Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!pur-phy!sawmill!rjk From: rjk@sawmill.uucp (Richard Kuhns) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: GnuEmacs 18.53 on Sequent S27 Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 89 14:55:11 GMT References: <18746@usc.edu> Sender: news@sawmill.UUCP Followup-To: gnu.emacs Organization: Grauel Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 25 Several people have asked about getting GNU Emacs running (properly!) on a Symmetry. My experience (I've had everything from 18.41 to 18.54 running on an S27) indicates the following: if you use the standard C compiler, DON'T optimize. I used m-symmetry.h -- if this isn't part of the standard distribution, let me know and I'll mail you a copy. Back in the 18.4? days it wasn't -- I put one together myself and I'm afraid I haven't kept track in more recent distributions. If you use gcc (1.35, anyhow), you can compile GNU emacs with optimization, and it apparently works just fine (don't forget the -traditional switch!) -- that's how I've compiled the last couple of revisions, and I haven't had any problems. You'll also get a smaller binary. I haven't bothered trying atscc yet -- I'm well satisfied with gcc and see no reason to change, since I don't have much use (yet) for the parallel processing capabilities Sequent's C compilers provide. Rich Kuhns the_known_world!newton.physics.purdue.edu!sawmill!rjk PS. I just tried to compile the recent omega distribution from comp.sources.games using atscc -- the load failed with `undefined symbol L1136'. gcc (with -traditional) compiled it with nary a complaint. I haven't bothered to try the standard cc.