Bug 78024 - Consider building with --use-union-type=yes
Summary: Consider building with --use-union-type=yes
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: xemacs
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jens Petersen
QA Contact: Jay Turner
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-17 21:41 UTC by Ville Skyttä
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-11-18 03:08:24 UTC

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Description Ville Skyttä 2002-11-17 21:41:02 UTC 
There are numerous bug reports about XEmacs on RH 7 and 8 on the XEmacs mailing
lists, with the resolution including a recommendation of configuring with
--use-union-type=yes, see
<http://list-archive.xemacs.org/cgi-bin/wilma_glimpse/xemacs-beta?query=use-union-type&Search=Search&restricttofiles=on&filelist=200211&filelist=200210&filelist=200209&errors=0&maxfiles=50&maxlines=10&.cgifields=lineonly&.cgifields=filelist&.cgifields=case&.cgifields=partial&.cgifields=restricttofiles>

Perhaps RH should use that option, I've personally used a modified version of
the RH8 XEmacs RPM for quite some time now which is built with this option, and
it has worked very well for me.
Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2002-11-18 03:08:18 UTC 
Yep, I'll try using union-types in the next package release.
Thanks.
Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2002-11-18 12:48:31 UTC 
21.4.10-3 was built with union-type.
Comment 3 Ville Skyttä 2002-12-18 21:00:47 UTC 
Uh-oh.  There's some new information about this one, see
<http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200212/msg00232.html>.

I don't know which is better, union-type or not, but I've never had problems
*with* it on Red Hat.  Just a FYI.
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