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From: lee@infotec.UUCP (Lee Van Dyke)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: RE: help installing emacs on sun4 under 4.1, also another question on keybindings
Keywords: emacs keybinding
Message-ID: <806@infotec.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 91 21:19:39 GMT
Organization: Infotec Development Inc., Costa Mesa, CA
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In article <804@infotec.UUCP> you write:
>Has anyone had a similar problem installing emacs 18.55 on a sparc, it compiles and
>links but crashes at the c-shell level (none of the x-windows portions are
>included) with the above error?
>


Thanks to all who replied for the answer (I have not been able to get this file yet) :

>From an old version of the gnu.emacs.help Frequently Asked Questions
>posting:
>
>  
>44. Why does Emacs crash under SunOS 4.1?
>  
>  Under SunOS 4.1, Emacs dies with this message:
>  
>    Fatal error (6).Abort
>  
>  There is a bug in the "localtime" routine supplied with SunOS 4.1.
>  A private function called by tzsetwall zeroes the byte just past an
>  eight byte region it mallocs.  This corrupts GNU malloc's memory pool.
>  
>  Put "#define SYSTEM_MALLOC" in src/config.h.

The above worked.


Next problem:

We are running under SunOS 4.1

I am still having trouble binding macros to the function keys and the keypad keys
and have tried the following in my .emacs file:

(setq sun-esc-bracket t)
(load "...emacs-18.55/lisp/term/sun.el")


when I try to assign a key M-x global-set-key the R1 keypad key, for example, is not
recognized?  I have not installed the X-windows options and do not have the xvetool
for openwindows (that is what we are using). 


Otherwise, most things work, but I really would like to bind macros to keys.
TIA



 
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