January 2001 - XEmacs-Beta - XEmacs Mailing List Archives

Oscar Figueiredo

I committed EUDC 1.31 to CVS a few minutes ago. Here is the corresponding excerpt from the NEWS file: * Release 1.31 ------------ ** You can now send mail directly from query result buffers ** Multi-server queries are now available from query forms as well The variable `eudc-multi-query-policy' indicates how multi-server queries are handled ** Miscellaneous cleanup Note to the package maintainer: I did *not* bump the package version number in the Makefile. Oscar -- Oscar Figueiredo | CPE Lyon - LISA | 43 Bd du 11 novembre Tel: +33 (0)4 72 43 15 21 | BP2077 Fax: +33 (0)4 72 43 15 91 | 69616 Villeurbanne Cedex - France

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Re: Release announcement: PXP, a utility to submit to xemacs-patches 24 years, 3 months

Adrian Aichner

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes: I am refused connection to both packages! That site seems rather private. Stephen> Described in Stephen> http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/200101/msg00416.html Stephen> Get 'em while they're hot. Binary package (installs in lisp/pxp): Stephen> http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Tools/XEmacs/pxp-0.80-pkg.tar.gz Stephen> Source package (installs in local/pxp): Stephen> http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Tools/XEmacs/pxp-0.80-src.tar.gz Stephen> Current versions of the code and the package are synched at 0.80, but Stephen> they will probably decouple in the future if the package is added to Stephen> libs/xemacs-devel as I will propose. >>>>> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <Adrian.Aichner(a)t-online.de> writes: APA> This works on Windows 2000 too now. Stephen> I didn't do everything exactly as you have suggested, so this may be Stephen> "fixed" again. :-P Let me know.... APA> ChangeLogs should be searched like patch-to-change-log does APA> it (using find-change-log). Stephen> I don't know about this. `find-change-log' has certain side effects Stephen> and makes some assumptions about where cwd is. I'm not sure it's Stephen> appropriate. But it's a good idea and it's on the to-do list. Stephen> add-log undoubtedly has a bunch of utilities that could be useful Stephen> here. APA> I can't get it to produce -U 0 diffs for ChangeLog files and APA> -u diffs for other files. Stephen> Dunno why that would be. So I brute-forced it. flet a function Stephen> `cvs-diff'. Call it once for the list of ChangeLogs and once for the Stephen> list of files. See if that helps. APA> Don't know why this is so, not even the cvs -f switch helped. Stephen> OK, I've defvar'ed a cvs-opts variable, and also a null-device Stephen> variable (I don't have grep-null-device). The defvar checks for Stephen> (boundp grep-null-device). I am not going to add a require for one Stephen> silly variable. Stephen> * sjt-prepare-xemacs-patch.el (sjt/prepare-xemacs-patch): Fix Stephen> infinite loop bug in event of missing ChangeLog entries. Stephen> I fixed this by testing the result of re-search-forward, not eobp. APA> Don't know where you want to put it, I just have it in APA> xemacsweb because I had to save it somewhere. Stephen> For now it lives in xemacs-packages/local/pxp, with source and binary Stephen> kits at the URLs above. Once I get a little more feedback, I'll ask Stephen> Steve to add it to libs/xemacs-devel. Stephen> Sorry about the doc-string goofs; I actually fixed them in my Stephen> workspace while I was writing the mail. But vm doesn't colorize Elisp Stephen> properly ;-) Stephen> -- Stephen> University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Stephen> Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 Stephen> _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ Stephen> What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules." -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

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Failure to checkout xemacs-packages on Windows 2000 24 years, 3 months

