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From: baron@wiesje.hobby.nl (Wim 'Blue Baron' van Dorst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Elvis 1.3
Keywords: Mine won't work
Message-ID: <69@wiesje.hobby.nl>
Date: 4 Sep 90 02:27:29 GMT
Organization: Minix Hobbynet Host, Huizen, The Netherlands
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Hello *,

Will Rose (cwr@pnet01.cts.com) posted the other day:

> Elvis 1.3 compiled on my XT with one edit of the Makefile - to add the -F
> option to the compiler!  Mind you, the poor little thing took 65 minutes
> in all.  Thanks Steve - a marvellous piece of work.

I did the same edit (adding the -F option).  Then it took Wiesje (my
XT) about 60 to 70 minutes to find out that asld got out of memory!!
So I added the -DNO_SENTENCE option to the Makefile too, and that made
it to compile completely.  But now the resulting binary won't work!!
It gives the message "foobar (new file) 1 line" and the hangs the
system.  The only way out is F9 :-(

I have straightforward Minix PC 1.5.10 on a 640kB 8088 IBM clone at 8
MHz with a Hercules screen running the ACK compiler (cpp, cem, cg, opt,
asld) of the official PH 1.3 release.  Did Will use anything else, like
bcc?  Is there another thing I may have differently?  I have a
continuous struggle to get elvis up-and-running.  The only version that
worked reasonably was a cross-compiled 1.1 by a friend of mine.  But
even that one had lots of peculiar screens moves, though.

I would like to hear from people, other than Will Rose, who have
compiled Elvis 1.3 properly like Will, and especially how they did it
and what hard/software they use.

Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim 'Blue Baron' van Dorst
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