Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!arritt From: arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: GNU Emacs compiling/executable. Message-ID: <27671.2781e39b@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 2 Jan 91 19:43:55 GMT References: <1991Jan1.012638.29700@ecf.utoronto.ca> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 30 In article , scotth@corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) writes: > In article jeremy@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Jeremy Webber) writes: .. and MANY other posters to comp.sys.sgi, have had discussions along the lines of: > > j> Does anybody know a site where I can ftp executable GNU Emacs? I tried > j> to compile source on our 4D but so far no luck. > > j> You don't say which version of Gnu Emacs you tried to compile... [and so forth...] For as long as I've been following this group, troubles installing GNU EMACS have been a recurring problem. So many people have had problems with this (including myself) that availability of the executables would save a significant amount of person-months throughout Netland. Any volunteers? (My own installation doesn't work right...) Could SGI do this without running afoul of GNU's copyright / license policy? ________________________________________________________________________ Raymond W. Arritt | Assistant Professor | Dept. of Physics and Astronomy | "everyone knew that as time went Univ. of Kansas | by they'd get a little bit older Lawrence, KS 66045 | and a little bit slower..." arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | arritt@ukanvax.bitnet |