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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs on System V Unix
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Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 10:49:15 EDT
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Thanks to all those who responded to my request for information
on the availability of GNU Emacs on System V.  The consensus is that any
GNU version greater than 17.49 would work on System V.  We had been
in the dark ages using version 13.  The moral of the story is keep
up with the distribution network!

I obtained a copy of 17.64 and put it up on my System V Release 2 Version 2 p 
VAX 11/785.  The installation was relatively smooth, except I needed the
LOADER_N_SWITCH defined in s-usg5.2.2.h, in my release it was
commented out.  This caused a write error in unexec when temacs
dumped xemacs.  This switch causes the -N switch to be sent to ld
when building temacs, making it unsharable.  Does this also make 
the resulting xemacs and emacs unsharable?  I was also unable to 
build emacs using TERMINFO, it complained about finding a library.
I suspect this would be easy to correct, but I just used termcap.

Bob Kossey