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From: tom@icase.edu (Tom Crockett)
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Subject: Re: Problems with Andrew on Sun SS-1
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Date: 27 Feb 90 15:31:39 GMT
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Excerpts from info-andrew: 26-Feb-90 Problems with Andrew on Sun.. Keith
Gorlen@uunet.uu.ne (5216)

>  ez brings up a window and can do primitive editing operations, and I
> could insert an eq object, but it crashes if I try to insert a zip
> object.  Most other applications (e.g. help, console, ezprint, ness)
> just dump core after printing out the "Starting ..." message but before
> bringing up a window.

>  (1) I had to recover several times from the infamous Sun-4 "sh"
> problem, (2) I couldn't get the ness documentation installed because
> ness would dump core

Finally, somebody has run into the same problems I had!!!  I was
beginning to think our system was just corrupted or something.  I had
exactly the same behavior you describe for these three cases.  I didn't
see the dofix problems, though.  (I don't have AFS and didn't try to
build WP.)  

Here's what I did.  For the core dump problems (most of the apps and
nessrun), I modified two Makefiles after running "make Makefiles" but
before running "make dependInstall".

    The following Makefiles need to be edited manually to add a -Bstatic
    option for linking:

    AS/atk/apps/Makefile

        runapp:  runapp.o statload.o  ${ATKLIBS} ${OTHERLIBS}
                $(RM) $@
        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -Bstatic -o $@  runapp.o statload.o ${ATKLIBS}
        ${OTHERLIBS}  ${SYSLIBS}

    AS/atk/ness/objects/Makefile

        nessrun:  nessrun.o ${NESSOBJS} nessmark.o  nesssym.o  
        ../tokens/libtokens.a ${LIBS}
                $(RM) $@
                $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -Bstatic -o $@  nessrun.o ${NESSOBJS}
        nessmark.o  nesssym.o   ../tokens/libtokens.a ${LIBS}  -lm


Everything ran fine after that.  It turns out that it's sufficient to
link just -lm  statically, but I did some experimentation, and found
that my typical desktop used about 900K less memory if I linked all of
the libraries  statically for runapp!  I posted my experiences with this
to info-andrew a couple of days ago;  I'll forward you a copy of that.

As for the problem with sh dumping core, I slashed my environment
variables back to the bare (and I do mean bare) minimum before starting
"make dependInstall".  I unsetenv everything except USER, HOME, SHELL,
and then do set path=( /usr/ucb /usr/bin ).  I have yet to see sh dump
core with this bare bones environment.  I've also found it helpful to do
the build on a lightly loaded machine to prevent occasional failures of
as and ccom.

Tom Crockett

ICASE
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