Adrian Aichner

I tried doing this from home via DSL, using ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11 (client/server) Copyright (c) 1989-2000 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn, Jeff Polk, and other authors CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License, a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit. Specify the --help option for further information about CVS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- as found in Cygwin tools as of a few days ago. What is this? Best regards, Adrian cd c:\Hacking\XEmacs\ cvs -f -z3 -d :pserver:xemacs＠cvs.xemacs.org:/usr/CVSroot checkout xemacs-packages Compilation started at Sat Jan 20 00:11:43 2001 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) U xemacs-packages/ChangeLog U xemacs-packages/package-compile.el U xemacs-packages/XEmacs.rules U xemacs-packages/Makefile U xemacs-packages/.cvsignore U xemacs-packages/hack-package-index.el U xemacs-packages/comm/Makefile U xemacs-packages/games/Makefile U xemacs-packages/libs/Makefile U xemacs-packages/os/Makefile <682 lines deleted by Adrian> U xemacs-packages/comm/tm/tm-parse.el U xemacs-packages/comm/tm/tm-partial.el U xemacs-packages/comm/tm/tm-pgp.el U xemacs-packages/comm/tm/tm-play.el U xemacs-packages/comm/tm/tm-rmail.el U xemacs-packages/comm/tm/tm-setup.el U xemacs-packages/comm/tm/tm-tar.el U xemacs-packages/comm/tm/tm-text.el U xemacs-packages/comm/tm/tm-view.el U xemacs-packages/comm/tm/tm-vm.el cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `he dambdam-vm)''' r-le nal'bbdbpoi)))'''nr-le nal' cpbbdb)))'''nd "u)' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response ` cpbbdb/stroific - c So1///' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `u=rw,g=oire (wmw-conimarg)' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response ` n of the GNU Genenstrsr))' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response ` t)fva' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response ` (car))n mimapoir cpoinryluimrrtic c potive)' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `w-name (fprevew ngs t' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `de-m follow-content )' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `w-name (fprevew ngs t' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `(f (sedi.epftcpbbdbnashowmw-conte-bbdbn-oineashowmw-conte ) (senhschbbdbnoific - c So1oire (wmw-coni) to ncbbdbnstroific - c So1oire (wmw-conim g)' from cvs server <many lines deleted by Adrian> cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `＠pr' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `iti bex vr' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `＠bye' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `Mod-t ( 14 Ja ' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `98 6:27:58p-0000 tT +uificed tT ' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response ` ' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `( U tT fm-vm'xeopus-p) ser-/memm/tm/' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response ` ' from cvs server cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `i/em- n.sgml' from cvs server cvs [checkout aborted]: bad entries line `i/' from server Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Sat Jan 20 00:18:03 -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

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Re: Pre-Release Packages. 24 years, 3 months

