From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:36:21 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention core dumps inside XIM on Solaris 8. X-Git-Tag: emacs-21.1~149 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=78ce82adcebc46bc5b6a9597dd62f1374dbb2624;p=emacs.git Mention core dumps inside XIM on Solaris 8. --- diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 5c8c8fbfdd7..798bc6430bb 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -3,17 +3,22 @@ in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. * Emacs dumps core on Solaris in function IMCheckWindow. +This was reported to happen when Emacs runs with more than one frame, +and one of them is closed, either with "C-x 5 0" or from the window +manager. + This bug was reported to Sun as Gtk apps dump core in ximlocal.so.2:IMCheckIMWindow() Bug Reports: 4463537 -The bug is said to be "Integrated in Releases: s81_40" but there is no -Patch ID listed. +Installing Solaris 8 patch 108773-12 for Sparc and 108874-12 for x86 +reportedly fixes the bug, which appears to be inside the shared +library xiiimp.so. -As far as Emacs is concerned, you can configure it with -`--with-xim=no' to prevent the core dump, but will loose X input -method support, of course. +Alternatively, you can configure Emacs with `--with-xim=no' to prevent +the core dump, but will loose X input method support, of course. (You +can use Emacs's own input methods instead, if you install Leim.) * Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory.