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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 3025e55a72d..c174904a183 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ distributions, such as Debian, may already have applied such a patch.) --- lisp/un-define.el 6 Mar 2001 22:41:38 -0000 1.30 +++ lisp/un-define.el 19 Apr 2002 18:34:26 -0000 @@ -610,13 +624,21 @@ by calling post-read-conversion and pre- - + (mapcar (lambda (x) - (mapcar @@ -221,17 +221,17 @@ patch to assert.h should solve this: * If not debugging, assert does nothing. */ ! #define assert(x) ((void)0); - + #else /* debugging enabled */ - + --- 41,47 ---- /* * If not debugging, assert does nothing. */ ! #define assert(x) ((void)0) - + #else /* debugging enabled */ - + * Improving performance with slow X connections @@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ load-path. An example of such an error is: - x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" + x-complement-fontset-spec: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" This can be another symptom of stale *.elc files in your classpath. The following command will print any duplicate Lisp files that are @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ keyboard(5). Changing Alt_L to Meta_L fixes it: % xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L' -% xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_R = Meta_R Alt_R' +% xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_R = Meta_R Alt_R' * Error "conflicting types for `initstate'" compiling with GCC on Irix 6. @@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem. * Emacs crashes on Irix 6.5 on the SGI R10K, when compiled with GCC. - + This seems to be fixed in GCC 2.95. * Emacs crashes in utmpname on Irix 5.3. @@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ the fr.ISO-8859-15 locale (and maybe other related locales). You can fix this by editing the file: /usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso8859-15/Compose - + Near the bottom there is a line that reads: Ctrl<t> <quotedbl> <Y> : "\276" threequarters @@ -1111,8 +1111,8 @@ change this. When the display is set to an Exceed X-server and fonts are specified (either explicitly with the -fn option or implicitly with X resources) then the fonts may appear "too tall". The actual character sizes are -correct but there is too much vertical spacing between rows, which -gives the appearance of "double spacing". +correct but there is too much vertical spacing between rows, which +gives the appearance of "double spacing". To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution" feature (in the font part of the configuration window). @@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ This is not an Emacs bug; it is caused by something in SGI patch The VM mail package, which is not part of Emacs, sometimes does (standard-display-european t) -That should be changed to +That should be changed to (standard-display-european 1 t) * Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'. @@ -1808,8 +1808,8 @@ you install all the latest patches (as of June 1996), the bug is fixed. We suspect the crucial patch is one of these, but we don't know for certain. - 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes) - 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes) + 103093-03: [README] SunOS 5.5: kernel patch (2140557 bytes) + 102832-01: [README] OpenWindows 3.5: Xview Jumbo Patch (4181613 bytes) 103242-04: [README] SunOS 5.5: linker patch (595363 bytes) (One user reports that the bug was fixed by those patches together @@ -1901,7 +1901,7 @@ On AIX, many terminal type definitions are not installed by default. Definitions" to make them defined. * On SunOS, you get linker errors - ld: Undefined symbol + ld: Undefined symbol _get_wmShellWidgetClass _get_applicationShellWidgetClass @@ -2061,7 +2061,7 @@ exist. The first line in the `/etc/hosts' file should look like this Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following lines: - order hosts, bind + order hosts, bind multi on Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be @@ -2290,12 +2290,12 @@ releasing Ctrl/Act while not pressing or holding any other keys. * display-time causes kernel problems on ISC systems. Under Interactive Unix versions 3.0.1 and 4.0 (and probably other -versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT +versions), display-time causes the loss of large numbers of STREVENT cells. Eventually the kernel's supply of these cells is exhausted. -This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other +This makes emacs and the whole system run slow, and can make other processes die, in particular pcnfsd. - -Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have + +Other emacs functions that communicate with remote processes may have the same problem. Display-time seems to be far the worst. The only known fix: Don't run display-time. @@ -2367,7 +2367,7 @@ problem by adding this to your .cshrc file: if ($?EMACS) then if ($EMACS == "t") then - unset edit + unset edit stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z endif endif @@ -2658,7 +2658,7 @@ again to say this: * On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld: - /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment + /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld. @@ -2680,18 +2680,18 @@ Use `smit pty' to reinstall them properly. christos@theory.tn.cornell.edu says: The problem is that in your .cshrc you have something that tries to -execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then -tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places, +execute `tty`. If you are not running the shell on a real tty then +tty will print "not a tty". Csh expects one word in some places, but tty is giving it back 3. The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a single -word: +word: -if (`tty` == "/dev/console") +if (`tty` == "/dev/console") should be changed to: -if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console") +if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console") Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc and into .login. @@ -2711,7 +2711,7 @@ the environment. If the error message says that a symbol such as `f68881_used' or `ffpa_used' or `start_float' is undefined, this probably indicates -that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries, +that you have compiled some libraries, such as the X libraries, with a floating point option other than the default. It's not terribly hard to make this work with small changes in @@ -2737,7 +2737,7 @@ This problem seems to be a matter of configuring the DECserver to use * 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 -version 4.0.x. The only fix was to reboot the machine. +version 4.0.x. The only fix was to reboot the machine. * Programs running under terminal emulator do not recognize `emacs' terminal type. @@ -2767,7 +2767,7 @@ You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode nil nil). However, that has the disadvantage of turning off interrupts, so that you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program by typing C-g. -The easy way to do this is to put +The easy way to do this is to put (setq x-sigio-bug t) |