nrouquet@pollux.usc.edu (Nicolas Rouquette) (07/25/89)
Hello, I compiled GnuEmacs 18.53 on a Sequent Symmetry S27 running Dynix 3.0.12 with Dynix' and the m-sequent.h file as is. Emacs seems to run fine except that there is a nasty interaction with flow of control. When I run Emacs and press ^l two times quickly, some garbage appears on the screen and there is a fatal error (11) and core dumped. Some other times, when I load a file from the comand line argument, it looks as if the Seqent sent some ^S^Q sequence that Emacs grabbed and interpreted as: I-Search ^Q. Also, pressing ^S two times consecutively crashes Emacs no matter what else I did. Any suggestions appreciated. Nick.
rjk@sawmill.uucp (Richard Kuhns) (07/27/89)
Several people have asked about getting GNU Emacs running (properly!) on a Symmetry. My experience (I've had everything from 18.41 to 18.54 running on an S27) indicates the following: if you use the standard C compiler, DON'T optimize. I used m-symmetry.h -- if this isn't part of the standard distribution, let me know and I'll mail you a copy. Back in the 18.4? days it wasn't -- I put one together myself and I'm afraid I haven't kept track in more recent distributions. If you use gcc (1.35, anyhow), you can compile GNU emacs with optimization, and it apparently works just fine (don't forget the -traditional switch!) -- that's how I've compiled the last couple of revisions, and I haven't had any problems. You'll also get a smaller binary. I haven't bothered trying atscc yet -- I'm well satisfied with gcc and see no reason to change, since I don't have much use (yet) for the parallel processing capabilities Sequent's C compilers provide. Rich Kuhns the_known_world!newton.physics.purdue.edu!sawmill!rjk PS. I just tried to compile the recent omega distribution from comp.sources.games using atscc -- the load failed with `undefined symbol L1136'. gcc (with -traditional) compiled it with nary a complaint. I haven't bothered to try the standard cc.
rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) (07/30/89)
In article <RJK.89Jul27095511@sawmill.uucp> rjk@sawmill.uucp (Richard Kuhns) writes:
Several people have asked about getting GNU Emacs running (properly!)
on a Symmetry.
I haven't done it all on all combinations, but I've done emacs
18.48-present on dynix 2.x - present.
I've had luck with cc -O, cc, and gcc (use -traditional. otherwise,
it compiles, but doesn't run.) in most forms. Use m-sequent.h, and
s-bsd4-3.h. The only trick is that under X you need to put a
"(set-input-mode nil nil)" in a default.el for your system.
I haven't bothered trying atscc yet -- I'm well satisfied with gcc
and see no reason to change, since I don't have much use (yet) for
the parallel processing capabilities Sequent's C compilers provide.
same here. Actually, I need similar facilities but all of sequent's
pplib require related processes.
--
rich.