cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) (08/27/90)
Elvis 1.3 compiled on my XT with one edit of the Makefile - to add the -F
option to the compiler! Mind you, the poor little thing took 65 minutes
in all. Thanks Steve - a marvellous piece of work.
Will
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INET: cwr@pnet01.cts.combaron@wiesje.hobby.nl (Wim 'Blue Baron' van Dorst) (09/04/90)
Hello *, Will Rose (cwr@pnet01.cts.com) posted the other day: > Elvis 1.3 compiled on my XT with one edit of the Makefile - to add the -F > option to the compiler! Mind you, the poor little thing took 65 minutes > in all. Thanks Steve - a marvellous piece of work. I did the same edit (adding the -F option). Then it took Wiesje (my XT) about 60 to 70 minutes to find out that asld got out of memory!! So I added the -DNO_SENTENCE option to the Makefile too, and that made it to compile completely. But now the resulting binary won't work!! It gives the message "foobar (new file) 1 line" and the hangs the system. The only way out is F9 :-( I have straightforward Minix PC 1.5.10 on a 640kB 8088 IBM clone at 8 MHz with a Hercules screen running the ACK compiler (cpp, cem, cg, opt, asld) of the official PH 1.3 release. Did Will use anything else, like bcc? Is there another thing I may have differently? I have a continuous struggle to get elvis up-and-running. The only version that worked reasonably was a cross-compiled 1.1 by a friend of mine. But even that one had lots of peculiar screens moves, though. I would like to hear from people, other than Will Rose, who have compiled Elvis 1.3 properly like Will, and especially how they did it and what hard/software they use. Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim 'Blue Baron' van Dorst --------------------------------------------------------------------- Blue Baron = Wim van Dorst, Voice (+31) 074-443937, (+31) 02152-42319 (-: baron@wiesje.hobby.nl tgcpwd@urc.tue.nl :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------
cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew) (09/06/90)
In <69@wiesje.hobby.nl> baron@wiesje.hobby.nl (Wim 'Blue Baron' van Dorst) writes: >I did the same edit (adding the -F option). Then it took Wiesje (my >XT) about 60 to 70 minutes to find out that asld got out of memory!! >So I added the -DNO_SENTENCE option to the Makefile too, and that made >it to compile completely. But now the resulting binary won't work!! >It gives the message "foobar (new file) 1 line" and the hangs the >system. The only way out is F9 :-( I managed to compile elvis straight out of the box (so to speak): 16 bit systems: Elvis will Enot compile using bcc. To be more precise, Elvis will compile but the resulting executable has slightly more than 64k of executable. I compiled Elvis with no problems using ACK. Make sure you've chmem'ed all the important passes to have 64k (cem, asld in particular). I am not using a ram disk so this may affect how you compile Elvis. I used the Minix makefile that was distributed with Elvis. After you've finished compiling (if you haven't fallen asleep in the iterim) --- check the size of the executable with the size(1). Also make sure you compiled with -i (separate i&d). Make sure you chmem so that Elvis has a fighting chance. 32 bit systems: bcc will compile Elvis to just over 64k of text. Runs without problems (other than the built-in bugs :-). I used the bsd makefile (with a few modifications). In both versions, cursor motion is still sometimes a little strange. Earl -- Earl Chew, Dept of Computer Science, Monash University, Australia 3168 EMAIL: cechew@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au PHONE: 03 5655447 FAX: 03 5655146 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) (09/06/90)
I recently posted some bug fixes to Elvis 1.3 to alt.sources. They mostly are for MSDOS, but there are a couple of fixes that affect ALL versions. If a significant number of people can't get alt.sources, then I could post my fixes here. If just a few can't, I can email it to you. Now to start working on Elvis for Minix. I'm afraid that I'm behind all the rest of you guys cuz I was in desperate need of a _real_ editor for MSDOS. Thanks Steve, for a great editor. -- Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6 kjh@usc.edu ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh
waltje%minixug.uucp@plains.nodak.edu (Fred van Kempen) (09/26/90)
Dear All, Can someone send me the compiled (and, preferrably. working) binary of the new Elvis 1.3 editor? I can't get the sucker to compile.... Also: when using Elvis 1.1 on my VISA LINK (== TVI925) terminals, I get some very weird behaviour with TABbing along the line; it looks like either Elvis or the terminal has wrong TAB-settings. Does any- one know what is going on here??? Fred. +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | MINIX User Group Holland UUCP: waltje@minixug.UUCP | | c/o Fred van Kempen, or: waltje%minixug@plains.nodak.edu | | Hoefbladhof 27 | | 2215 DV VOORHOUT "Love is - what you want it to be. | | The Netherlands Alannah Myles" | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+