Notes on the PROBLEMS file
I just wanted to point out a couple of items in the PROBLEMS file that
shipped with XEmacs 21.1.2. In the Solaris section, it says:
*** Sed problems on Solaris 2.5
There have been reports of Sun sed truncating very lines in the
Makefile during configuration. The workaround is to use GNU sed or,
even better, think of a better way to generate Makefile, and send us a
patch. :-)
Besides the typo and the grammatical error, I'd like to point out that
this only happens if cpp is not in your path. When we first hit this
problem, our sysadmin truss'd sed to see what it was doing and noticed
that it tried to stat cpp. He fixed up his path and bingo! It worked.
Second, in the Irix section, it says:
*** Motif dialog boxes lose on Irix.
Larry Auton <lda(a)control.att.com> writes:
Beware of not specifying
--with-dialogs=athena
if it builds with the motif dialogs [boom!] you're a dead man.
Last year, just after the release of 20.4, I noted on comp.emacs.xemacs
that I built with the Motif dialogs on both Irix 5.3 and Irix 6.2, and
didn't have any trouble. In response, Olivier Galibert wrote:
No, I have seen the problem on an incompletely patched 6.2
too. Linking with motif on that box makes the x-copy-primary-selection
segfault within the motif routines.
I don't remember *which* patch is needed though. Sorry.
As a matter of fact, I'm running without *any* Motif patches installed
(and was last year as well). We only install SGI recommended patchsets
here, and no Motif patch has ever made it into the recommended set for
Irix 6.2. We do have X server and X library patches, however.
Anyway, since it is a whole year later, the chances of somebody running
an Irix without the relevant patch are steadily decreasing (since it
appears to have been in the recommended set for at least a year). I
suggest this entry be changed to read something more like this:
*** Motif dialog boxes may require Irix patch
If using the Motif dialog boxes causes x-copy-primary-selection to
segfault in the Motif routines, then you must either upgrade your Irix
patches or configure using --with-dialogs=athena.
Regards,
--
Jerry James
Email: jerry(a)cs.ucsb.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~jerry/