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From: jayavant@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Rajeev Jayavant)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: problems with 18.55 on SGI 4D1T
Message-ID: <16940002@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 90 20:03:11 GMT
References: <9010040026.AA22911@ems21.msrc1.pnl.gov>
Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO
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The problem you are running into is that SGI defines getcwd() in terms
of getwd() in IRIX 3.3.  Emacs, on the other hand, defines getwd() in
terms of getcwd() unless you #define HAVE_GETWD.  The result is that
the temacs you built goes into an infinite recursion when getwd() is
called.

My fix to the problem is to go into the src directory, copy
s-iris3-6.h to s-irix-3.3.h and add the following lines to it:

/* IRIX 3.3 defines getcwd() as a function of getwd().  We get a
recursive
   definition if we try to define a getwd() in terms of getcwd()! */
#define HAVE_GETWD

Then modify your config.h to use s-irix-3.3.h and rebuild!

							Rajeev
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