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From: rlewis@slhisc.uucp (Richard Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU emacs on a Sparcstation
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.205644.3744@slhisc.uucp>
Date: 22 Aug 90 20:56:44 GMT
References: <125@tdatirv.UUCP>
Organization: Shearson Lehman Brother, Inc.
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In article <125@tdatirv.UUCP> uunet!tdatirv!sarima (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>
>	I am trying to get GNU emacs up on my Sparcstation 1 running SunOS 4.1
>I am using the X11r4 libraries in Openwindows 2.0.  When I try to run the
>emacs it dumps core, apparently by calling abort from malloc inside of
>XOpenDisplay("").
>
>	Can anyone help me in figuring this out?


In the src/m-sparc.h file insert this line:
#define SYSTEM_MALLOC 1

Recompiling emacs will cause it to use Sun's malloc rather than GNU's
malloc. Everything should work fine once this is done.

regards

Richard
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