Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!riacs!pioneer.arc.nasa.gov!woo From: woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo RAC) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: GNU Emacs compiling/executable. Summary: Also TeX 3.x, gcc, g++ Keywords: binary repository Message-ID: <1991Jan4.184658.28277@riacs.edu> Date: 4 Jan 91 18:46:58 GMT References: <1991Jan1.012638.29700@ecf.utoronto.ca> <27671.2781e39b@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Sender: news@riacs.edu Reply-To: woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo RAC) Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035 Lines: 41 In article <27671.2781e39b@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu 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? There is an executable version of TeX (although not up-to-date) on vgr.brl.mil. How about such a distribution of GNU EMACS, gdb, gcc, kcl, and g++? Such executable distributions are very common for VMS systems. It would be nice if SGI would put these executables in sgi.com:~ftp/pub. Alex Woo woo@ames.arc.nasa.gov P.S. Does anyone have a ftp'able executable of the UNIX TeX 3.x distribution? Even with a lot of network hints, I have not been able to get the labrea version to pass the trip tests. ====================================================================== Alex Woo, MS 227-6 | woo@ames.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center | NASAMAIL ACWOO Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000| {seismo,topaz,lll-crg,ucbvax}! Phone: (415) 604-6010 | ames!pioneer!woo ====================================================================== {hplabs,hao,att,decwrl,allegra,tektronix,menlo70}!ames!pioneer!woo ======================================================================