rab@murdu.oz (Richard Alan Brown) (09/18/89)
Some time back I copied the EMACS 3.10 source files from the net. I had previously made uEmacs 3.9e on our DOS PCs, our DG MV/8000, and a Vax running VMS. However, with the new version, 3.10, NONE of these can be easily made. Here are the problems: - Despite the inclusion of extra support, I cannot successfully make 3.10 on our MV/8000, either under MV/UX or AOS/VS. The 'support' file for AOS/VS will not even compile without errors! - On VMS, there are numerous routines missing (such as getffile()). I also get a lot of 'attribute conflict' errors in the link. I also note that the ESTRUCT.H file requires one to set one of the various C compiler flags to be non-zero, but there is no flag for VMS-C!! - Under MS-DOS, the supplied makefiles failed under both MSC and Turbo-C. So, as you can see, there seem to be a lot of problems with the new version. HELP! I'd love to have the new version running! (I have a copy of the DOS executable, so that's no longer a problem). As an aside, it would be nice if the OS contributors make nice scripts for making uEmacs, e.g. MAKE_AOSVS.CLI, MAKE_VMS.COM, ... Richard Brown (rab@murdu.mu.OZ.AU) (or: rab@murdu.ucs.unimelb.OZ.AU i think)
hsw@TYCHO.NCSC.MIL (Howard Weiss) (09/19/89)
>From Richard Brown: >- On VMS, there are numerous routines missing (such as getffile()). > I also get a lot of 'attribute conflict' errors in the link. I also > note that the ESTRUCT.H file requires one to set one of the various > C compiler flags to be non-zero, but there is no flag for VMS-C!! If you read the section entitled Building MicroEMACS for VMS in the emacs.txt file that comes as part of the distribution, it fills in the details that you are missing. I have just successfully compiled and am running microEMACS 3.10 on VAX VMS 5.1.1. I agree, the code could have been a lot cleaner in the VMS area, and a .com file would have been nice, but the price was right and I can't complain too much or too loudly. In answer to you questions: getffile is not needed if you set COMPLET to 0 in estruct.h. Completion does not work yet for VMS so you can either set COMPLET to 0 or put in dummy functions for getffile and getnfile that do nothing. The attribute conflicts are in main - the conflicts are in epath.h and edef.h. The compiler flags should all be 0. I had to add another 0 switch to estruct.h to satisfy the compiler for a stray #if. Also, my VAX-C compiler did not #if A | B types of constructs (most of these were #if BSD | V7, etc). By commenting out the or'd portion, the compiler was satified and the code worked. In order to compile I used the emacs.opt file as a guide and used link emacs/option/share to link it all together. Oh yea, char.obj had to be added to emacs.opt to supply islower, isupper, etc. Howard Weiss hsw at tycho.ncsc.mil -------