March 1999 - XEmacs-Beta - XEmacs Mailing List Archives

XEmacs 21.2.12 "Clio" is released 25 years, 3 months

SL Baur

Get it from the usual places: ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/ http://cvs.xemacs.org/ Bug fixes. The next 21.2 beta is scheduled for Friday, March 12. to 21.2.12 "Clio" -- event-stream unification for MS Windows from Andy Piper -- Determine best visual to use to avoid flashing from IENAGA Kazuyuki -- Fix for new Berkeley DB library from Paul Keusemann/Gregory Neal Shapiro -- Various package-ui fixes from Jan Vroonhof -- Fix for doubled font-locking during buffer reversion -- KFM browsing support from Neal Becker -- info fix from Didier Verna -- Build bug fixes from Martin Buchholz -- Various Documentation updates -- X-Face support for MS Windows native build from Gleb Arshinov

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Movemail fix : it is really buggy, for everyone... 25 years, 3 months

Sebastien Carpe

Not sure if i should post this on this list or if there is a special someone that should be aimed by this mail... My problem was that movemail didn't feed all the mail from my spool file (a regular file) to my primary inbox : it just stops after about 1kbytes. Since no one wanted to help me (;-p), i've dig into that code, and found a nice piece of code that just basically say : nread=read (fildes,buf,sizeof(buf)); if (nread < sizeof(buf)) break; So if the system can't completely feed the buffer for some reasons (interrupted call or whatever), movemail stops and trashes all the mails left in the spool file... May be that doesn't happen really often on Unix system (it may really not happen often, since no one ever reported) but it seems to happen every time on cygwin (20.1) since only 1000 bytes are feed whereas there is rooms for 1024... I think no one met this problem on Cygwin 'cuz they either don't use mail or don't use regular spool file (retrieve directly from pop - remember this wacky system don't handle mail :-p -...) I've supposed that 0 byte reads means the end of the file... I'm not satisfied at all with this, so if someone know how to be sure to have reached the end of a file using the read method, i'd be glad to hear about it... Replace the following block (line 432 to line 448) : { char buf[1024]; while (1) { nread = read (indesc, buf, sizeof buf); if (nread != write (outdesc, buf, nread)) { int saved_errno = errno; unlink (outname); errno = saved_errno; pfatal_with_name (outname); } if (nread < sizeof buf) break; } } with the follwing code : { char buf[1024]; int tot_written; int cur_written; while (1) { nread = read (indesc, buf, sizeof buf); if (nread == 0) /* we assume that 0 byte read means EOF */ break; if (nread < 0) { /* something went wrong when reading */ int saved_errno = errno; unlink (outname); errno = saved_errno; pfatal_with_name (outname); } /* now go for safe and full writing */ tot_written=0; while (tot_written < nread) { cur_written=write(outdesc, &(buf[tot_written]), nread-tot_written); if (cur_written < 0) { /* something went wrong while writing */ int saved_errno = errno; unlink (outname); errno = saved_errno; pfatal_with_name (outname); } /* Should i do something if nothing is written in a turn (cur_xxx ==0)...? I'm not sure, but since man doesn't tell much about this case, i suppose -1 is the only error case... */ tot_written+=cur_written; } }

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XEmacs 21.0.65 "20 minutes to 日光" is released 25 years, 3 months

SL Baur

Get it from the usual places: ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/ http://cvs.xemacs.org/ "Are we there yet?" "I told you the last time you asked, we're 20 minutes away." Bug fixes. 21.0.66 is scheduled for Friday, March 12. I screwed up the patch kit again. To get the codename right, please apply the following patch (the CVS tree is correct) if you are using either the full tarball or the patch kit. Index: version.sh =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/version.sh,v retrieving revision 1.146 retrieving revision 1.147 diff -u -r1.146 -r1.147 --- version.sh 1999/03/05 16:01:01 1.146 +++ version.sh 1999/03/05 16:12:22 1.147 ＠＠ -2,7 +2,7 ＠＠ emacs_major_version=21 emacs_minor_version=0 emacs_beta_version=65 -xemacs_codename="20" +xemacs_codename="20 minutes to Nikko" infodock_major_version=4 infodock_minor_version=0 infodock_build_version=6 to 21.0.65 "20 minutes to Nikko" -- Fix for new Berkeley DB library from Paul Keusemann/Gregory Neal Shapiro -- Various package-ui fixes from Jan Vroonhof -- Fix for doubled font-locking during buffer reversion -- KFM browsing support from Neal Becker -- info fix from Didier Verna -- Build bug fixes from Martin Buchholz -- Various Documentation updates -- X-Face support for MS Windows native build from Gleb Arshinov -- Restore corrupted CHANGES-beta file

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XEmacs Sumo-1999-03-05 is released 25 years, 3 months

SL Baur

Get it from: ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/ Updated packages are reftex-1.12 Reftex.el-3.43 c-support-1.12 Fix hideifdef autoload breakage w3-1.13 Fix steve build problems ediff-1.18 bug fixes from Michael Kifer viper-1.14 bug fixes from Michael Kifer vm-1.17 Upgrade the code to 6.67 instead of just the manual (oops) misc-games-1.10 Make advocacy.el Work with MS Windows sound mail-lib-1.22 KFM Support psgml-1.12 KFM Support gnus-1.39 Fix for running with no XPM sounds-au-1.07 sounds-wav-1.07 locale-1.12 Install dummy autoloads

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Sumo URLs (was Re: Friday's betas are on schedule) 25 years, 3 months

SL Baur

SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... > [1] I have been informed that the next Sumo tournament begins on the > 14th. Get your VCRs ready. :-) I've been sent some information about Sumo wrestling courtesy of TAKAHASHI Naoto that others may find of interest as well. An English language Sumo home page is at: http://www.sumo.or.jp/index_e.html An introduction to Sumo, including rules, etc. is at: http://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-t/nyumon/beginner/nyumon.html

