loosemor@esunix.UUCP (Sandra Loosemore) (01/30/88)
I've seen a couple of messages here before in which people have been
reporting that VMS Emacs builds successfully but hangs when you try to run
it, or that it sometimes works and sometimes hangs. I've just been bringing
up 18.49 under VMS 4.6 and ran into exactly the same problem. The cause is
a typo in s-vms.h. The very last thing in this file is a define for
PENDING-OUTPUT_COUNT; change this to PENDING_OUTPUT_COUNT (that is, the
hyphen should really be an underscore), recompile dispnew.c, and all will be
well.
(The default definition of this macro is incorrect for VMS, causing
humungously large numbers to be passed to the call to sleep() inside
update_screen().)
-Sandra Loosemore
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