** SunOS/Solaris
+*** Dumping error when using GNU binutils / GNU ld on a Sun.
+
+Errors similar to the following:
+
+ Dumping under the name xemacs unexec():
+ dldump(/space/rpluim/xemacs-obj/src/xemacs): ld.so.1: ./temacs:
+ fatal: /space/rpluim/xemacs-obj/src/xemacs: unknown dynamic entry:
+ 1879048176
+
+are caused by using GNU ld. There are several workarounds available:
+
+In XEmacs 21.2 or later, configure using the new portable dumper
+(--pdump).
+
+Alternatively, you can link using the Sun version of ld, which is
+normally held in /usr/ccs/bin. This can be done by one of:
+
+- building gcc with these configure flags:
+ configure --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as
+
+- adding -B/usr/ccs/bin/ to CFLAGS used to configure XEmacs
+ (Note: The trailing '/' there is significant.)
+
+- uninstalling GNU ld.
+
+The Solaris2 FAQ claims:
+
+ When you install gcc, don't make the mistake of installing
+ GNU binutils or GNU libc, they are not as capable as their
+ counterparts you get with Solaris 2.x.
+
*** Link failure when using acc on a Sun.
To use acc, you need additional options just before the libraries, such as
There have been reports of Sun sed truncating very lines in the
Makefile during configuration. The workaround is to use GNU sed or,
-even better, think of a better way to generate Makefile, and send us a
+even better, think of a better way to generate Makefile, and send us a
patch. :-)
*** On Solaris 2 I get undefined symbols from libcurses.a.
bash, as a workaround.
*** On SunOS, you get linker errors
- ld: Undefined symbol
+ ld: Undefined symbol
_get_wmShellWidgetClass
_get_applicationShellWidgetClass
*** On a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1, you get this error message from GNU ld:
- /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment
+ /lib/libc.a(_Q_sub.o): Undefined symbol __Q_get_rp_rd referenced from text segment
The problem is in the Sun shared C library, not in GNU ld.
*** SunOS 4.1.2: undefined symbol _get_wmShellWidgetClass
Apparently the version of libXmu.so.a that Sun ships is hosed: it's missing
- some stuff that is in libXmu.a (the static version). Sun has a patch for
+ some stuff that is in libXmu.a (the static version). Sun has a patch for
this, but a workaround is to use the static version of libXmu, by changing
the link command from "-lXmu" to "-Bstatic -lXmu -Bdynamic". If you have
OpenWindows 3.0, ask Sun for these patches:
1. The ld in IRIX 5.3 ignores all but the last -rpath
spec, so the patched configure spits out a warning
if --x-libraries or --site-runtime-libraries are
- specified under irix 5.x, and it only adds -rpath
+ specified under irix 5.x, and it only adds -rpath
entries for the --site-runtime-libraries. This bug was
fixed sometime between 5.3 and 6.2.
This might be a sed problem. For your own safety make sure to use
GNU sed while dumping XEmacs.
-*** On HP-UX 11.0 XEmacs causes excessive X11 errors when running.
+*** On HP-UX 11.0 XEmacs causes excessive X11 errors when running.
(also appears on AIX as reported in comp.emacs.xemacs)
Marcus Thiessel <marcus@xemacs.org>
configure:
--x-libraries="/usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6 -L/usr/lib/X11R6"
-
+
Make sure /usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6/libXm.sl is a link to
/usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6/libXm.3.
*** Native cc on SCO OpenServer 5 is now OK. Icc may still throw you
a curve. Here is what Robert Lipe <robertl@arnet.com> says:
-Unlike XEmacs 19.13, building with the native cc on SCO OpenServer 5
+Unlike XEmacs 19.13, building with the native cc on SCO OpenServer 5
now produces a functional binary. I will typically build this
configuration for COFF with:
--site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
--with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas
-This version now supports ELF builds. I highly recommend this to
-reduce the in-core footprint of XEmacs. This is now how I compile
+This version now supports ELF builds. I highly recommend this to
+reduce the in-core footprint of XEmacs. This is now how I compile
all my test releases. Build it like this:
/path_to_XEmacs_source/configure --with-gcc=no \
--site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
--with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas --dynamic
-The compiler known as icc [ supplied with the OpenServer 5 Development
+The compiler known as icc [ supplied with the OpenServer 5 Development
System ] generates a working binary, but it takes forever to generate
XEmacs. ICC also whines more about the code than /bin/cc does. I do
believe all its whining is legitimate, however. Note that you do
--site-includes=/usr/local/include --site-libraries=/usr/local/lib \
--with-xpm --with-xface --with-sound=nas --dynamic --compiler="icc"
-NOTE I have the xpm, xface, and audio libraries and includes in
+NOTE I have the xpm, xface, and audio libraries and includes in
/usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include. If you don't have these,
don't include the "--with-*" arguments in any of my examples.
