Xref: utzoo gnu.emacs:924 gnu.emacs.bug:808 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: problems with 18.54 distribution/patches (long) Message-ID: Date: 20 May 89 05:37:06 GMT References: <872@apctrc.UUCP> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Lines: 25 In-reply-to: zjat02@apctrc.trc.amoco.com's message of 20 May 89 04:02:15 GMT In <872@apctrc.UUCP> zjat02@apctrc.trc.amoco.com (Jon A. Tankersley) writes: > Something is sorely broken in 18.54 distribution (as found on uunet) and > patches. At least for Sun3 under SunOS 4.0.1: Some of these could be > attributed to other misc. patches, but not all. Anybody got any ideas? My idea is that it is the uunet copy which is "sorely broken". I applied the 18.53-18.54 patches to our 18.53 source with minimal difficulty and recompiled without problem. Sun3, SunOS 4.0.1. Since this distribution has been out for a few weeks now I think that this matter would have been brought up a while ago if the problem existed in a wide-spread context. (Suns and 4.0.1 are pretty common on the net ...) The only patch I had to add besides the distribution patches were one for X menus which fixed a rather nasty problem of Emacs freezing up if a menu was requested. (Speaking of which, Simon Brock I have been trying to get J Dean Brock's patch for this problem to you for over a week; the nfsnet-relay on your side of the ocean is complaining about some bad authorisation thing. Can you provide some sort of reliable way to get mail to you?) Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) (error "UUCP not spoken here. Long bang paths unlikely to get mail replies.")