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Article #1445Re: Gnu Emacs v18.44 on RT
From: Karl Kleinpaste
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1988 20:05
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1988 20:05
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Any SysVish system which runs temacs fine and gives you an xemacs, but which then follows an attempt to execute xemacs with Killed is almost certainly a victim of COFF troubles. The SysV kernel (especially back on VAX USG V.2) does not provide much in the way of decent error-checking as it loads in a binary, and if it detects formatting troubles in the COFF headers, it takes the wholly rude solution of psignal(p, SIGKILL); which is why you hear about it from the shell as just `Killed.' Acknowledging that I've never built GNU Emacs on an RT, I would first suggest that you #define NO_REMAP and try it all over again. This will tell unexec() not to be nearly so, ahem, creative in how it futzes about with the boundaries of text and data space, thus reducing the likelihood of upsetting COFF issues. Alternatively, of course, pick the most recent version (18.52) from wherever is most convenient and try that. coff, coff, choke. --Karl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!attcan!telly!ddsw1!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.emacs,gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs v18.44 on RT Message-ID: <25394@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 21 Oct 88 20:05:26 GMT References: <919@cps3xx.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: usa Lines: 22 In-reply-to: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP's message of 21 Oct 88 18:37:34 GMT