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From: root@mfgfoc.UUCP (Admin)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Problems with building emacs on SunOS 4.0
Message-ID: <400@mfgfoc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 18:44:52 GMT
References: <611@expya.ex.ac.uk>
Organization: FOCUS Semiconductor Sys., Sunnyvale, CA
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From article <611@expya.ex.ac.uk>, by admin@cs.ex.ac.uk (System Administrator):
> I am having some problems with building gnu emacs 18.51 on our sun 3
> running SunOS 4.0 and I wonder if someone can help me out.
> 
> I have used s-sunos4.h which contains
> 

It works perfectly well here with SunOS 4.0 on a Sun-2.... here's a few
tips:

	1) When frustrated with any Gnu software, rm -r <gnu-dir>, 
	   reload the sources, re-configure....  in other words, start
	   from scratch

	2) Make sure you are compiling emacs with -Bstatic... I do not
	   think that dynamically linked executables like being
	   undumped.

	3) Check your paths... very important.  And give yourself
	   lots of disk space.

The major problem I had was SunOS 4.0 cc couldn't compile regex.c,
lots of silly compiler loops.  So I had to use gcc for that file.
gcc has it's own problems with SunOS4.0... a couple of preprocessor
pre-defines are not standard, and these cause problems with the
new <setjmp.h> file (which preprocesses into NOTHING without those
pre-defines).

--Greg