From: mfrey <davidmfrey@comcast.net>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 16894@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16894: 24.1; Text indentation/cursor position messed up.
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:40:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233F512-2A42-442E-A2E5-A7A6A8AAE305@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93ppm767iv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
I'm afraid I can't get this to repeat anymore. I did a yum erase of emacs and reinstalled emacs-nox (which was emacs 21.4) and now even the newer versions are working properly. If I ever have this happen again, I'll include the dynamically linked libs it's using too.
Thanks for your time.
Matt Frey
On Feb 28, 2014, at 2:06 AM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
> Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>>> Perhaps upgrading Emacs installed some other packages, like curses or
>>> terminfo, which could explain this?
>>
>> I assume the original Emacs was installed via rpm. It would have the
>> versions of curses, terminfo etc that it requires specified as
>> dependencies. You'd have to do something quite special to break that,
>> and if you did, I imagine you'd get an Emacs that would simply not start
>> (due to missing libraries), as well as a system that was pretty much
>> broken altogether (because a huge number of packages depend on ncurses).
>
> Oh maybe you are right... If newer versions of curses etc were installed
> by hand, and if LD_LIBRARY_PATH or somesuch was set such that the
> previously installed Emacs happened to find these before the ones it was
> expecting. Seems very unlikely. They'd have to have the same .so
> versions to be found at all. And I don't think that compiling 24.3 on
> RHEL5 needs newer versions of those libraries anyway.
>
> Anyway, I think there's no way you or I can say what happened on the
> OP's machine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-28 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-27 15:23 bug#16894: 24.1; Text indentation/cursor position messed up mfrey
2014-02-28 2:08 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-28 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-28 7:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-28 7:06 ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-28 12:40 ` mfrey [this message]
2014-03-01 3:13 ` Glenn Morris
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