From 62e466d0234a54d342413dcb6bed9fff220fd16c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juanma Barranquero Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:44:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * PROBLEMS (Windows): Add entry about TCC/4NT and App Paths keys. --- etc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ etc/PROBLEMS | 12 ++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index dde209b4129..ce8d8098779 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-01-28 Juanma Barranquero + + * PROBLEMS (Windows): Add entry about TCC/4NT and App Paths keys. + 2009-01-28 Carsten Dominik * refcards/orgcard.tex: New version number. diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 21cf951e221..4f49527c55e 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715. ** Emacs compiled with Gtk+ may loop forever if a display crashes. -This is related to the bug above. A scenario for this is when emacs is run +This is related to the bug above. A scenario for this is when emacs is run as a server, and an X frame is created. If the X server for the frame crashes or exits unexpectedly and an attempt is made to create a new frame on another X display, then a Gtk+ error happens in the emacs @@ -2129,6 +2129,14 @@ to allocate ptys reliably. * Runtime problems specific to MS-Windows +** PATH can contain unexpanded environment variables + +Old releases of TCC (version 9) and 4NT (up to version 8) do not correctly +expand App Paths entries of type REG_EXPAND_SZ. When Emacs is run from TCC +and such an entry exists for emacs.exe, exec-path will contain the +unexpanded entry. This has been fixed in TCC 10. For more information, +see bug#2062. + ** Setting w32-pass-rwindow-to-system and w32-pass-lwindow-to-system to nil does not prevent the Start menu from popping up when the left or right ``Windows'' key is pressed. @@ -2672,7 +2680,7 @@ The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2. ** Bootstrapping Bootstrapping (compiling the .el files) is normally only necessary -with CVS builds, since they the .elc files are pre-compiled in releases. +with CVS builds, since the .elc files are pre-compiled in releases. *** "No rule to make target" with Ubuntu 8.04 make 3.81-3build1 -- 2.39.5