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From: esj@ufnet.ufl.edu (Eric Johnson)
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Subject: Re: 18.55 on Sparcstation 1+ and SunOS 4.10
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Date: 5 Jul 90 19:13:18 GMT
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>I have been attempting to make emacs on a Sparcstation 1+ running SunOS
>4.10 and seem to be having little success. Compilation seems to be going
>fine, but whenever I run the final executable I get 
>
>fatal error (6). Aborted.

I had the same problem. The malloc in emacs seems to disagreee
with SunOS 4.1. I built it with SYSTEM_MALLOC defined 
in src/config.h. It works fine now.

A related question: Has anyone successfuly built emacs
18.55 on SS1 SunOS 4.1 with gcc 1.37.1? When I did
my temacs dumped core mighty quick.

Ej