jfjr@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Freedman) (08/13/87)
First of all I'd like to thank all of you who responded to my
last inquiry about installing GNUemacs in a Sun. I replied personally
to everybody but unfortunately a lot of the replies we bounced back.
Well here I am trying to install GNU emacs in a Sun3. I modified
the confif.h and path.h files as instructed - pushed the button,
stepped back and let 'er rip. Died because not enough pure lisp
storage. I removed the site-init.el (as instructed in the INSTALL
file). It made xemacs but it wouldn't run. I issue the command
'xemacs' and it dies with a syntax error at line 1
xemacs: NuNV^?|.^MKn^P; not found
xemacs: NVN9: not found
xemacs: syntax error at line 1: '^N' expected
reading on in INSTALL it tells me that the .elc files are probably
corrupted so delete them all, double PURESIZE, remake xemacs
which should work etc
Not so - xmakefile needs to see some .elc files
I tar and rcp a new set of .elc files
ditch all the object files etc and try to start fresh (PURESIZE set back)
I get Pure Lisp storage exhausted
I make sure i am not loading a site-init.el
still get pure Lisp Storage exhausted.
I get a flash of inspiration I double PURESIZE again.
xemacs is successfully made but when I try to
run it it gives me garbage again
frustration sets in - if the Sun console was not quite so heavy
perhaps it would have been airborne
at any rate things are NOT working out well..
(a vt100 is smaller than a Sun console - lets see how one of them
flies...)
Jerry Freedman, Jr "As you wander through life
jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa Whatever be your goal
(617)271-6248 or 7555 Keep your eye upon the doughnut
and not on the hole"ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (08/14/87)
> xemacs: NuNV^?|.^MKn^P; not found > xemacs: NVN9: not found > xemacs: syntax error at line 1: '^N' expected I don't know what you are doing wrong, but this indicates that xemacs is not a valid executable file. Since it explicitly got chmoded to executable status, the shell thought that it must be a shell file. Possibly the unexec didn't work. Did you remove any xemacs turd left by your previous attempt that failed? Did you clean out the directory of all binary files from other machine architectures that may have been present in your distribution. -Ron