From 6343352f43998ba50bc0980719635a2798e7f414 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:11:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the problem with epop3's redefinition of gethash. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 1d46c40de4d..df8592ca5a4 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -840,6 +840,17 @@ e.g. if you need more CJK coverage, use the current Mule-UCS package. Any files encoded as emacs-mule using oc-unicode won't be read correctly by Emacs 21. +* Using epop3.el package causes Emacs to signal an error. + +The error message might be something like this: + + "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth" + +This happens because epop3 redefines the function gethash, which is a +built-in primitive beginning with Emacs 21.1. We don't have a patch +for epop3 that fixes this, but perhaps a newer version of epop3 +corrects that. + * On systems with shared libraries you might encounter run-time errors from the dynamic linker telling you that it is unable to find some shared libraries, for instance those for Xaw3d or image support. -- 2.39.2