From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 1171@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>, Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#1171: #1171 - ns-version-string - Emacs bug report logs
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:01:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1vxhx7cu.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763mtf4q8.GNU's_Not_Unix!%yavor@gnu.org> (Yavor Doganov's message of "Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:34:07 +0200")
> Yes, it looks like this this code in emacsbug.el
> (insert "Windowing system distributor `" (x-server-vendor)
> "', version "
> (mapconcat 'number-to-string (x-server-version) ".") "\n")
> really expects x-server-version to be a number.
Actually a list of numbers.
> There are more problems with ns-version-string:
> 1) It shows the FQDN, which some users might find inappropriate. At
> least this is not consistent with the other flavors.
> 2) It doesn't show the host on which Emacs was built, but the host on
> which it is currently running, e.g.
> GNU Emacs 23.0.60 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, NS gnustep-gui-0.12.0)
> of 2008-11-12 on tzotzolana.yavor.doganov.org, modified for gNewSense
> This was built on a different host and I installed it on tzotzolana as
> a binary (*.deb) package from an APT repository.
> 3) The date is also wrong, and shows the current date, not the date
> Emacs was built. (The actual build date in the above example is
> 2008-10-27). I guess this is a nasty consequence of CANNOT_DUMP...
These all seem to be direct consequences of using CANNOT_DUMP and
probably do not manifest under Cocoa. I wouldn't worry too much about
it (better fix the underlying problem and get dumping to work for
GNUstep).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-12 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 13:31 bug#1171: #1171 - ns-version-string - Emacs bug report logs Adrian Robert
2008-10-21 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-21 22:37 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-22 10:53 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-10-22 12:29 ` Adrian Robert
2008-10-22 13:14 ` Adrian Robert
2008-10-22 17:05 ` Glenn Morris
2008-10-22 21:11 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-10-22 22:43 ` Adrian Robert
2008-10-22 23:20 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-10-23 1:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-12 13:34 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-11-12 16:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-11-12 19:11 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-11-12 19:19 ` Adrian Robert
2008-11-12 19:50 ` Emacs cannot dump on GNUstep Yavor Doganov
2008-11-12 20:27 ` Adrian Robert
2008-11-12 19:48 ` bug#1171: #1171 - ns-version-string - Emacs bug report logs Stefan Monnier
2008-12-11 23:46 ` bug#1171: ns-version-string Glenn Morris
2008-12-31 15:03 ` Adrian Robert
2008-10-23 1:02 ` bug#1171: #1171 - ns-version-string - Emacs bug report logs Glenn Morris
2008-10-23 0:48 ` Glenn Morris
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