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Article #87809Emacs 19.25 / X11R6 / SunOS 4.1.3
From: Andy Gay
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 18:14
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 18:14
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I've seen a few notes here from folks having trouble making 19.25 on Sun sparc kit with X11R6. I had the same problems, but did get it built eventually by hacking the config.h that configure made. I'll describe what I had to do, perhaps that'll let others get it running and help the developers fix whatever's wrong with configure. 1 - Unpack it all as usual and run configure (no arguments or parameters). Configure ran happily for me and found that I had a sun with 4.1.3, gcc (2.5.8 in case that's relevant) and X11R6 (patchlevel 4, installed in the default /usr/X11R6). Running make failed as others have reported. I found 2 places where config.h needed to be amended - I had to #define HAVE_XRMSETDATABASE and HAVE_XSCREENNUMBEROFSCREEN to make xfns.c compile, and HAVE_GETHOSTNAME for sysdep.c. (If anyone wants a copy of my working config.h send me a note). 2 - In my setup the link also failed because it wanted to link with the static libX11.a, the default X11R6 build on this system only makes a dynamic lib (libX11.so.4.20). I had to rebuild X11 after setting #define ForceNormalLib YES #define SeparateSharedCompile YES in site.def (after #ifdef AfterVendorCF) to get the static libs. After that it all worked fine(!). Note to the developers: is the static linking intentional or could emacs use the shared libs? BTW - The effort involved in getting it running was well worth while - this is an excellent product.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,f3a8672652f31abd,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-25 11:25:57 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!ddsw1!panix!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!rdl.co.uk!andy From: andy@rdl.co.uk (Andy Gay) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Emacs 19.25 / X11R6 / SunOS 4.1.3 Date: 25 Aug 1994 14:14:48 -0400 Organization: Racal-Datacom Ltd, Hook, Hants, UK Lines: 34 Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Message-ID: <33imvd$9p@tiger.rdl.co.uk> Summary: How I made it work Keywords: emacs x11 x11r6