Merge from gnus--rel--5.10

[gnu-emacs] / etc / PROBLEMS

diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index efa2bbd22271e856e9357065d6f42097ed1c118c..72e5a7afa7680875b63c8411e5bfc84693685945 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -144,6 +144,20 @@ Reportedly this patch in X fixes the problem.
         }
         return ret;
 
+** Emacs crashes on startup after a glibc upgrade.
+
+This is caused by a binary incompatible change to the malloc
+implementation in glibc 2.5.90-22.  As a result, Emacs binaries built
+using prior versions of glibc crash when run under 2.5.90-22.
+
+This problem was first seen in pre-release versions of Fedora 7, and
+may be fixed in the final Fedora 7 release.  To stop the crash from
+happening, first try upgrading to the newest version of glibc; if this
+does not work, rebuild Emacs with the same version of glibc that you
+will run it under.  For details, see
+
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239344
+
 * Crash bugs
 
 ** Emacs crashes in x-popup-dialog.
@@ -522,6 +536,12 @@ This can happen with CVS versions 1.12.8 and 1.12.9.  Upgrade to CVS
 
 ** Miscellaneous problems
 
+*** Emacs uses 100% of CPU time
+
+This is a known problem with some versions of the Semantic package.
+The solution is to upgrade Semantic to version 2.0pre4 (distributed
+with CEDET 1.0pre4) or later.
+
 *** Self-documentation messages are garbled.
 
 This means that the file `etc/DOC-...' doesn't properly correspond
@@ -844,6 +864,16 @@ gives the appearance of "double spacing".
 To prevent this, turn off the Exceed's "automatic font substitution"
 feature (in the font part of the configuration window).
 
+** Subscript/superscript text in TeX is hard to read.
+
+tex-mode displays subscript/superscript text in the faces
+subscript/superscript, which are smaller than the normal font and
+lowered/raised.  With some fonts, nested superscripts (say) can be
+hard to read.  Switching to a different font, or changing your
+antialiasing setting (on an LCD screen), can both make the problem
+disappear.  Alternatively, customize the subscript and superscript
+faces to increase their height.
+
 * Internationalization problems
 
 ** M-{ does not work on a Spanish PC keyboard.
@@ -1146,6 +1176,10 @@ present or commented out:
    Emacs*Foreground
    Emacs*Background
 
+It is also reported that a bug in the gtk-engines-qt engine can cause this if
+Emacs is compiled with Gtk+.
+The bug is fixed in version 0.7 or newer of gtk-engines-qt.
+
 *** KDE: Emacs hangs on KDE when a large portion of text is killed.
 
 This is caused by a bug in the KDE applet `klipper' which periodically
@@ -1839,12 +1873,15 @@ There appears to be a problem with the implementation of pty's on the
 Mac OS X that causes process output to be truncated.  To avoid this,
 leave process-connection-type set to its default value of nil.
 
-*** Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Carbon): QuickTime 7.0.4 updater breaks build.
+*** Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Carbon): QuickTime updater breaks build.
 
-On the above environment, build fails at the link stage with the
-message like "Undefined symbols: _HICopyAccessibilityActionDescription
-referenced from QuickTime expected to be defined in Carbon".  A
-workaround is to use QuickTime 7.0.1 reinstaller.
+Some QuickTime updaters such as 7.0.4 and 7.2.0 are known to break
+build at the link stage with the message like "Undefined symbols:
+_HICopyAccessibilityActionDescription referenced from QuickTime
+expected to be defined in Carbon".  A workaround is to use a QuickTime
+reinstaller.  Alternatively, you can link with the frameworks in the
+corresponding SDK by specifying LDFLAGS as
+"-Wl,-F/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks".
 
 ** FreeBSD
 
@@ -2166,6 +2203,9 @@ Files larger than 4GB cause overflow in the size (represented as a
 well, since the Windows port uses a Lisp emulation of `ls' that relies
 on `file-attributes'.
 
+Sound playing is not supported with the `:data DATA' key-value pair.
+You _must_ use the `:file FILE' method.
+
 ** Typing Alt-Shift has strange effects on MS-Windows.
 
 This combination of keys is a command to change keyboard layout.  If
@@ -2781,6 +2821,11 @@ build (from -O2 to -O1).  It is possible this is an OpenBSD
 GCC problem specific to the macppc architecture, possibly only
 occurring with older versions of GCC (e.g. 3.3.5).
 
+*** openSUSE 10.3: Segfault in bcopy during dumping.
+
+This is due to a bug in the bcopy implementation in openSUSE 10.3.
+It is/will be fixed in an openSUSE update.
+
 ** Installation
 
 *** Installing Emacs gets an error running `install-info'.
@@ -2795,6 +2840,14 @@ with spaces in the value, eg --enable-locallisppath='/path/with\ spaces'.
 Using directory paths with spaces is not supported at this time: you
 must re-configure without using spaces.
 
+*** Installing to a directory with non-ASCII characters in the name fails.
+
+Installation may fail, or the Emacs executable may not start
+correctly, if a directory name containing non-ASCII characters is used
+as a `configure' argument (e.g. `--prefix').  The problem can also
+occur if a non-ASCII directory is specified in the EMACSLOADPATH
+envvar.
+
 *** On Solaris, use GNU Make when installing an out-of-tree build
 
 The Emacs configuration process allows you to configure the
@@ -3834,7 +3887,7 @@ This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
 any later version.
 
 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,