Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 91 14:01:12 GMT References: <1991Jan30.234205.4599@bellcore.bellcore.com> Sender: usenet@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: monnie@mike.BELLCORE.COM's message of 30 Jan 91 23:42:05 GMT In article <1991Jan30.234205.4599@bellcore.bellcore.com> monnie@mike.BELLCORE.COM (Monnie Shambayati) writes: I am installing emacs 18.55 on sparc 2 machine. Since you're just starting out, you really ought to get and install the current version, 18.56. It has some patches already installed that will get you running under SunOS 4.1. I am getting an error in the command "temacs -l loadup inc dump". In the Installation doc. it says that it is probably because I don't have enough swap space. I have 32724k of swap in my machine, isn't that enough?!! Are you sure you aren't seeing something more like "pure lisp storage exhausted"? If so, then try increasing the value of PURESIZE in src/config.h. If you're getting a "Fatal error (6).Abort", then you're seeing the effects of a bug in the SunOS localtime(). If you can't get 18.56, then I can mail you a copy of the gnu.emacs.help Frequently Asked Questions list, in which the fixes are described. If you're actually running out of swap space during the build, then try killing some of the other processes running on your machine. You may have 32M of swap space configured, but `pstat -s' will tell you how much is available at any time. `ps -augx' will tell you what processes are running, their sizes, and their pids so that you can nuke them at your convenience. If you frequently run out of swap space (building Emacs can't be the only thing that gives you grief!) then you need to increase your swap space allocation.