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Subject: Need Help in Installing Emacs on Sys
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 01:31:00 EST
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I am having difficulties installing GNU Emacs 17.49 on a vax-750 running
System 5.0 version 2.  Make complained that the size of  structure 
nlist (or something like that) in file FNS.C, line 1040 is undefined.
I then explicitly included <nlist.h> inside FNS.C; this seemed to work fine.
But then the C compiler gave a warning that malloc() does not return
the type ptr but integer, when compiling ALLOC.C.  I just ignored it.
The next error is GETPAGESIZE() was undefined in ALLOCA.C.  I replaced it
with NBPC after including <sys/param.h>.  (not sure what I'm doing here)
The real difficulty came when TEMACS started loading standard lisp packages
and called (garbage-collect).  It gave the message 'Wrong type of argument:
stringp, 1329' and hang until I typed control-D.  I have tried to fix it, but
the source code looks formidable.  Could somebody please help ?

The other things I have tried are using different s-usg5*.h; casting 
pointer type to malloc, and deleting (garbage-collect) from loadup.el.
Still didn't work.

PS: I also installed it on a SUN running 4.2BSD, successfully.  DOCTOR is
    pretty neat.


-Nicholas Tran