Adrian Aichner

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes: >>>>> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <Adrian.Aichner(a)t-online.de> writes: APA> That rings a bell. It's very faint though. Does anyone on APA> xemacs-beta remember [the long file-names] issue? Stephen> Yes. Search the archives; Sandy Wambold gave a pretty complete Stephen> dissertation. (Maybe it was on xemacs-review? :-( ) Stephen> Sorry I don't remember the full discussion. Stephen> I think the problem there was only with the extremely Stephen> deeply nested JDE stuff; it shouldn't happen with Stephen> ada-mode. You need pathnames of more than about 100 Stephen> characters. I don't understand why this hasn't bitten me during my last few package updates over the months. Have you changed anything in your process regarding the creation of packages? Have you installed different versions of gzip and tar? For now I was able to fix the problem by using '(package-admin-install-function (quote package-admin-install-function-mswindows) t) instead of '(package-admin-install-function (quote package-admin-default-install-function) t) I was able to update all of the packages I use, including gnus. I have steered clear of a bbdb upgrade and am no longer using tm. dired is still broken on Windows after all these years, so I use my own version with local fixes and can't test your experimental version. Here is what I have installed now: Latest Installed Package name Vers. Vers. Description =============================================================================== * Sun 1.13 1.12 Support for Sparcworks. ada 1.10 1.10 Ada language support. apel 1.20 1.20 A Portable Emacs Library. Used by XEmacs MIME support. * auctex 1.24 1.22 Basic TeX/LaTeX support. * bbdb 1.12 1.10 The Big Brother Data Base c-support 1.16 1.16 Basic single-file add-ons for editing C code. calc 1.14 1.14 Emacs calculator calendar 1.16 1.16 Calendar and diary support. cc-mode 1.23 1.23 C, C++ and Java language support. cookie 1.13 1.13 Spook and Yow (Zippy quotes). crisp 1.12 1.12 Crisp/Brief emulation. debug 1.14 1.14 GUD, gdb, dbx debugging support. * dired 1.09 1.08 Manage file systems. edebug 1.13 1.13 An Emacs Lisp debugger. - edict 1.12 ----- MULE: Lisp Interface to EDICT, Kanji Dictionary ediff 1.28 1.28 Interface over GNU patch. edit-utils 1.55 1.55 Miscellaneous editor extensions, you probably need this. edt 1.11 1.11 DEC EDIT/EDT emulation. efs 1.22 1.22 Treat files on remote systems the same as local files. - egg-its 1.25 ----- MULE: Wnn (4.2 and 6) support. SJ3 support. eicq 1.03 1.03 ICQ Client developed and tested on Linux x86; only supported on that platform elib 1.08 1.08 Portable Emacs Lisp utilities library. emerge 1.09 1.09 Another interface over GNU patch. - eshell 1.01 ----- Command shell implemented entirely in Emacs Lisp eterm 1.13 1.13 Terminal emulation. eudc 1.33 1.33 Emacs Unified Directory Client (LDAP, PH). footnote 1.13 1.13 Footnoting in mail message editing modes. forms 1.13 1.13 Forms editing support (obsolete, use Widget instead). frame-icon 1.09 1.09 Set up mode-specific icons for each frame under XEmacs fsf-compat 1.08 1.08 FSF Emacs compatibility files. games 1.13 1.13 Tetris, Sokoban, and Snake. gnats 1.12 1.12 XEmacs bug reports. gnus 1.53 1.53 The Gnus Newsreader and Mailreader. hm--html-menus 1.16 1.16 HTML editing. idlwave 1.23 1.23 Editing and Shell mode for the Interactive Data Language igrep 1.08 1.08 Enhanced front-end for Grep. ilisp 1.14 1.14 Front-end for Inferior Lisp. ispell 1.22 1.22 Spell-checking with GNU ispell. jde 1.24 1.24 Java language and development support. - leim 1.17 ----- MULE: Quail. All non-English and non-Japanese language support. - locale 1.18 ----- MULE: Localized menubars and localized splash screens. - lookup 1.07 ----- MULE: Dictionary support mail-lib 1.35 1.35 Fundamental lisp files for providing email support. mailcrypt 2.07 2.07 Support for messaging encryption with PGP. mew 1.13 1.13 Messaging in an Emacs World. mh-e 1.13 1.13 Front end support for MH. mine 1.14 1.14 Minehunt Game. misc-games 1.15 1.15 Other amusements and diversions. - mule-base 1.37 ----- MULE: Basic Mule support, required for building with Mule. net-utils 1.15 1.15 Miscellaneous Networking Utilities. os-utils 1.25 1.25 Miscellaneous O/S utilities. pc 1.19 1.19 PC style interface emulation. pcl-cvs 1.51 1.51 CVS frontend. - pcomplete 1.01 ----- Provides programmatic completion. prog-modes 1.32 1.32 Support for various programming languages. ps-print-nomule 1.05 1.05 Old, but no-Mule safe ps-print psgml 1.21 1.21 Validated HTML/SGML editing. reftex 1.22 1.22 Emacs support for LaTeX cross-references, citations.. rmail 1.12 1.12 An obsolete Emacs mailer. scheme 1.11 1.11 Front-end support for Inferior Scheme. semantic 1.04 1.04 Semantic bovinator. sgml 1.08 1.08 SGML/Linuxdoc-SGML editing. sh-script 1.13 1.13 Support for editing shell scripts. - skk 1.18 ----- MULE: Japanese Language Input Method. slider 1.13 1.13 User interface tool. sounds-au 1.10 1.10 XEmacs Sun sound files. sounds-wav 1.10 1.10 XEmacs Microsoft sound files. speedbar 1.18 1.18 Provides a separate frame with convenient references. strokes 1.08 1.08 Mouse enhancement utility. supercite 1.17 1.17 An Emacs citation tool for News & Mail messages. texinfo 1.20 1.20 XEmacs TeXinfo support. text-modes 1.29 1.29 Miscellaneous support for editing text files. textools 1.12 1.12 Miscellaneous TeX support. time 1.11 1.11 Display time & date on the modeline. - tm 1.26 ----- Emacs MIME support. Not needed for gnus >= 5.8.0 tooltalk 1.13 1.13 Support for building with Tooltalk. tpu 1.12 1.12 DEC EDIT/TPU support. vc 1.25 1.25 Version Control for Free systems. - vc-cc 1.15 ----- Version Control for ClearCase (UnFree) systems. vhdl 1.12 1.12 Support for VHDL. view-process 1.11 1.11 A Unix process browsing tool. viper 1.23 1.23 VI emulation support. vm 1.26 1.26 An Emacs mailer. w3 1.18 1.18 A Web browser. xemacs-base 1.48 1.48 Fundamental XEmacs support, you almost certainly need this. xemacs-devel 1.31 1.31 Emacs Lisp developer support. zenirc 1.09 1.09 ZENIRC IRC Client. =============================================================================== Symbols in the leftmost column: + The package is marked for installation. - The package has not been installed. D The package has been marked for deletion. * The currently installed package is old, and a newer version is available. Useful keys: `return' to select/unselect the current package for installation. `d' to select/unselect the current package for removal. `r' to add any packages required by those selected. `x' to install/delete selected packages. `i' to display additional information about the package in the modeline. `g' to refresh the package list. `v' to toggle between a verbose and non-verbose display. `q' to kill this buffer. Best regards, Adrian Stephen> -- Stephen> University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Stephen> Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 Stephen> _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ Stephen> What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules." -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

