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authorEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2001-09-26 19:44:26 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2001-09-26 19:44:26 +0000
commit1ebfc51b1750880332d60d311de42801f57ffe14 (patch)
tree4052f4b532757d68bda2da301f9f5a64a3d4c28e /etc/MACHINES
parent2aa82bcf36e5f047b2b39abab1334976ce0c67ec (diff)
Mention XIM-related crashes on Solaris 8.
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@@ -996,6 +996,12 @@ Sun 3, Sun 4 (sparc), Sun 386 (m68k-sun-sunos, sparc-sun-sunos, i386-sun-sunos,
As of version 2.95, GCC doesn't support the 64-bit ABI properly, but
later releases may.
+ Some versions of Solaris 8 have a bug in their XIM (X Input Method)
+ implementation which causes Emacs to dump core when one of several
+ frames is closed. To avoid this, either install patch 108773-12
+ (for Sparc) or 108874-12 (for x86), or configure Emacs with the
+ `--with-xim=no' switch (you can use Leim input methods instead).
+
On Solaris 2.7, building Emacs with WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15
C 5.0 failed, apparently with non-default CFLAGS, most probably due to
compiler bugs. Using Sun Solaris 2.7 Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C