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From: karl@haddock.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: getting GNU running on AIX
Message-ID: <517@haddock.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 19:56:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.517
Posted: Fri Jun  5 19:56:38 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 09:58:28 EDT
References: <8706050038.AA12852@UTKCS2.CS.UTK.EDU>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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Summary: Working on it now

In article <8706050038.AA12852@UTKCS2.CS.UTK.EDU> moore@UTKCS2.CS.UTK.EDU (Keith Moore) writes:
>I spent a couple of days trying to get GNU 18.41 running on AIX.  I finally
>got it to compile (unexec wouldn't work).  After doing so, I tried to run
>temacs [which died with a SIGKILL].  If I remember properly, this is the way
>the kernel handles programs which are just too big.

(Generally, SIGKILL is how the kernel handles an unrunnable file if it's too
late to return to the previous image (the one that called exec()).  I've seen
this happen when the a.out format was incorrect, for example.)

I plan to make an unexec() that will work on AIX.  I'd appreciate any advice
above and beyond what I can find in "man a.out".  Also, I'll gladly accept any
hints about other pitfalls that await me in building AIX emacs.

Perhaps we should start a mailing list for this subtopic?

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint