Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!mtgzx.att.com!jis From: jis@mtgzx.att.com (J Mukerji) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Still no luck trying to make Andrew under SunOS 4.1 Message-ID: Date: 28 Sep 90 21:20:59 GMT References: <9009281417.AA08869@informatics.WUstl.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 35 Ahh.. my favorite subject for the week! I have finally been able to build Andrew PL6 and PL7 under SunOS4.1, with a little finagling. The stuff in atk/ness/doc failed to build because nessrun coredumped in PL7 and for a slightly different reason in PL6. So I temporarily hacked the Imakefile in atk/ness to avoid building atk/ness/doc at all. The rest built and installed fine. But then the fun began. (1) First, when I tried to crank up runapp it crashed, I mean the whole darned workstation went south on a panic trap. I saved the core and am waiting for expert advice from our friendly Sun PAL. In my opinion nothing that a mere application does should cause the kernel to go south. this happens in about 50% of my attempts to start up an Andrew application out of my .xinitrc file, and about 25% of the time when starting an Andrew application from an xterm window. It never happens when starting an Andrew application from gdb. (2) Next Ez under certain circumstances started to core dump. In particular this happens when you try to create a new window using ^X2. Took a look at what is happening using gdb. It seems to be crapping out at some inoccuous assignment statement in frame_InitializeObject. (3) Messages failed to come up. That one seems to be trapping at some inoccuous assignment statement in site.c, which compiles and works fine on 4.0.3. All this leads me to start suspecting the sanity of the 4.1 C compiler/loader. Will continue investigating and keep you all posted. Jishnu Mukerji, jis@mtgzx.att.com, +1 201 957 5986, AT&T Bell Laboratories, MT 3K-423, 200 Laurel Ave., Middletown NJ 07748