vlcek@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Jim Vlcek) (09/13/90)
Well, I've had generally very good luck so far in bringing up AIX 1.1, XWindows, and emacs on our PS/2 Model 80, although there's a couple of small things lurking around causing trouble. XWindows installed quite easily, but one problem I'm finding is that, when I rlogin from another host (typically a VAXstation 3100 running 4.3BSD), and then open up an aixterm, I can't bring up the aixterm option menus -- the aixterm blows up with an "Abort or IOT trap" message. Anyone have any experience with this? Emacs 18.55 also went in rather easily, although I had to do some gymnastics to find enough disk space to do the build and installation. I did the decompression and dearchiving on another machine, and then ftp'd only the absolutely necessary stuff over to the target machine, leaving out some of the dist/lisp/*.el files in the process. The one problem I encountered in the build/install process that I couldn't solve was that the command "./temacs -batch -l inc-vers" in the file dist/src/xmakefile kept blowing up with exit status -1. I finally commented the line out, and got emacs up and running, at the cost only of having a slightly-messed-up version number. Anyone have any idea why this particular (and rather innocuous) line wouldn't execute properly? All it does is modify some data in the file "version.el"; I don't think that the omission of any of the other .el files could have affected this. (Obviously, I didn't omit version.el!) Any ideas? Jim Vlcek (vlcek@caf.mit.edu vlcek@athena.mit.edu)