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Re: [Patch] xemacs-21.2b10 browse-url with kfm 25 years, 3 months

SL Baur

Please use GNU Unified Diff format for patches. Please attach ChangeLog entries to all patches. When submitting patches to files that do not have a common ancestor, please use separate MIME attachments for each patch. Thanks. I've hand applied this patch to XEmacs 21.0, 21.2 and browse-url.el, thanks. lisp ChangeLog: 1999-03-05 SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> * menubar-items.el (default-menubar): Add kfm browsing support. From Neal Becker <nbecker(a)fred.net> mail-lib ChangeLog: 1999-03-05 SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> * browse-url.el (browse-url-browser-function): Add KFM support. (browse-url-kfm): New function. From Neal Becker <nbecker(a)fred.net> nbecker <nbecker(a)fred.net> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: *** menubar-items.el 1998/11/26 11:38:34 1.6.2.4 --- menubar-items.el 1999/02/16 03:06:34 > *** browse-url.el 1999/02/15 18:59:56 1.1 > --- browse-url.el 1999/02/15 19:02:30

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Re: Linux/Alpha 25 years, 3 months

SL Baur

nbecker <nbecker(a)fred.net> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: > It's helpful if you tell us precisely what you did and precisely what > happened. Yes. It will also help if you send in the Installation file created by configure (see bottom of this message). > I have had trouble building on alpha/linux. After dumping the > unexec'd xemacs would fail, acting as if variables had not been > initialized. (Sorry, I forget the precise message). > I was able to build as long as I tell configure: > '--compiler=gcc -B/usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-redhat-linux/egcs-2.90.27/' XEmacs is not solidly supported on Alphas yet under any operating system. There are known problems with DEC OSF/Alpha. 21.0 is known to work, 21.2 is known not to work, though Martin is working on a patch to make it work. Egcs 1.1.1 appears to work. $ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/alphaev56-dec-osf4.0e/egcs-2.91.60/specs gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release) The configuration I'm currently running is: uname -a: OSF1 gneiss.etl.go.jp V4.0 1091 alpha /freeware/XEmacs/xemacs-21.0/configure '--with-mule' '--debug=no' '--error-checking=none' '--verbose=no' '--extra-verbose=no' '--site-prefixes=/usr/local' '--compiler=gcc' '--with-xfs' '--with-gnu-make' '--srcdir=/freeware/XEmacs/xemacs-21.0' '--with-xim' XEmacs 21.0-b64 "20 minutes to Nikko" configured for `alphaev56-dec-osf4.0e'. Where should the build process find the source code? /freeware/XEmacs/xemacs-21.0 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/decosf4-0.h' and `m/alpha.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? no (The GNU allocators don't work with this system configuration). Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/dt/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/dt/lib Additional prefixes: /usr/local Runtime library search path: /usr/local/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/shlib Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for TIFF image handling. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for DBM. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in Mule (multi-lingual) support. Compiling in XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method) support. Using Motif to provide XIM support. Compiling in support for the WNN input method on Mule. Compiling in support for CDE. Compiling in support for ToolTalk. Compiling in EXPERIMENTAL support for Drag'n'Drop ( CDE ). Compiling in support for proper session-management. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Motif dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. movemail will use "flock" for locking mail spool files.

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NT/X-Xemacs binary 25 years, 3 months

Wolfgang Grieskamp

Hello, can someone out there perhaps share a runnable 21.0 binary which runs under NT with X, and a compiled X11R6 lib? I just ask as a last resort ;) We have to make a notebook-demo of an integrated software system next week, including XEmacs, which by sideconditions of other software can either run under Solaris or under NT. But the notebook only operates NT or Linux. The XEmacs part of the software depends on self-defined X fonts, so the native GUI doesn't helps. It seems that fonts are generally not supported at the moment, so converting the fonts to TTF or so doesn't helps either. I've now tried for some time to compile the X version of 21.0.64, including the X11R6 libraries, working the first time in my life on this brain-damaged NT platform. After hacking a bunch of problems with conflicting headers, missing symbols, etc., the compile finally succeeded. However, after successfull startup the XEmacs hangs complaining about a "select" failure. A problem may be that we have only MVC 6.0 instead of the approved MVC 4 or 5, but the time is to short now for backtracking. (There have been a mess of warnings during compilation of both the X11 libs and XEmacs.) So if someone has a compiled 21.0, and a compiled X11R6 lib, which works for a server such as MIX (we also have Vision), and can put it for a moment on the net, that would be really great. To motivate you, the XEmacs part of our demo is a cool presentation of the XEmacs facilities ;). It realizes a WYSIWYM (what-you-see-is-what-you-mean) mode for LaTeX including symbolic math stuff. Regards and perhaps many thanks, Wolfgang PS. Please reply by mail, I'm not on the list. -- wg(a)cs.tu-berlin.de http://uebb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~wg/

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[Q] quoting characters 25 years, 3 months

Didier Verna

Do we have a function which quotes every concerned character in a symbol already ? I think this is needed as Custom-make-dependencies for instance, doesn't know how to handle such cases. Maybe symbol-name should do it (like (symbol-name '\#) => "\#" instead of"#"), I'm not sure. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19

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Re: Linux/Alpha 25 years, 3 months

Jan Vroonhof

<nbecker(a)fred.net> writes: > I have had trouble building on alpha/linux. After dumping the > unexec'd xemacs would fail, acting as if variables had not been > initialized. (Sorry, I forget the precise message). He has the same problem. Basically the xemacs executable still thinks it is temacs. 'make run-temacs' works. Jan

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