Re: Emacs 23.1.90 pretest

[Steven Knight <steven.knight@unh.edu>]

On Wed Dec 09 2009 11:31:58 GMT-0500 (EST), Dave Donelan wrote:
> Steven Knight skrev:
>> On Wed Dec 09 2009 11:31:58 GMT-0500 (EST), Dave Donelan wrote:
>>> Emacs pretest 23.1.90 is now available for download via FTP, at the
>>> following location:
>>>
>>>    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.1.90.tar.gz
>>>
>>> The xdelta against Emacs 23.1 is here:
>>>
>>>    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.1-23.1.90.xdelta
>>>
>>> This is the first pretest for what will be the Emacs 23.2 release.
>>>
>>> Pretesters: please send me an email reporting success or failure on 
>>> your
>>> build platform.  Report bugs via M-x report-emacs-bugs, or email
>>> emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.  For questions, email emacs-devel@gnu.org.
>>>
>>> Note that the default for `mail-user-agent' has been changed from Mail
>>> mode to Message mode; if you have Mail mode-specific customizations,
>>> please check them.
>>>
>>> There are quite a number of changes relative to Emacs 23.1, including
>>> several new packages, notably the CEDET package of development tools.
>>> See etc/NEWS for details.
>>>
>>>
>>> Emacs developers: please note that the tree is now frozen.  No new
>>> features are allowed, unless agreed to by Stefan or myself.  Changes
>>> that are bug fixes or improvements to documentations may still be
>>> committed directly; when in doubt, send email to 
>>> emacs-devel@gnu.org.  I
>>> think we will probably begin Emacs 24 development soon-ish, once we 
>>> make
>>> the switch from CVS to BZR (we can discuss this further on 
>>> emacs-devel).
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I built and installed Emacs on Fedora 11; I did not encounter any 
>> errors when building.
>>
>> When starting up Emacs, I get the following:
>>
>> $ emacs -Q
>>
>> (emacs:31419): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_resize: assertion `width > 
>> 0' failed
>>
>> and the computer emits a beep.
>>
>> When doing this:
>>
>> $ emacs -Q -nw
>>
>> Emacs starts-ups fine.
>>
>> Please let me know if I should be posting this somewhere else or if 
>> you need more information.
>>
>
> What happens if you do
> % emacs -Q -fn fixed
> or if that fails
> % emacs -Q -fn fixed -g 80x24
>
>     Jan D.
>
>
>
Hi,

Using either of the above commands starts emacs without issue.  How do I 
resolve my issue without using the font fixed?  Also I should have 
mentioned that using emacs 23.1 I was to build and start emacs without 
issue.

Thanks,

-- 
Steven Knight
steven.knight@unh.edu