Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!scott@bu-ma.bu.edu From: scott@bu-ma.bu.edu (Scott Sutherland) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Need pointer to documentation for temacs Message-ID: <880806145933@bu-ma> Date: 6 Aug 88 18:59:34 GMT References: <8808032120.AA08239@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> <623@etive.ed.ac.uk> Lines: 43 In-reply-to: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk's message of 5 Aug 88 10:27:23 GMT In article <623@etive.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes: > > In article <8808032120.AA08239@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> thakur%cfa201@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (Manavendra K. Thakur) writes: > > > >I'm trying to install ... > > > >make -f xmakefile all > >./temacs -batch -l inc-vers > >./temacs: ^B^A^K: not found > >*** Error code 1 > >make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xemacs' > > > >In order to track this down, I need to know just what the hell temacs > >is and where I can find documentation on it. I've perused the > >emacs-gnu directories on prep.ai.mit.edu and can't find anything > >explaining what temacs wants and what it does. > > Well, I've never built emacs, and have no idea how to. But this looks like a > general unixy type of problem. I'd guess that ./temacs is a binary for some > other machine. The Sun2 can't interpret it as a binary, and so assumes it's > a shell script - hence the " not found" message. > Perhaps if you remove ./temacs, the makefile will make you a correct one? > -- > Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. > nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick I have built emacs before, and temacs is a temporary "bare" version of emacs that is built prior to building the real one. As far as I can tell, its relationship to the final version of emacs is the same as virtex is to TeX (or initex, I forget) (which means nothing to you if you've never built tex before...) Anyway, the idea is that you compile all the C code to produce temacs, which then reads in various lisp stuff to initalize itself, then dumps out a copy of the final emacs with all the lisp code built in. What lisp code is included is partially defined in site-init.el. Nick's suggestion that you delete the temacs you have sounds right to me; you can (and should) rebuild one from the source code. Scott Sutherland scott@bu-ma.bu.edu Boston University Math Department