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Re: Problems building packages 24 years, 3 months

Falk Hueffner

Norbert Koch <nk(a)LF.net> writes: > diff -u -r1.2 udp2tcp.cc > --- udp2tcp.cc 2000/10/23 15:48:59 1.2 > +++ udp2tcp.cc 2001/01/21 13:45:19 > ＠＠ -334,7 +334,7 ＠＠ > printf("accepting....\n"); > size_t sin_size = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in); > tcp_new_sock = accept(tcp_sock, (struct sockaddr *)&tcp_remote_addr, > - &sin_size); > + (int *)&sin_size); > > sock_error_exit(tcp_new_sock == -1, "accept"); This should rather be socklen_t. A configure check should define it to int if socklen_t is not available. Perhaps there is such a check already. See accept(2) on a linux system for a lengthy explanation. Falk

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XEmacs/GTK 21.2 branch created... 24 years, 3 months

William M. Perry

This morning I've created a new initial tag & a branch off of it for doing GTK work on the 21.2 code base. The new branch is called `gtk-xemacs-21-2', and a tag was laid down immediately beforehand called `gtk_xemacs_21_2_start' to ease in doing merges, etc. Nothing new is on that branch yet, but the wife and son are out for the next 5 hours, and there is a supply of coke laid in, the remains of my birthday cake, and XEmacs to sustain me until they return. I will be trying to get all of this checked in by feb 1st. If not, then probably before the 6th. Jen is leaving for florida to go scuba diving in the keys, so I won't have anything to do in the evenings after liam goes to bed. -Bill P.

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Netinstall 24 years, 3 months

Andy Piper

I plan on announcing the netinstaller next week when the new packages are released. This will fix the remaining mule warning. I have rejigged the ftp hierarchy so that it is: pub/xemacs/windows/ pub/xemacs/windows/setup.exe pub/xemacs/windows/setup.ini pub/xemacs/windows/packages -> ../packages pub/xemacs/windows/win32 -> ../binaries/win32 pub/xemacs/windows/cygwin32 -> ../binaries/cygwin32 This satisfies the need for a stand alone hierarchy without having windows stuff in the root. I have tried a download myself with a direct connection and had none of the problems Adrian reported - so I don't know whether it is anything to do with our ftp site. andy -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Andy Piper Principal Consultant, BEA Systems Ltd

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Re: Utility to submit patches against CVS 24 years, 3 months

