From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: [drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu: Re: A new pretest] Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:48:29 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034549454 1720 127.0.0.1 (13 Oct 2002 22:50:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 180rZU-0000RL-00 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:50:52 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 180sPg-0002b6-00 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 01:44:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 180rXp-00022i-00; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 180rXE-0001mv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:48:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 180rXC-0001mj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 180rXC-0001mR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 180rXB-0005eI-00; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 18:48:29 -0400 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8549 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8549 Can someone investigate this X bug in the RC branch? ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Envelope-to: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Delivery-date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 13:17:43 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:17:38 -0500 (CDT) From: "David R. Linn" Reply-To: "David R. Linn" Subject: Re: A new pretest To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Content-MD5: pVOlfw/63ZDQWq149/qsZw== X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.41 X-Spam-Level: >> There is a new pretest available in >> >> >> Sorry about that last useless message - I clicked "send" when I meant to click "delete". Anyway, ... Under SunOS 5.9/Solaris 9 on SUN Ultra 5 (SPARC v9) with SunPro/Forte C v6.0 and otherwise standard Solaris 9 tools/libs, I had no errors or unexpected warnings building emacs v21.2.91. However, installation failed because I do not (yet) have makeinfo on this box. - ----- (cd man; make info) cd /ufs/sys2/FSF/Emacs/21/91/emacs-21.2.91/man; makeinfo emacs.texi sh: makeinfo: not found *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `../info/emacs' Current working directory /ufs/sys2/FSF/Emacs/21/91/s9/man *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `info' - ----- I'd like to suggest that we either ship the results of makeinfo in the tarball or test for the presence of makeinfo in configure and skip this step if makeinfo is not found. In order to route around this problem, I put a symlink in ${HOME}/bin from 'makeinfo' to '/bin/true' which allowed me to "complete" the installation process. Execution of tty emacs (actually in a CDE dtterm with '-nw') worked fine and more testing of new stuff will take place later. Execution of X emacs (using the XWS DISPLAY directly) failed badly. I got a window with a medium tan area above a medium purple area (the latter is the default background color for CDE on Solaris9) with no text, no graphics, and no keyboard or mouse capability. The mouse cursor *did* change to the up-right-pointing arrow when it went into what *should* have be the toolbar and reverted to the vertical "i-beam" cursor when it was returned to what should have been the normal text area. I was unable to kill this (X) window via keyboard or mouse (not even by trying the "Close/Alt-F4 action in the window manager title bar) - I had to resort to sending an interrupt via the parent shell's tty window. I tried this again with the --no-init-file flag but that made no difference. Checking my build area, it appears I never actually built emacs v21.2.90 so these problems may not be new. Obviously, debugging is needed but I'm not much of an X programmer. What do I need to do next? ------- End of forwarded message -------