.orig Sun Jun 04 21:13:40 1995 + --- perl/5.001/lib/perl5db.pl Mon Jul 01 17:00:08 1996 + *************** + *** 22,28 **** + $rcfile=".perldb"; + } + elsif (-e "con") { + ! $console = "con"; + $rcfile="perldb.ini"; + } + else { + --- 22,28 ---- + $rcfile=".perldb"; + } + elsif (-e "con") { + ! $console = ""; + $rcfile="perldb.ini"; + } + else { + +*** MS-Windows 95: Alt-f6 does not get through to Emacs. + +This character seems to be trapped by the kernel in Windows 95. +You can enter M-f6 by typing ESC f6. + +*** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: subprocesses do not terminate properly. + +This is a limitation of the Operating System, and can cause problems +when shutting down Windows. Ensure that all subprocesses are exited +cleanly before exiting Emacs. For more details, see the FAQ at +http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/. + +*** MS-Windows 95/98/ME: crashes when Emacs invokes non-existent programs. + +When a program you are trying to run is not found on the PATH, +Windows might respond by crashing or locking up your system. In +particular, this has been reported when trying to compile a Java +program in JDEE when javac.exe is installed, but not on the system +PATH. + ** MS-DOS *** When compiling with DJGPP on MS-Windows NT, "config msdos" fails. @@ -3374,6 +3379,19 @@ lib_version.o, try extracting it from X11/usr/lib/X11/libvim.a in X11R4, then use it in the link. +** SunOS4, DGUX 5.4.2: --with-x-toolkit version crashes when used with shared libraries. + +On some systems, including Sunos 4 and DGUX 5.4.2 and perhaps others, +unexec doesn't work properly with the shared library for the X +toolkit. You might be able to work around this by using a nonshared +libXt.a library. The real fix is to upgrade the various versions of +unexec and/or ralloc. We think this has been fixed on Sunos 4 +and Solaris in version 19.29. + +** HPUX 10.20: Emacs crashes during dumping on the HPPA machine. + +This seems to be due to a GCC bug; it is fixed in GCC 2.8.1. + ** VMS: Compilation errors on VMS. You will get warnings when compiling on VMS because there are