[comp.emacs] GnuEmacs on Masscomp

wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP (Michael R. Wayne) (05/29/87)

	Seeking help on GnuEmacs on Masscomp 5400.

	As implied by the above, I am looking for someone who has suceeded
in bringing up GnuEmacs on a 68020 Masscomp system.  I have managed to 
acquire the missing .h file (/usr/include/sys/un.h) from a REAL BSD system
and built temacs 18.41 using m-masscomp and s-rtu with the following warnings:

##W-cc(010)"buffer.c",line 1062: Unreachable statement
##W-cc(191)"search.c,line 548: Redundant '&' operator

When temacs tries to load inc-vers I get:

Loading inc-vers...
Search failed: "emacs-version \"[^\^\"]*[0-9]+\""

which, of course, blows away the make.

	Now, I know that Masscomp's C compiler is rather fragile (and those
line numbers are not correct) but someone else MUST have brought up GnuEmacs
18.41 on a Masscomp system somewhere.  If you have done so, please contact
me if you are willing to share the information.  If voice is the only way 
to reach me, I will be happy to return your call so that you are not out $$.
Also, in addition to the below signature, you can use
	Wayne@Ford-VAX.arpa
as a last resort address.
-- 
Michael R. Wayne	     Voice:  (313) 322-3986 |    philabs \    
Working at (but not employed by) Ford Motor Company |    pyramid  !fmsrl7!wayne
						    | ihnp4!mb2c /    

wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP (Michael R. Wayne) (06/03/87)

Why?:	The news feed for Michigan jumped machines last weekend, news was
	interrupted and, and mail routed through mb2c is no longer being
	delivered (new path is through mibte).

	If anyone replied via mail to my plea for help, I would greatly
appreciate it if you would try again.  I assume that someone really is
using GnuEmacs on a Masscomp out in netland and the mail just bounced for the
above reason?  If you have managed to get any version of it running, please
contact me.

	For those who are curious:  Masscomp's run RTU, a real-time Unix
which contains some of SIII, SV, and BSD.  I am trying to bring up 18.41.
Although temacs seems to build OK, there are problems with searching
(the version string is not found).
-- 
Michael R. Wayne           Working at (but not employed by) Ford Motor Company 
Voice: (313) 322-3986                Arpa: wayne@ford-vax.arpa (not preferred)
uucp: {philabs | pyramid | ihnp4!mibte} !fmsrl7!wayne   OR   wayne@fmsrl7.UUCP
WANT AD:"Pls contact me if you can help with Gnuemacs 18.41 or MH on Masscomp"

ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (06/05/87)

Turn off the OPTIMIZER on the C compiler.  The Masscomp optimizer
is brain damaged.  It breaks both the search and indent code in
Unipress Emacs as well.

=Ron