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diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 716a1996d33..ca4e17eee43 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +1999-11-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> + + * PROBLEMS: Update Solaris 2.6 and 7 problems. + 1999-11-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * NEWS: Rename messages-locale to system-messages-locale diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 6a01cf7c0e2..a614fc25456 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ the same version of GCC, and telling us whether that fixes the problem. * On Solaris 7, Emacs gets a segmentation fault when starting up using X. This results from Sun patch 107058-01 (SunOS 5.7: Patch for -assembler), if you use GCC (version 2.7 or 2.8, at least). To work -around it, either uninstall the patch, or install the GNU Binutils. +assembler) if you use GCC version 2.7 or later. +To work around it, either install patch 106950-03 or later, +or uninstall patch 107058-01, or install the GNU Binutils. Then recompile Emacs, and it should work. * With X11R6.4, public-patch-3, Emacs crashes at startup. @@ -53,14 +54,6 @@ Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem. return ret; -* On Solaris 2.7, the Compose key does not work *except* when the -system is quite heavily loaded. - -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 -support complains to Sun about the bug, they may release a patch for -Solaris 2.7. If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711. - * Emacs crashes on Irix 6.5 on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC. This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95. @@ -349,7 +342,12 @@ On Solaris 2.6, Emacs is said to work with Motif when Solaris patch 105284-12 is installed, but fail when 105284-15 is installed. 105284-18 might fix it again. -* On Solaris 2.6, the Compose key does not work. +* On 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 +support complains to Sun about the bug, they may release a patch. +If you do this, mention Sun bug #4188711. One workaround is to use a locale that allows non-ASCII characters. For example, before invoking emacs, set the LC_ALL environment @@ -357,11 +355,9 @@ variable to "en_US" (American English). The directory /usr/lib/locale lists the supported locales; any locale other than "C" or "POSIX" should do. -pen@lysator.liu.se says (Feb 1998) that this is a bug in the Solaris -2.6 X libraries, and that the Compose key does work if you link with -the MIT X11 libraries instead. - -Sun has accepted this as a bug; see Sun bug 4188711. +pen@lysator.liu.se says (Feb 1998) that the Compose key does work +if you link with the MIT X11 libraries instead of the Solaris X11 +libraries. * Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name. |