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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: Re: compiling emacs
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Date: 10 Feb 89 13:26:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: ron@ron.rutgers.edu's message of 9 Feb 89 23:05:09 GMT

ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
   First, make sure that you
   have the Sys5 R3 on [3b20s].  Any previous versions have hideous
   bugs in VMIN/VTIME support that cause egregious workarounds and
   sudden unexplained EMACS hangs.

Not quite true; Rel2.2 took care of these sorts of problems.  GNU
Emacs has been compiling routinely on such machines since about 18.36.
No workarounds weirder than usual for SysV were necessary.

--Karl