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From: jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Trying to install emacs on VMS 4.5
Message-ID: <8712181501.AA03275@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 18 Dec 87 14:33:52 GMT
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>> My guess is that you copied the .ELC files, too, but they got
>> corrupted.  So when TEMACS tries to load "simple,", it finds the .ELC
>> and tries to use that, but it's corupted.  To fix this, you can delete
>> all your .ELC files, but if you do that, I think maybe you'll need to
>> double (or so) PURESIZE, which is #define'd in vms.h (after being initially
>> #define'd in config.h).  Also, be sure to remember which .ELC files
>> you've deleted.

>> Once you've got your emacs dumped, you can byte-compile all the .EL
>> files that should be .ELC files, and then drop PURESIZE back to its
>> original value and recompile TEMACS and redump it.  

Instead of building the larger purified file, leave PURESIZE alone and
do this (in emacs/lisp):

1. Remove the .elc files.
2. Start ../src/temacs (no switches).
3. Load loadup.el, which will load all the normaly-resident libraries
   from .el files.
4. Run byte-recompile-directory to get working .elc files (the byte
   compiler will be running interpreted, but who cares?  If you think
   you do, run byte-compile-file on bytecomp.el, then load its .elc
   (maybe in a fresh temacs), then byte-recompile-directory.).
   (Certain of the .elc files are explicitly avoided by loadup.el
   (read it for details) - simply remove these when you're done if you
   care).
5. Go out for a cup o' java.
6. When the compile is done, exit temacs.  You can now proceed to make
   the dumped emacs in emacs/src.

/jr
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