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From: matt@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Gnu Emacs on an IBM RT running AIX
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Date: 10 Jun 88 19:22:30 GMT
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I am trying to install the latest version of gnu emacs on an IBM RT
running AIX.  I haven't succeeded yet; if anybody out there has 
managed to bring up emacs on an AIX system, could you let me know what
I'm doing wrong?

Summary of my efforts:
 * I am using the s- and m- files recommended in MACHINES.
 * I added a line in m-ibmrt.h declaring STACK_DIRECTION to be -1.
   alloca.c wouldn't compile without that.
 * I am trying to compile it without X.  (I have X Version 10, but
   there's no need to be fancy yet.)
 * I modified xmakefile so that the bsd library would be included:
   several functions from it appear to be necessary.
 * I am using the -g compiler switch rather than -O.

The program will now compile, but it dies immediately (it thinks that
it's receiving a signal 9) when I start it up.  I can't find anything
useful with sdb.

Any advice?


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