Re: New pretest

[David R. Linn]

>> Thanks to Francesco Portorti, there is a new pretest available in
>> 
>>   <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-21.2.95.tar.gz>
>>   <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/leim-21.2.95.tar.gz>

This pretest builds, installs, and executes with no errors and no
unexpected warnings on sparc64-sun-solaris9 using Sun's Forte C
compiler

(address@hidden)5% cc -V
cc: Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09
usage: cc [ options] files.  Use 'cc -flags' for details

and otherwise SunOS 5.9 tools

I built with LEIM.  Configure said

  Where should the build process find the source code?    /ufs/sys2/FSF/Emacs/21
/2/95/emacs-21.2.95
  What operating system and machine description files should Emacs use?
        `s/sol2-5.h' and `m/sparc.h'
  What compiler should emacs be built with?               cc -g -O 
  Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc?             yes
  Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers?    yes
  Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation?         no
  What window system should Emacs use?                    x11
  What toolkit should Emacs use?                          LUCID
  Where do we find X Windows header files?                /usr/openwin/include
  Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   /usr/openwin/lib
  Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   yes
  Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -lungif?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lpng?                                   no
  Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars?                   no


I continue to have a problem with the command below
 
$ emacs -bg rgb:ff/f7/e9
Undefined color: "rgb:ff/f7/e9"

on my 8bit color display.  This works if run before Netscape (v7.0)
and fails if run after Netscape.  I believe that this is a problem
with the Sun X libraries.  The color in question *is* in the current
colormap (in fact, it is the background color of the window in which
I am composing this message) but emacs is not able to use it for some
reason.  I continue to try to find out why but I am not an X programmer
so it is slow sledding.