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Add a PROBLEMS note about the libotf name-clash annoyance
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@ -255,6 +255,36 @@ result in an endless loop.
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If you need Emacs to be able to recover from closing displays, compile
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it with the Lucid toolkit instead of GTK.
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** Emacs crashes when you try to view a file with complex characters.
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For example, the etc/HELLO file (as shown by C-h h).
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The message "symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/emacs: undefined symbol: OTF_open"
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is shown in the terminal from which you launched Emacs.
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This problem only happens when you use a graphical display (ie not
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with -nw) and compiled Emacs with the "libotf" library for complex
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text handling.
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This problem occurs because unfortunately there are two libraries
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called "libotf". One is the library for handling OpenType fonts,
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http://www.m17n.org/libotf/, which is the one that Emacs expects.
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The other is a library for Open Trace Format, and is used by some
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versions of the MPI message passing interface for parallel
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programming.
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For example, on RHEL6 GNU/Linux, the OpenMPI rpm provides a version
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of "libotf.so" in /usr/lib/openmpi/lib. This directory is not
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normally in the ld search path, but if you want to use OpenMPI,
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you must issue the command "module load openmpi". This adds
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/usr/lib/openmpi/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If you then start Emacs from
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the same shell, you will encounter this crash.
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Ref: <URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806031>
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There is no good solution to this problem if you need to use both
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OpenMPI and Emacs with libotf support. The best you can do is use a
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wrapper shell script (or function) "emacs" that removes the offending
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element from LD_LIBRARY_PATH before starting emacs proper.
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Or you could recompile Emacs with an -Wl,-rpath option that
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gives the location of the correct libotf.
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* General runtime problems
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** Lisp problems
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