[comp.emacs] Xmenus in Emacs-18.55 broken

mferrare@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Mark Ferraretto) (09/17/90)

I Compiled gnuemacs-18.55 to run on Sun3/60s running SunOS 4.0.3_EXPORT to run
under X Windows.  I used the HAVE_X_MENUS option and it compiled OK.  When I
try to use the menus (Ctrl-Shift-mouse-button) I get an Unknown XMenu error message in the minibuffer and the whole program hangs.  I can't C-x C-c out of it.  I have to kill it from the window manager (twm).  Can anybody give me pointers as to what is wrong?

Mark Ferraretto
mferrare@physics.adelaide.edu.au

moore@srl.mew.mei.co.jp (W. Phillip Moore) (09/18/90)

In article <1471@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> mferrare@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Mark Ferraretto) writes:

   I Compiled gnuemacs-18.55 to run on Sun3/60s running SunOS 4.0.3_EXPORT 
   to run under X Windows.  I used the HAVE_X_MENUS option and it compiled 
   OK.  When I try to use the menus (Ctrl-Shift-mouse-button) I get an 
   Unknown XMenu error message in the minibuffer and the whole program 
   hangs.  I can't C-x C-c out of it.  I have to kill it from the window 
   manager (twm).  Can anybody give me pointers as to what is wrong?

Let me guess: you used gcc??  You're running X11R4??  I had the same bug
when I compiled 18.55 under R4 with gcc.  The fix was to compile the whole
thing with Sun's cc.  I have been using 18.55 *with* the oldXMenu for 8
months on Sun 3's and 4's.  We also use 4.0.3_EXPORT as well.

Hope this helps.

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