vlcek@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Jim Vlcek) (09/13/90)
I just installed 18.55 on our PS/2 Model 80 running AIX 1.1, and was actually suprised at how easily everything went. The hardest thing, actually, was finding enough disk space to do the build. To save space, I left out some of the lisp/*.el and lisp/*.elc files; stuff like doctor, rnews, and rmail that one could live without. The one problem I encountered in the build/install process that I couldn't solve was that the command "./temacs -batch -l inc-vers" in the file dist/src/xmakefile kept blowing up with exit status -1. I finally commented the line out, and got emacs up and running, at the cost only of having a slightly-messed-up version number. Anyone have any idea why this particular (and rather innocuous) line wouldn't execute properly? All it does is modify some data in the file "version.el"; I don't think that the omission of any of the other .el files could have affected this. (Obviously, I didn't omit version.el!) Any ideas? Jim Vlcek (vlcek@caf.mit.edu vlcek@athena.mit.edu)