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From: sasdvp@sas.UUCP (David V. Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Building GNU Emacs 18.54 on Apollo SR10.2
Message-ID: <1603@sas.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 90 20:08:06 GMT
Reply-To: sasdvp@sas.UUCP (David V. Phillips)
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Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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I've been trying to get GNU Emacs running on an Apollo DN3500, running
SR10.2.  The source has been downloaded from prep.ai.mit.edu and built,
after I changed apollo.c to use 'gpr_$function_keys' instead of 
'gpr_$function_keys' and changed paths.h to reflect my local work
directories instead of /gnuemacs.

Everything seem to build correctly, but emacs will not run.  It seems to be
reading the /etc/termcap file, because I can delete my termcap file and
get the following error message:
emacs: Cannot open termcap database file.

With the termcap in place, I get the following error message:
emacs: Terminal type "apollo_1280_bw" is not powerful enough to run Emacs.
It lacks the ability to position the cursor.
If that is not the actual type of terminal you have,
use the C-shell command `setenv TERM ...' to specify the correct type.
It may be necessary to do `unsetenv TERMCAP' as well.

The file apollo-update-18.54/src/m-apollo-h is included by config.h and
contains the line 
#undef LIBS_TERMCAP
which supposedly will prevent the use of the system's termcap with the
Apollo GPR support that Leonard Zubkoff has written.

To build GNU Emacs, I copied the dist-18.54 directory tree, then copied the
apollo-update-18.54 directory over the first.

I would be glad to have my stupid error pointed out to me.  I have R'ed TFM
to no avail, nor can I find anyone here that can tell me my problem.
-- 
David Phillips  sasdvp@sas.UUCP   ...!mcnc!rti!sas!sasdvp