-In previous versions of XEmacs, you had to override the defaults while
+In previous versions of XEmacs, you had to override the defaults while
compiling font-lock.o and extents.o when building with icc. This seems
to no longer be true, but I'm including this old information in case it
resurfaces. The process I used was:
- make -k
- [ procure pizza, beer, repeat ]
+ make -k
+ [ procure pizza, beer, repeat ]
cd src
make CC="icc -W0,-mP1COPT_max_tree_size=3000" font-lock.o extents.o
make LD=icc
-If you want sound support, get the tls566 supplement from
-ftp.sco.com:/TLS or any of its mirrors. It works just groovy
+If you want sound support, get the tls566 supplement from
+ftp.sco.com:/TLS or any of its mirrors. It works just groovy
with XEmacs.
The M-x manual-entry is known not to work. If you know Lisp and would
like help in making it work, e-mail me at <robertl@dgii.com>.
(UNCHECKED for 19.15 -- it might work).
-In earlier releases, gnuserv/gnuclient/gnudoit would open a frame
+In earlier releases, gnuserv/gnuclient/gnudoit would open a frame
just fine, but the client would lock up and the server would
-terminate when you used C-x # to close the frame. This is now
+terminate when you used C-x # to close the frame. This is now
fixed in XEmacs.
In etc/ there are two files of note. emacskeys.sco and emacsstrs.sco.
*** The XEmacs executable crashes at startup.
-This can be caused by many things.
+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.
Try evaluating the form (setq lock-directory nil) and see if that helps.
There is a problem with file-locking on some systems (possibly related
-to NFS) that I don't understand. Please send mail to the address
+to NFS) that I don't understand. Please send mail to the address
xemacs@xemacs.org if you figure this one out.
*** When emacs starts up, I get lots of warnings about unknown keysyms.
If you are running the prebuilt binaries, the Motif library expects to find
certain thing in the XKeysymDB file. This file is normally in /usr/lib/X11/
or in /usr/openwin/lib/. If you keep yours in a different place, set the
-environment variable $XKEYSYMDB to point to it before starting emacs. If
-you still have the problem after doing that, perhaps your version of X is
+environment variable $XKEYSYMDB to point to it before starting emacs. If
+you still have the problem after doing that, perhaps your version of X is
too old. There is a copy of the MIT X11R5 XKeysymDB file in the emacs `etc'
directory. Try using that one.
*** My X resources used to work, and now some of them are being ignored.
Check the resources in .../etc/Emacs.ad (which is the same as the file
-sample.Xdefaults). Perhaps some of the default resources built in to
+sample.Xdefaults). Perhaps some of the default resources built in to
emacs are now overriding your existing resources. Copy and edit the
resources in Emacs.ad as necessary.
XEmacs has fairly new TTY redisplay support (beginning from 19.12),
which doesn't include some basic TTY optimizations -- like using
scrolling regions to move around blocks of text. This is why
-redisplay on the traditional terminals, or over slow lines can be very
+redisplay on the traditional terminals, or over slow lines can be very
slow.
If you are interested in fixing this, please let us know at
if ($?EMACS) then
if ($EMACS == "t") then
- unset edit
+ unset edit
stty -icrnl -onlcr -echo susp ^Z
endif
endif
XEmacs in a non-C locale. For example, `LC_ALL=en_US xemacs' crashes
while `LC_ALL=C xemacs' runs fine. This happens for example with GNU
libc 2.0.7. Installing libintl.a and libintl.h built from gettext
-0.10.35 and re-building XEmacs solves the crashes. Presumably soon
+0.10.35 and re-building XEmacs solves the crashes. Presumably soon
everyone will upgrade to GNU Libc 2.1 and this problem will go away.
*** `C-z', or `M-x suspend-emacs' hangs instead of suspending.
Also make sure that the `/etc/host.conf' files contains the following
lines:
- order hosts, bind
+ order hosts, bind
multi on
Any changes, permanent and temporary, to the host name should be
The solution is to add a pair of quotes around `tty` to make it a
single word:
-if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
+if (`tty` == "/dev/console")
should be changed to:
-if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
+if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console")
Even better, move things that set up terminal sections out of .cshrc
and into .login.
and testers. It probably doesn't work.
** There are no `native XEmacs' TUTORIALs for any Asian languages,
-including Japanese. FSF Emacs and XEmacs tutorials are quite similar,
+including Japanese. FSF Emacs and XEmacs tutorials are quite similar,
so it should be sufficient to skim through the differences and apply
them to the Japanese version.
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