pke@public.btr.com (Peter Espen pke@btr.com) (10/12/90)
I have a complete source code distribution of emacs 18.55 that I am trying to compile and build. I have completed the compiling and building without errors, but I have some questions about the lisp files in emacs/lisp. The distribution that I have has both *.el and *.elc files in the lisp directory. A "make install.sysv" loads some of the .elc files during the make. How can I be sure that these *.elc files have been correctly compiled for my machine. Is there a way to recompile the *.el files so that they run correctly on my system? I'm very new to emacs, so please excuse me if I don't have a correct understanding of how things are working yet. Should I let 'make' load the .elc files during 'make install.sysv' and then recompile the *.el files and reload the *.elc files from within emacs? Any help or explanations will be greatly appreciated. Peter Espen pke@btr.com
pke@public.btr.com (Peter Espen pke@btr.com) (10/12/90)
I am happy to report that I have solved the problems I was having in getting emacs-18.55 built for AUX 2.0. I had used the patches (emacs-18.55.aux.diffs) from apple.com and gcc to compile the sources from the full emacs sources distribution that we have on our X11R4 and GNU cd-rom (sold by 'Young Minds, Inc.') at work. I was getting all kinds of errors and strange behavior when running my build of emacs. It turns out that all the *.elc files in the emacs/lisp directory of the emacs distribution had been compiled by emacs on a SUN workstation and were failing when executing under AUX 2.0. I used my emacs to re-compile the *.el files with a 'emacs -batch -f batch-byte-compile *.el' . This produces a new set of compiled *.elc files. I then went back and did 'make' again except now the new *.elc files were loaded during the make. Everything is now working great!! Thanks to everyone for bearing with me! Peter Espen pke@btr.com
tiemann@arkesden.eng.sun.com (Michael Tiemann) (10/19/90)
Resent-Date: 14 Oct 90 16:33:08 GMT Resent-From: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: <news@pws.bull.com> Path: know!samsung!rex!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.announce Date: 14 Oct 90 16:33:08 GMT References: <631@public.BTR.COM> <643@public.BTR.COM> <JBW.90Oct13001407@bucsf.bu.edu> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Resent-To: help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu jbw@BUCSF.BU.EDU (Joe Wells) writes: |Folks, please don't send any help to people trying to use GNU programs on |Apple machines. Helping companies like Apple that are trying to destroy |the freedom to program just defeats the purpose of the Free Software |Foundation. What a callous attitude. People usually have _no_choice_ over what hardware they use. This is bullshit! With our current technology, people have a choice over the color of their hair, the color of their eyes, and whether to vote Democratic or Republican. Only children lack choice in this society. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** rec.pyrotechnics: "Blow up or shut up." Michael