Re: Cleaning up troubleshooting and other sections in FAQ; need input

Ben> After answering various faq-like questions on xemacs-beta I Ben> decided to redo the troubleshooting section of the FAQ so it Ben> really has everything people should know. Famous last words! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I think "nuke" below should actually mean "Move to an appendix labelled 'Probably Obsolete FAQs' or something like that." But the guy who does the work makes the decision. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.1.21: Movemail on Linux does not work Ben> Movemail on Linux defaults to using ＠code{.lock} file Ben> locking. If this is not appropriate for your system, edit Ben> src/s/linux.h and uncomment the line that reads: Remind me to follow up on this. This should NOT be in s&m files, and it could still matter. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.0.8: can't resolve symbol _h_errno Ben> You are using the Linux/ELF distribution of XEmacs 19.14, and Ben> your ELF libraries are out of date. Nuke this. Anybody still using HJL libc knows what they are doing. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.0.10: After I run configure I find a Ben> core dump, is something wrong? Ben> Not necessarily. If you have GNU sed 3.0 you should Ben> downgrade it to 2.05. From the ＠file{README} at Ben> prep.ai.mit.edu: Ben> ＠quotation sed 3.0 has been withdrawn from distribution. It Ben> has major revisions, which mostly seem to be improvements; Ben> but it turns out to have bugs too which cause trouble in some Ben> common cases. Ben> Tom Lord won't be able to work fixing the bugs until May. So Ben> in the mean time, we've decided to withdraw sed 3.0 from Ben> distribution and make version 2.05 once again the recommended Ben> version. ＠end quotation Ben> It has also been observed that the vfork test on Solaris will Ben> leave a core dump. Reduce this to "sed 3.0 and the vfork test on ancient versions of Solaris were known to do this. If those apply to you, upgrade sed or ignore the core file. If not, check for other problems." Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.0.11: XEmacs doesn't resolve hostnames. Ben> This is the result of a long-standing problem with SunOS and Ben> the fact that stock SunOS systems do not ship with DNS Ben> resolver code in libc. Nuke it. Anybody who is still using SunOS 4.1.3 knows what they are doing. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.1.11: Translation Table Syntax messages Ben> at Startup Nuke it. I don't even know if we really support X11R5 any more. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.1.6: XEmacs cannot connect to my X Ben> Terminal! Ben> Help! I can not get XEmacs to display on my Envizex Ben> X-terminal! Ben> Try setting the ＠code{DISPLAY} variable using the numeric IP Ben> address of the host you are running XEmacs from. Leave it. This one will come back around again as IPv6 starts to be deployed. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.1.7: XEmacs just locked up my Linux X server! Nuke it. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.1.8: HP Alt key as Meta. Ben> How can I make XEmacs recognize the Alt key of my HP Ben> workstation as a Meta key? XModMap questions should be collected somewhere, probably in xemacs.texi itself. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.1.13: HP/UX 10.10 and ＠code{create_process} failure. Pass to darrylo. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.1.18: XEmacs does not follow the local Ben> timezone. Ben> When using one of the prebuilt binaries Nuke it (this one with extreme prejudice). We haven't done prebuilt binaries for anything since 19.14 or so; people will think we mean Red Hat and Cygwin. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.1.22: XEmacs won't start without network. Nuke it. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q3.7.5: Why does cut-and-paste not work Ben> between XEmacs and a cmdtool? Nuke it. Ben> Is the following still relevant? If so, is it relevant Ben> outside of HP/UX? Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q2.1.10: Warnings from incorrect key modifiers. Ben> Yes, this is still relevant. See above for my suggestion. Ben> How about the following question regardling TM? TM was once Ben> the way to get MIME support for GNUS, VM, etc. but I gather Ben> they all do this by default now. And maybe there's a newer Ben> version of TM? Nuke stuff about TM, except maybe to note that it is obsolete and unsupported. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q4.3.5: Where do I find pstogif (required by tm)? Move to obsolete. Ben> ＠unnumberedsubsec Q4.7.1: What is AUC TeX? Where do you get it? Note that AUCTeX is now spelled without the space. Replace with "AUCTeX is a complex and sophisticated editing package dedicated to TeX and related text formatting languages, including LaTeX and Texinfo. It provides support for running TeX on a file or part of a file, include files, and of course shortcuts for entering common TeX macros, LaTeX environments, etc, and for fontlock. AUCTeX is a standard package provided by XEmacs. You can get it as usual through the M-x list-packages interface. It is also included in the (non-Mule) SUMO package. The AUCTeX XEmacs package is maintained by Uwe Brauer <GET MAIL ADDRESS>. AUCTeX is extremely complicated, and its developers primarily use GNU Emacs. Not all features of the bleeding edge version of AUCTeX are immediately ported to XEmacs; if you need these, you may be better off getting the most recent versions from the GNU AUCTeX project on savannah.gnu.org." You can add references to Per and Karsten and David Kastrup, to taste. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.