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bug#1171: #1171 - ns-version-string - Emacs bug report logs
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#1171: #1171 - ns-version-string - Emacs bug report logs |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:01:57 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> Yes, it looks like this this code in emacsbug.el
> (insert "Windowing system distributor `" (x-server-vendor)
> "', version "
> (mapconcat 'number-to-string (x-server-version) ".") "\n")
> really expects x-server-version to be a number.
Actually a list of numbers.
> There are more problems with ns-version-string:
> 1) It shows the FQDN, which some users might find inappropriate. At
> least this is not consistent with the other flavors.
> 2) It doesn't show the host on which Emacs was built, but the host on
> which it is currently running, e.g.
> GNU Emacs 23.0.60 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, NS gnustep-gui-0.12.0)
> of 2008-11-12 on tzotzolana.yavor.doganov.org, modified for gNewSense
> This was built on a different host and I installed it on tzotzolana as
> a binary (*.deb) package from an APT repository.
> 3) The date is also wrong, and shows the current date, not the date
> Emacs was built. (The actual build date in the above example is
> 2008-10-27). I guess this is a nasty consequence of CANNOT_DUMP...
These all seem to be direct consequences of using CANNOT_DUMP and
probably do not manifest under Cocoa. I wouldn't worry too much about
it (better fix the underlying problem and get dumping to work for
GNUstep).
Stefan