DIXONS@smithkline.com (DIXONS) (01/11/89)
I have been trying to bring up gnu emacs (version 18.52) on our 4D120GTX system and have run into a problem perhaps someone else has solved. After a few modifications to the existing m-iris*.h and s-iris*.h files (from the gnu distribution) I have managed to get emacs running (at least for the things that I have tried). My problem is that the routine unexmips (which is supposed to save an executable image of emacs after intitialization) does not work for the current version of IRIX. As near as I can tell, the format of a ZMAGIC object file has changed quite a bit from what that routine is expecting. Rewriting that routine is probably more than I want to tackle. Has anyone else already done this? Without that, emacs is still functional, but since it loads a lot of lisp code upon startup, it is somewhat slow to start up. Regards, Scott Dixon (internet: dixons@smithkline.com)
gwyn@BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn, VLD/VMB) (01/12/89)
Yes, you've provided an illustration of the problems involved in attempting to "unexec" a process. I and others have argued with Stallman about this, but he insists on doing it like that. Too bad.