saunders_j@alb000.dnet.ge.com (Jonathan S. Saunders) (06/01/91)
An informal poll of GNU Emacs user's on
Interactive UNIX System V/386
systems. If you don't know anything about Interactive UNIX you
can probably ignore this...
1) How many people are running Emacs under Interactive UNIX? (you
can e-mail me if you want to say "I am" and relate any
problems you've had and how you built it (e.g, version? gcc or cc?
POSIX or standard? job control or not? X or not? Interactive's
X or 3rd party X) -- I hope there aren't millions of you!)
2) Is any one in particular maintaining the patches and
associated lore to run Emacs on Interactive? Does anyone think
this would be a good idea? Would anyone like to volunteer? I
could deal with it, but if anyone else is psyched or is
already doing it, feel free to raise a hand claim the job.
My goal would be to provide a patch kit that the user could
configure to determine the type of build (e.g. use cc or gcc,
enable job control or not, build and X version or not).
3) My own experience with Emacs has been wonderful. It worked
just fine out of the box (more or less). But I'm just using
the native cc and no job control and running in an xterm --
not the X version. I still haven't built an X version that I
like, but that's another story -- not for here.
I hope this isn't wasted bandwidth. I don't know, maybe no one is
having any trouble with Emacs under Interactive, but I know I've
seen some questions about, and I know that the SCO people have
Chip Salzenberg keeping track of a lot of stuff for them. Maybe
all that works for Interactive, too, but I thought it was about
time we got ourselves organized...
Obviously a similar kind of thing would be useful for all the GNU
products (esp. gcc and g++, unless they work out of the box. I
know someone posted stuff about getting bash to build with the
POSIX compiler), but I don't have FTP access yet <sniff, sniff>
and I'm not sure I have the time try lots of combinations.
ttfn, ^. .^
jonathan ==`==
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