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From: allbery@UUNET.UU.NET (Brandon S. Allbery - comp.sources.misc)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Problem making emacs on Altos 386/2000
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Date: 11 Mar 89 01:29:51 GMT
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I have been trying to bring up Emacs 18.53 on an Altos 386 Series 2000 running
Altos System V.  I can get temacs to compile, but the resulting program seems
to have problems.

"temacs -batch -l inc-vers" gets "Illegal function: #<buffer *scratch*>".
"temacs -l loadup" gets "Fatal error (6)", which I've traced to the garbage
collection code apparently not recognizing something in memory.

I've tried both the standard and the Xenix (Altos SysV shares a lot in common
with Xenix, but uses COFF, etc. from System V) definitions for the various
GCTYPEBITS, etc.  I also replaced an alloca() which doesn't work with the C
version.

Does anyone out there know what might cause this?  I'd really like to have a
real editor for a change.

Thanks in advance,
++Brandon