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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 90 08:44:49 EST
From: ol
To: rms@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Emacs on VMS

While trying to convince some friends in Lausanne, Switzerland, to
switch from VMS to Unix, or better, to GNU, I'm also trying to install
Emacs onto their VMS VaxStations. I did not succeed until now, because
of multi-defined and undefined symbols, detected by the link editor.
Problems center around malloc, free and similar procedures. In s-vms.h,
there are #define's expanding malloc into sys_malloc, and so on, but I
can't find any definition of sys_malloc (the link editor too), and I get
also an error message telling me that malloc is multiply defined!

I'm using version 18.55 (the preceding one had another problem of many
symbols of the form PRV$something, used in vmsfns.c and not defined
elsewhere; this has been patched in version 18.55, but there remains two
such symbols in sysdep.c). I have only the standard distribution, with
no VMS executables (.obj or .exe).

Could anybody help me? I suspect a problem with VMS, not Emacs, but I'm
not at all a VMS guru, and I've no project to become so.

Thanks in advance!


			    Olivier Lecarme

P.S. I'm sending this message to rms because I'm not sure what should be
the best destination. Please tell me that too.