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From: jfjr@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Freedman)
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Subject: Help!!
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Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 11:46:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 13 11:46:28 1987
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  First of all I'd like to thank all of you who responded to my
last inquiry about installing GNUemacs in a Sun. I replied personally
to everybody but unfortunately a lot of the replies we bounced back.

  Well here I am trying to install GNU emacs in a Sun3. I modified
the confif.h and path.h files as instructed - pushed the button,
stepped back and let 'er rip. Died because not enough pure lisp
storage. I removed the site-init.el (as instructed in the INSTALL
file). It made xemacs but it wouldn't run. I issue the command
'xemacs' and it dies with a syntax error at line 1

xemacs: NuNV^?|.^MKn^P; not found
xemacs: NVN9: not found
xemacs: syntax error at line 1: '^N' expected

reading on in INSTALL it tells me that the .elc files are probably
corrupted so delete them all, double PURESIZE, remake xemacs
which should work etc

Not so - xmakefile needs to see some .elc files
I tar and rcp a new set of .elc files
ditch all the object files etc and try to start fresh (PURESIZE set back)
I get Pure Lisp storage exhausted

I make sure i am not loading a site-init.el
still get pure Lisp Storage exhausted.

I get a flash of inspiration I double PURESIZE again.
xemacs is successfully made but when I try to
run it it gives me garbage again

frustration sets in - if the Sun console was not quite so heavy
perhaps it would have been airborne

at any rate things are NOT working out well..

(a vt100 is smaller than a Sun console - lets see how one of them
flies...)




Jerry Freedman, Jr      "As you wander through life
jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa   Whatever be your goal
(617)271-6248 or 7555    Keep your eye upon the doughnut
                          and not on the hole"