Also, Try finding the things you need using one of the search commands
XEmacs provides (e.g. `C-s').
-A general advice:
- WATCH OUT for .emacs file! ~/.emacs is your Emacs init file. If
- you observe strange problems, invoke XEmacs with the `-q' option
- and see if you can repeat the problem.
+General advice:
+ WATCH OUT for your init file! (~/.xemacs/init.el or ~/.emacs) If
+ you observe strange problems, invoke XEmacs with the `-vanilla'
+ option and see if you can repeat the problem.
* Problems with building XEmacs
and later.
** Cygwin
+
*** In general use etc/check_cygwin_setup.sh to trap environment problems.
The script etc/check_cygwin_setup.sh will attempt to detect whether
you have a suitable environment for building. This script may not work
correctly if you are using ash instead of bash (see below).
+*** Syntax errors running configure scripts, make failing with exit code 127
+ in inexplicable situations, etc.
+
+This may be because you are using the default cygwin shell. The
+default cygwin shell (/bin/sh.exe) is ash which appears to work in
+most circumstances but has some weird failure modes. You need to
+replace the symlink with bash.exe.
+
+*** Lots of compile errors, esp. on lines containing macro definitions
+ terminated by backslashes.
+
+Your partition holding the source files is mounted binary. It needs
+to be mounted text. (This will not screw up any binary files because
+the Cygwin utilities specify explicitly whether they want binary or
+text mode when working with source vs. binary files, which overrides
+the mount type.) To fix this, you just need to run the appropriate
+mount command once -- afterwards, the settings are remembered in the
+registry.
+
+*** Errors from make like /c:not found.
+
+make sure you set the environment variable MAKE_MODE to UNIX in your
+.bashrc, Control Panel (Windows 2000/NT), or AUTOEXEC.BAT (Windows
+98/95).
+
*** X11 not detected.
This is usually because xmkmf is not in your path or because you are
*** Subprocesses do not work.
-You do not have "tty" in your CYGWIN32 (for b19) or CYGWIN (for b20)
-environment variable. This must be set in your autoexec.bat (win95) or
-the system properties (winnt) as it must be read before the cygwin dll
-initializes.
+You do not have "tty" in your CYGWIN environment variable. This must
+be set in your autoexec.bat (win95) or the system properties (winnt)
+as it must be read before the cygwin DLL initializes.
*** ^G does not work on hung subprocesses.
by defining BROKEN_SIGIO in src/s/cygwin32.h, however this currently
leads to instability in XEmacs.
-*** The XEmacs executable crashes at startup.
-
-This can be caused by many things.
-
-If you are running with X11 you need to have cygwin b19 or cygwin
-b20.1 or greater, cygwin b20 will not work.
-
-If you are running with cygwin b19 make sure you are using egcs 1.0.2
-rather than vanilla gcc. XEmacs builds by default with -O3 which does
-not work with the gcc that ships with b19. Alternatively use -O2.
-
*** The info files will not build.
makeinfo that ships with cygwin (all versions) is a noop. You need to
*** I have no graphics.
-You need to obtain the various graphics libraries. Pre-built versions
+You need to obtain the various graphics libraries. Pre-built versions
of these and the X libraries are located on the XEmacs website in
-ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/aux/cygwin*.
+ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/aux/cygwin/.
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