Untitled

Sunday, November 17, 2002

It seems that the problem with bootstrapping that was occurring earlier has been fixed.

I've received a report that texinfo at ftp.gnu.org has been updated to version 4.3. The sample commands above have been updated to reflect this. Note the compiler options passed to ./configure.

If you apply the following patch to src/keyboard.c, Emacs can be interrupted by a SIGINT signal. This is useful when Emacs gets stuck.

Index: src/keyboard.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/keyboard.c,v
retrieving revision 1.715
diff -u -r1.715 keyboard.c
--- src/keyboard.c      15 Nov 2002 20:06:03 -0000      1.715
+++ src/keyboard.c      18 Nov 2002 05:28:22 -0000
@@ -10494,6 +10494,11 @@
   poll_suppress_count = 1;
   start_polling ();
 #endif
+
+#ifdef MAC_OSX
+  /* At least provide an escape route since C-g doesn't work.  */
+  signal (SIGINT, interrupt_signal);
+#endif
 }
 
 /* This type's only use is in syms_of_keyboard, to initialize the