3:50 p.m.
Robert Pluim writes:
I know, I'm a dinosaur for disabling scrollbars in my build, but
what
the hey.
I think it's great that you do this. There really ought to be a set
of tests which are run on all 2**n possible configurations
(with/without widgets, with/without scrollbars, etc. AFAIK, this is
not done, except on an ad-hoc basis.
4:28 p.m.
Charles G. Waldman writes:
Robert Pluim writes:
> I know, I'm a dinosaur for disabling scrollbars in my build, but what
> the hey.
I think it's great that you do this. There really ought to be a set
of tests which are run on all 2**n possible configurations
(with/without widgets, with/without scrollbars, etc. AFAIK, this is
not done, except on an ad-hoc basis.
Hmm, didn't Bill Perry say he had a set of scripts that do this? I
don't know how many different combinations he tests, though.
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2:24 p.m.
Robert Pluim writes:
Charles G. Waldman writes:
> Robert Pluim writes:
> > I know, I'm a dinosaur for disabling scrollbars in my build, but what
> > the hey.
>
> I think it's great that you do this. There really ought to be a set
> of tests which are run on all 2**n possible configurations
> (with/without widgets, with/without scrollbars, etc. AFAIK, this is
> not done, except on an ad-hoc basis.
Hmm, didn't Bill Perry say he had a set of scripts that do this? I
don't know how many different combinations he tests, though.
I've just tested the 32 possible combinations of
dialogs/widgets/toolbars/menus/scrollbars on and off (letting
autodetection figure out which kind of each to use) by (ab)using Bill
Perry's scripts. The only ones that fail to compile are of the
"dialogs/nowidgets" variety, which makes sense, all others build
fine. I'm building with Lesstif, if that matters.
Not all of them run, unfortunately. Anything that matches
widgets nomenus noscrollbars
crashes on startup when it tries to instantiate the progress gauge (if
I load my init file), and when it tries to instantiate the buffer tabs
if I run -vanilla.
It's not clear to me what the correct solution here is. Peeking at
the code I suspect it's something to do with the NEED_LUCID and
similar #defines scattered around, but I'm not sure. Is this
something that's even worth fixing? (even I don't disable the menubar
normally ;-)
BTW, here's Installation for one of the crashing xemacs:
uname -a: Linux wibble 2.2.17 #4 Wed Jun 6 13:35:46 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
/u2/rpluim/xemacs-head//configure '--cflags=-O0 -pipe'
'--with-menubars=no' '--with-scrollbars=no'
XEmacs 21.5-b2 "artichoke" configured for `i686-pc-linux'.
Compilation / Installation:
Source code location: /u2/rpluim/xemacs-head
Installation prefix: /usr/local
Operating system description file: `s/linux.h'
Machine description file: `m/intel386.h'
Compiler: gcc -O0 -pipe
Relocating allocator for buffers: no
GNU version of malloc: yes
- Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.
Window System:
Compiling in support for the X window system:
- X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include
- X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib
- Handling WM_COMMAND properly.
Using Motif dialog boxes.
Using Motif native widgets.
TTY:
Compiling in support for ncurses.
Images:
Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin).
Compiling in support for XPM images.
Compiling in support for PNG images.
Compiling in support for JPEG images.
Compiling in support for TIFF images.
Sound:
Compiling in support for sound (native).
Databases:
Compiling in support for Berkeley database.
Compiling in support for LDAP.
Internationalization:
Mail:
Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method.
Other Features:
Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules.
Compiling in support for extra debugging code.
WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
WARNING: Compiling in support for runtime error checking.
WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result.
WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases.
WARNING: ---------------------------------------------------------
Robert
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8:29 p.m.
Robert Pluim <rpluim(a)bigfoot.com> writes:
Robert Pluim writes:
> Charles G. Waldman writes:
> > Robert Pluim writes:
> > > I know, I'm a dinosaur for disabling scrollbars in my build, but
what
> > > the hey.
> >
> > I think it's great that you do this. There really ought to be a set
> > of tests which are run on all 2**n possible configurations
> > (with/without widgets, with/without scrollbars, etc. AFAIK, this is
> > not done, except on an ad-hoc basis.
>
> Hmm, didn't Bill Perry say he had a set of scripts that do this? I
> don't know how many different combinations he tests, though.
I've just tested the 32 possible combinations of
dialogs/widgets/toolbars/menus/scrollbars on and off (letting
autodetection figure out which kind of each to use) by (ab)using Bill
Perry's scripts. The only ones that fail to compile are of the
"dialogs/nowidgets" variety, which makes sense, all others build
fine. I'm building with Lesstif, if that matters.
Yeek - I can just imagine how many permutations we'd run into if I put
those in my stock makefile. The mind wobbles.
-bp
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