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Diffstat (limited to 'etc/PROBLEMS')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 9904339be40..c9b11fbc56c 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -542,26 +542,6 @@ Other systems allow to set LD_RUN_PATH in a similar way, but before Emacs is linked. With LD_RUN_PATH set, the linker will include a specified run-time search path in the executable. -On some systems, Emacs can crash due to problems with dynamic -linking. Specifically, on SGI Irix 6.5, crashes were reported with -backtraces like this: - - (dbx) where - 0 strcmp(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) ["/xlv22/ficus-jan23/work/irix/lib/libc/libc_n32_M3_ns/strings/strcmp.s":35, 0xfb7e480] - 1 general_find_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) - ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":2140, 0xfb65a98] - 2 resolve_symbol(0xf49239d, 0x4031184, 0x0, 0xfbdd438, 0x0, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) - ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":1947, 0xfb657e4] - 3 lazy_text_resolve(0xd18, 0x1a3, 0x40302b4, 0x12, 0xf0000000, 0xf4923aa, 0x0, 0x492ddb2) - ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld.c":997, 0xfb64d44] - 4 _rld_text_resolve(0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) - ["/comp2/mtibuild/v73/workarea/v7.3/rld/rld_bridge.s":175, 0xfb6032c] - -('rld' is the dynamic linker.) We don't know why this -happens, but setting the environment variable LD_BIND_NOW to 1 (which -forces the dynamic linker to bind all shared objects early on) seems -to work around the problem. - Please refer to the documentation of your dynamic linker for details. *** When you run Ispell from Emacs, it reports a "misalignment" error. @@ -598,17 +578,6 @@ you have a personal configuration file (normally ~/.aspell.conf), it can cause this error. Remove that file, execute 'ispell-kill-ispell' in Emacs, and then try spell-checking again. -*** Emacs eats all file descriptors when using kqueue file notifications. -See <http://debbugs.gnu.org/22814>. - -When you have a large number of buffers running auto-revert-mode, and -Emacs is configured to use the kqueue file notification library, it -uses an own file descriptor for every watched file. On systems with a -small limit of file descriptors allowed per process, like macOS, you -could run out of file descriptors. You won't be able to open new files. - -auto-revert-use-notify is set to nil in global-auto-revert-mode, therefore. - *** TLS problems, e.g., Gnus hangs when fetching via imaps http://debbugs.gnu.org/24247 @@ -2032,14 +2001,6 @@ This seems to be a GCC optimization bug that occurs for GCC 4.1.2 (-g and -g -O2) and GCC 4.2.3 (-g -O and -g -O2). You can fix this by compiling with GCC 4.2.3 or CC 5.7, with no optimizations. -** Irix - -*** Irix: Trouble using ptys, or running out of ptys. - -The program mkpts (which may be in '/usr/adm' or '/usr/sbin') needs to -be set-UID to root, or non-root programs like Emacs will not be able -to allocate ptys reliably. - * Runtime problems specific to MS-Windows ** Emacs on Windows 9X requires UNICOWS.DLL @@ -2454,6 +2415,18 @@ If this does not work, please inform bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Then please call support for your X-server and see if you can get a fix. If you do, please send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org so we can list it here. + +* Runtime problems specific to Mac OS X + +** On Mac OS X, file-name-case-insensitive-p may be unreliable + +The implementation of that function on Mac OS X uses pathconf with the +_PC_CASE_SENSITIVE flag. There have been reports that this use of +pathconf does not work reliably. If you have a problem, please +recompile Emacs with -D DARWIN_OS_CASE_SENSITIVE_FIXME=1 or +-D DARWIN_OS_CASE_SENSITIVE_FIXME=2, and file a bug report saying +whether this fixed your problem. + * Build-time problems ** Configuration |