From 2aa82bcf36e5f047b2b39abab1334976ce0c67ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:42:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix last change. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 32 ++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index bd1b34e16b7..55291c1ef82 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1,6 +1,21 @@ 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 between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released +version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those +dates. 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 does that +automatically.) + +Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of +Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles. + * Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail. Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin @@ -997,7 +1012,7 @@ This bug was reported to Sun as Gtk apps dump core in ximlocal.so.2:IMCheckIMWindow() Bug Reports: 4463537 -Installing Solaris 8 patch 108773-12 for Sparc and 108874-12 for x86 +Installing Solaris 8 patch 108773-12 for Sparc and 108774-12 for x86 reportedly fixes the bug, which appears to be inside the shared library xiiimp.so. @@ -1005,21 +1020,6 @@ 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. - -This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one -of the GCC snapshots between Oct 2000 and Feb 2001, or from a released -version of GCC newer than 2.95.2 which was prepared around those -dates. 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 does that -automatically.) - -Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of -Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefiles. - * 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 -- 2.39.2