Adrian Aichner

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes: Stephen> Hacked this up while not proctoring the national Stephen> university entrance exam (still had to sit around with no Stephen> net access in case one of the proctors got sick). Stephen> Lightly tested. An early version generated the patch "New FAQ. Stephen> XEmacs bitches about xmodmap." Hi Stephen, here's the patch I promised in another patch :-) This works on Windows 2000 too now. TODO: ChangeLogs should be searched like patch-to-change-log does it (using find-change-log). See (defun patch-to-change-log (devdir &rest cl-keys) in "c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\xemacs-base\\add-log.el" I can't get it to produce -U 0 diffs for ChangeLog files and -u diffs for other files. Don't know why this is so, not even the cvs -f switch helped. It's either that or the other for all files even though you use two separate commands in (shell-command ...). I don't understand that one. Anyway, I am using gnus/message and this works fine. Hope this still works for you with VM after you set mail-user-agent accordingly, if you haven't yet done so. Best regards, Adrian ChangeLog: 2001-01-21 Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org> * sjt-prepare-xemacs-patch.el: Don't require vm any longer. Update comments. * sjt-prepare-xemacs-patch.el (sjt/prepare-xemacs-patch): Convert to user-configurable `compose-mail'. Fix infinite loop bug in event of missing ChangeLog entries. patch: Don't know where you want to put it, I just have it in xemacsweb because I had to save it somewhere. I won't check it in there, of course. cd c:\Hacking\Sourceforge\xemacsweb\ diff -u sjt-prepare-xemacs-patch.el.orig sjt-prepare-xemacs-patch.el Compilation started at Sun Jan 21 01:34:00 2001 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) --- sjt-prepare-xemacs-patch.el.orig Sun Jan 21 01:26:07 2001 +++ sjt-prepare-xemacs-patch.el Sun Jan 21 01:33:41 2001 ＠＠ -27,6 +27,8 ＠＠ ;; ;; * Currently only knows about VM, but should be easily adaptable to ;; message. (Patches welcome!) +;; * APA: Use compose-mail instead of vm-mail. This allows user to +;; choose favorite `mail-user-agent'. ;; * Isn't a Perl script. ;; ;; To do: ＠＠ -37,8 +39,6 ＠＠ ;; * Customize. ;; * Port to Perl. -(require 'vm) - (defvar sjt/prepare-xemacs-patch-root "/coda/Projects/XEmacs" "Root of XEmacs workspace. XEmacs modules should be checked out into ＠＠ -80,19 +80,19 ＠＠ in the same directory, the parent, and so on up to top level. They may be omitted from FILES. -Example: (sjt/prepare-xemacs-patch "21.2-HEAD" "man/xemacs-faq.texi") +Example: (sjt/prepare-xemacs-patch \"21.2-HEAD\" \"man/xemacs-faq.texi\") does cd /coda/Projects/XEmacs/21.2-HEAD - diff -U 0 man/ChangeLog - diff -u man/xemacs-faq.texi + cvs diff -U 0 man/ChangeLog + cvs diff -u man/xemacs-faq.texi and sets up the header To: XEmacs Patches <xemacs-patches(a)xemacs.org> Subject: [21.2] -BUG: The only message agent available is vm-mail." +" ;; #### Do argument parsing with existence check on $top/$module, and ;; using an iterator to get filenames with check and completion. ＠＠ -100,9 +100,9 ＠＠ ;; Parse the arguments. (let ((top (expand-file-name module sjt/prepare-xemacs-patch-root)) - (relpaths (split-string files)) - (logs nil) - (notfound nil)) + (relpaths (split-string files)) + (logs nil) + (notfound nil)) ;; Air-check module (if (not (file-exists-p top)) ＠＠ -156,25 +156,29 ＠＠ notfound))) (message "Aborted!") ;; Set up message buffer. - (vm-mail "XEmacs Patches <xemacs-patches(a)xemacs.org>") - (insert "\n\n\n") - (backward-char) + ;; Use compose-mail so user can pick favorite `mail-user-agent'. + (compose-mail + "XEmacs Patches <xemacs-patches(a)xemacs.org>" + (format "[%s]" + (cdr (assoc module + sjt/prepare-xemacs-patch-module-tag-alist)))) + (insert "\n") + (cd (directory-file-name top)) (shell-command - (apply #'concat - `("cd " - ,(directory-file-name top) - " ; cvs diff -U 0" + (apply 'concat + `("cvs -f -z3 diff -U 0" ,＠(mapcar #'(lambda (el) (concat " " el)) logs) - " 2>/dev/null ; cvs diff -u" + " 2>" ,grep-null-device " ; cvs -f -z3 diff -u" ,＠(mapcar #'(lambda (el) (concat " " el)) relpaths) - " 2>/dev/null")) + " 2>" ,grep-null-device)) t) ;; Check for successful cvs diff and munge change lines like mrb's ;; cvs-diff (let ((diffs (append logs relpaths))) (mail-text) - (while diffs + ;; APA: avoid infinite looping by checking for eobp + (while (and (not (eobp)) diffs) (re-search-forward sjt/diff-index-re nil t) (let ((full (match-string 1)) (prefix (match-string 2)) ＠＠ -206,10 +210,7 ＠＠ ;; could try redoing the diff here (when diffs (mail-text) - (insert (format "**** cvs diff of %s failed! *****" diffs)))) + (insert (format "**** cvs diff of %s failed! *****\n" diffs)))) - ;; Set up subject header - (mail-subject) - (let ((tag (cdr (assoc module - sjt/prepare-xemacs-patch-module-tag-alist)))) - (if tag (insert "[" tag "] ")))))) + ;; Go to subject header + (mail-subject)))) Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Sun Jan 21 01:34:00 -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

