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From: rab@murdu.oz (Richard Alan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Problems making uEmacs 3.10 on AOS/VS, VMS, DOS
Message-ID: <1700@murdu.oz>
Date: 18 Sep 89 07:09:30 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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Some time back I copied the EMACS 3.10 source files from the net.
I had previously made uEmacs 3.9e on our DOS PCs, our DG MV/8000, and a
Vax running VMS. However, with the new version, 3.10, NONE of these
can be easily made. Here are the problems:

	- Despite the inclusion of extra support, I cannot successfully make
	  3.10 on our MV/8000, either under MV/UX or AOS/VS. The 'support'
	  file for AOS/VS will not even compile without errors!

	- On VMS, there are numerous routines missing (such as getffile()).
	  I also get a lot of 'attribute conflict' errors in the link. I also
	  note that the ESTRUCT.H file requires one to set one of the various
	  C compiler flags to be non-zero, but there is no flag for VMS-C!!

	- Under MS-DOS, the supplied makefiles failed under both MSC and
	  Turbo-C.

So, as you can see, there seem to be a lot of problems with the new version.
HELP! I'd love to have the new version running! (I have a copy of the DOS
executable, so that's no longer a problem).

As an aside, it would be nice if the OS contributors make nice scripts
for making uEmacs, e.g. MAKE_AOSVS.CLI, MAKE_VMS.COM, ...

						Richard Brown
						(rab@murdu.mu.OZ.AU)

				(or: rab@murdu.ucs.unimelb.OZ.AU i think)