Bug#650976: bug#10552: Emacs build failure on GNU/Hurd i386 caused by signal

2012-01-27 Thread Chong Yidong
Rob Browning writes: > (If possible, please preserve the 650976-forwarded address in any replies.) > > We've had a report of a build failure on GNU/Hurd when a long write is > interrupted by a signal (since Emacs hasn't set SA_RESTART). > > One proposed solution is to add > > #define POSIX_SIGN

Bug#611591: bug#8467: Bug#611591: emacs23: hangs while waiting for child on hurd-i386

2011-04-10 Thread Chong Yidong
Rob Browning writes: > It looks like there may be a problem with wait_for_termination() on > GNU/Hurd systems. > > Samuel Thibault writes: > >> emacs23 would sometimes hang while waiting for a child. This is because >> wait_for_termination assumes that on all BSD-like systems kill() returns >> -

Bug#498125: bug#7491: Support for DocBook .dbk extension

2010-12-04 Thread Chong Yidong
Rob Browning writes: >> A common file extension for DocBook files is '.dbk', which is not >> commonly used for any other purpose, at least on Linux. > > Though I'm not familiar with the extension myself, I noticed that the > Wikipedia DocBook entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook) also > me

Bug#550170: Patch for 550170

2010-01-13 Thread Chong Yidong
Here is a patch for Bug#550170, "emacs23: does not start, stops after printing Wrong type argument: keymapp, ("DEAD" . 17614028)", against the Emacs 23.1 source tree. It's already in the Emacs upstream repository. diff -c /home/cyd/pretest/emacs-23.1/src/xterm.c\~ /home/cyd/pretest/emacs-23.1/src

Bug#469486: emacs22-common: partial-complete adds ".h" to filename without trying the plain input first

2008-03-05 Thread Chong Yidong
Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When using partial-complete-mode, trying to find a file, and providing >> "" as the filename should make emacs look for files named "list" >> in the directories listed in PC-include-file-path but, instead of doing >> that, emacs will look for files named