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.
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 OS X, 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.
-
* Runtime problems related to font handling
** Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X.
lower/raise); tex-suscript-height-ratio (how much smaller than
normal); tex-suscript-height-minimum (minimum height).
+** Screen refresh is slow when there are special characters for which no suitable font is available
+
+If the display is too slow in refreshing when you scroll to a new
+region, or when you edit the buffer, it might be due to the fact that
+some characters cannot be displayed in the default font, and Emacs is
+spending too much time in looking for a suitable font to display them.
+
+You can suspect this if you have several characters that are displayed
+as small rectangles containing a hexadecimal code inside.
+
+The solution is to install the appropriate fonts on your machine. For
+instance if you are editing a text with a lot of math symbols, then
+installing a font like 'Symbola' should solve this problem.
+
* Internationalization problems
** M-{ does not work on a Spanish PC keyboard.
** Window-manager and toolkit-related problems
+*** Emacs built with GTK+ toolkit produces corrupted display on HiDPI screen
+
+This can happen if you set GDK_SCALE=2 in the environment or in your
+'.xinitrc' file. (This setting is usually accompanied by
+GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5.) Emacs can not support these settings correctly,
+as it doesn't use GTK+ exclusively. The result is that sometimes
+widgets like the scroll bar are displayed incorrectly, and frames
+could be displayed "cropped" to only part of the stuff that should be
+displayed.
+
+The workaround is to explicitly disable these settings when invoking
+Emacs, for example (from a Posix shell prompt):
+
+ $ GDK_SCALE=1 GDK_DPI_SCALE=1 emacs
+
*** Metacity: Resizing Emacs or ALT-Tab causes X to be unresponsive.
This happens sometimes when using Metacity. Resizing Emacs or ALT-Tab:bing
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
(using the location of the 32-bit X libraries on your system).
+*** Building on FreeBSD 11 fails at link time due to unresolved symbol
+
+The symbol is sendmmsg@FBSD_1.4. This is due to a faulty libgio
+library on these systems. The solution is to reconfigure Emacs while
+disabling all the features that require libgio: rsvg, dbus, gconf, and
+imagemagick.
+
*** Building Emacs for Cygwin can fail with GCC 3
As of Emacs 22.1, there have been stability problems with Cygwin