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Re: Building with pdump litters /usr/local/bin 24 years, 3 months

Adrian Aichner

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes: >>>>> "OG" == Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com> writes: OG> This is the dump file. Don't remove it. That's where the missing 3Mb OG> went (and pdump is a lot more aggressive about dumping only what's OG> needed, that's why it boils down to 2.6Mb). OG> Someday, somehow, it will come back inside the executable, but not in OG> this release's timeframe. Martin> I believe this is also the reason why pdump should _not_ be the Martin> default dumper when 21.2 is released. The unexec dumper, _if_ it Martin> works, is currently a better solution for users. And I'm saying this Martin> as a pdump co-maintainer. Martin> Of course, for platforms where pdump is broken or non-ported, pdump Martin> should happen automatically (it doesn't currently). Martin> Are there such platforms? Sure. Irix with CC='gcc Martin> -mabi=64', for example. Don't forget the potentially most prominent platform (today, hopefully not tomorrow): 21.2/man/xemacs-faq.texi: ＠node Q6.4.1, ,Q6.3.3, MS Windows ＠unnumberedsec 6.3: Troubleshooting ＠unnumberedsubsec Q6.4.1 XEmacs won't start on Windows. (NEW) XEmacs relies on a process called "dumping" to generate a working executable. Under MS-Windows this process effectively fixes the memory addresses of information in the executable. When XEmacs starts up it tries to reserve these memory addresses so that the dumping process can be reversed - putting the information back at the correct addresses. Unfortunately some .dlls (For instance the soundblaster driver) occupy memory addresses that can conflict with those needed by the dumped XEmacs executable. In this instance XEmacs will fail to start without any explanation. Note that this is extremely machine specific. 21.1.10 includes a fix for this that makes more intelligent guesses about which memory addresses will be free, and this should cure the problem for most people. Unfortunately, no binary is yet available for this version. Check back periodically at ＠uref{ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/binaries/}. 21.2 implements "portable dumping" which will eliminate the problem altogether. You might have better luck with the 21.2 beta binary, available at ＠uref{ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/binaries/}. Martin> Most of these platforms are not important for users, only for Martin> masochistic maintainers. Huh? Martin> Martin -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

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with latest cvs, no packages found 24 years, 3 months

Michael Harnois

I just updated CVS and built, and now none of my packages are found. Is this another variation on load-path-depth being munged? Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA mdharnois(a)home.com aa0bt(a)aa0bt.ampr.org No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. -- Aristotle

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