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From: dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Unable to compile Elvis under 1.3d [asld out of memory]
Summary: It works for me, and it's GREAT!
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Date: 8 Jan 90 01:29:35 GMT
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In article <7601@nigel.udel.EDU> mbeck@ai.mit.edu (Mark Becker) writes:
>I just tried compiling Elvis with Dave Brown's patch to vi.h and

Oops, I didn't see his patch when I got it running, but it is similar
to what I did.

>move1.h .  I also added "-i" to the makefile and "-T." after space on
>the ram disk was exhausted.
>
>The C compiler cranks through all the modules.. but asld fails with an
>out of memory message.
>
>Suggestions?  Has anyone else successfully compiled this editor using
>the Minix C compiler?  Or might it have been done with a
>cross-compile from DOS?
>

I just did this morning!  It was GREAT to be able to vi tools/fsck.c
as a whole file!!!!!.   (I couldn't do this using stevie)
Elvis defines most vi and ex commands, and includes ctags and a few
other utilities.  It seems to have a flexible copyright, that would
probably allow it to be distributed with the official Minix.
I suggest that all the vi fans really bang on this,  I think it is
MUCH better that stevie.

I'll try to remember what I did.

o I ran out of memory once with asld, but then I added the -i flag and it worked
  fine. (have you chmem'ed =64000 asld?)
o There were some 'duplicate symbols (caused by only 7 significant characters
  used by the linker, so I edited vi.h to #define some of them to unique names
  (move[fb]se*, redrawp*, and v_shiftr*).
o I changed the place temporary files were placed to /tmp (ram disk).  Search
  for /usr/tmp in vi.h.
o I needed to add a macro to define isascii().
  Was isascii not allowed in POSIX?, or was it just an oversight that it is
  missing from ctype.h.

I am running 1.5.0 on a 386 with a 1Mb ram disk on /tmp, and over 2 megs of ram
left for user processes.

            David Dyck
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