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From: bill@boulder.Colorado.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Problem compiling gnuEmacs
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Date: 5 Jun 89 23:12:34 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@synapse.Colorado.EDU (Bill Skaggs)
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   Hi, I'm having a strange problem, and I wonder if anybody can
make any suggestions.

   I have an HP350 running HP-UX 6.5, and I've been trying to compile
version 18.54 of gnuEmacs, which I just ftp'ed from prep.ai.mit.  As
far as I can tell, there's no reason why it shouldn't work -- but when
the make gets to the "ld" stage, it complains about some undefined
externals, namely "flag_fpa", "fpa_loc", and "float_loc".

   I'm using the ordinary HP-UX version of cc, with -O.

   I assume the problem is that I'm not linking in some necessary
library, but I can't figure out what library it should be.  I can't
even figure out where those externals are used -- their names do not
appear anywhere in the Emacs source code, or in any header file in
/usr/include or /usr/include/sys.  They look like they have something
to do with a floating point accelerator, but that doesn't help me
very much.

   Judging by the documentation, people have been able to get gnuEmacs
running on 300-series machines without encountering this problem -- is
it something new with 6.5?  Can anybody enlighten me?

   Maybe it would be best to reply by email, but then again maybe this
problem will be of general interest.

   In any case, thanks for any help you can give --

					Bill Skaggs