Re: XBase-Clients, Xemacs, and gcc

[orion@phlan.net]

On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 12:22:23PM -0500, Hilarion wrote:
> 
> On 13-Jun-99 orion@phlan.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm having three problems related to these three packages in
> > Alpha/potato:
> > 
> > Several font packages for X11 have been upgraded to
> > 3.3.3.1-4, and they depend on XBase-Clients >= 3.3.3.1-4 and -3 is the
> > only one available making X11 unusable.  It states: "could not open
> > default font 'fixed'" and does not start.
> 
> Not totally useless.  Those fonts.dir and fonts.alias files that XFree is
> looking for are there, but in the etc/... heirarchy.  Copy them, or softlink
> and everything's cool.  (And of course, the packager should fix it :)

Thanks that fixed it!
 
> > Xemacs only loads the non-gui version now, it might be because of the font
> > problem with X, but I'm not sure because I cant find any of the old font
> > packages to downgrade to.  (I'm running this thru an ssh connection if
> > anyone is curious why im trying to use Xemacs without X11 working).
> 
> I've been having trouble getting X/Emacs v20 working on my rig since I
> uninstalled it and reinstalled it a few days ago.   --configure whines about
> debian-specific files being AWOL.  (My setup is of the "unstable" flavour if
> this helps tracing which files are which.)

I figured it out, SSH wasn't setting the $DISPLAY variable because of the
ssh_config file, but Xemacs wasn't complaining since it could launch a
text version too.  
 
> Dunno about your gcc->kernel problems.  Works here on a PC164.  However,
> there's still some gcc bug with compiling NEdit.  NEdit apparently SEGV's; wish
> I'd kept a non-debian compilation of it, because gcc's progress has been slow
> of late to remove this stuff. :(

I'll mess around with it, but I think it might just be a GCC problem.

-Mike