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From: eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
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Subject: GNU emacs for Apollo: any luck?
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Date: 15 Mar 89 23:43:03 GMT
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I've tried building both "apollo-emacs" and "dist-18.53" from prep on
both DN590 and DN3000 running Domain/OS 9.7, with no success. The
failure mode: either an immediate crash with Fatal Error
(apollo-emacs, either on a telnet line or a gpr window), or if I build
dist-18.53 with HAVE_X_WINDOWS, I can get it to run through loadup
until it hits lisp-mode, where it dies with "Symbol function
definition is void: not" with the mode-line all dashes, and no
apparent response to input (it doesn't actually crash, it has to be
kicked over.) Running under dbx gives me a dbx and an emacs which are
> 5Meg each and not doing anything. This is under the bsd4.2
environment, if it makes a difference (though I assume this is right,
since config.h uses m-bsd42.h.)

Therefore, some questions:
	- Has anyone else succeeded? Any hints?
	- Why are the options configured for (such as SYSTEM_MALLOC)
opposite in many cases in apollo-emacs and dist-18.53?
	- Should I just wait (and wait...) for 10.1? does it work
there? 

I actually have a working binary for 17.63, but the sources with it
don't produce a working emacs (though I narrowed at least 2 of the
problems down to new compiler bugs in the 9.7 compiler that wern't
present in the one used for the binary there...)

Any help would be appreciated (especially since my current strategy is
"Use a Sun instead" :-)
					Mark Eichin
					<eichin@athena.mit.edu>