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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-01-08 17:26:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-01-08 17:26:39 +0000 |
| commit | 168fc7f2a7d260f3e871f58ab4b921a4df7a8b12 (patch) | |
| tree | 38f2250038d13a43c797684b3aba2b2050467503 | |
| parent | 1460e5d49daf6467fe4a7c9f4766d2ddf00a2620 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-168fc7f2a7d260f3e871f58ab4b921a4df7a8b12.tar.gz | |
Mention possible problems with new versions of GNU cpp and "..".
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index b2fa8dd29c1..b24a6c75504 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1,6 +1,18 @@ This file describes various problems that have been encountered in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. +* Building Emacs with GCC 2.9x fails in the `src' directory. + +This may happen if you use a development version of GNU `cpp' from one +of the GCC snapshots around Oct 2000 and later, or from a released +version of GCC newer than 2.95.2. The preprocessor in those versions +expands ".." into ". .", which breaks relative file names that +reference the parent directory. + +The solution is to make sure the preprocessor is run with the +`-traditional' option. (The `configure' script should do that +automatically with Emacs 21 and later.) + * When using Xaw3d scroll bars without arrows, the very first mouse click in a scroll bar might be ignored by the scroll bar widget. This is probably a bug in Xaw3d; when Xaw3d is compiled with arrows, the |