unable to compile Xemacs on SGI Indigo running IRIX 4.0.5H

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From: being
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1995 05:05

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howdy all...

well, i wrote earlier about my problems with the scrollbar in Xemacs
regarding the fact that it is only a narrow slit on the side of the window
and does not seem to respond to configuration lines in the .emacs file or
my .Xdefaults file. 

in any event, i thought i would try to get around this problem by just
compiling the thing myself.  this has not proved to be so easy a task.  i
am getting a ton of errors in the file etags.c.  they look like this... 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
             while ((dbp = strchr (dbp, TEX_esc)))  
       -----------------------------------------^
accom: Error: /usr/local/xemacs-19.11/lib-src/etags.c, line 2740: illegal 
combination of pointer and integer, op =
           if ((p = strchr (p, ':')) && *(++p))
       ----------------------------^
accom: Error: /usr/local/xemacs-19.11/lib-src/etags.c, line 2740: types :   
pointer to char  versus   int
           if ((p = strchr (p, ':')) && *(++p))

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

the compiler chokes here and exits with error code 1.  this is most
unfortunate and i would like to resolve the problem ASAP so if anyone has
Xemacs going on their Indigo i'd love to hear how it's working for you and
how you got it working for you etc... 

the machine is an SGI Indigo running IRIX 4.0.5H. 

everything in the README and related files seems to indicate this should
be just peachy and no problem to compile but obviously it's not so clear. 

thanks in advance for any help,

-pjf biochem grad student, u of utah

finerty@msscc.med.utah.edu
pfinerty@nyx10.cs.du.edu

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