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From: hrp@cray.UUCP (Hal Peterson)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Need Help in Installing Emacs on Sys
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Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 13:00:31 EST
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> 
> I am having difficulties installing GNU Emacs 17.49 on a vax-750 running
> System 5.0 version 2.

I've been having identical difficulties with 17.49 on a VAX 785 running
System V.2.  I used the same workarounds.

> 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 got around this by commenting out all of the (garbage-collect) lines
in loadup.el and putting (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 2 gc-cons-threshold))
at the beginning of loadup.el.  Note that that's a WORKAROUND, NOT A
FIX.  Anyway, once that was done, temacs ran to completion and dumped
to xemacs.

The bad news is that this xemacs now says "Fatal error." and dumps core with
a bus error when I try to run it.  I have no idea why, or how to find out
why.

Has anybody out there done this already?  Or does somebody have a guess
on what's broken?  My time for this sort of work is limited, and I'm not
eager to reinvent the wheel.

> -Nicholas Tran 

-Hal Peterson
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