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Are there known problems building Emacs 18.55 for the SPARC {SLC} running
SunOS 4.1? Emacs immediately exits with a "Fatal error(6).Abort" caused
from line 515 of malloc.c, in malloc(). Tracing through it, it appears that
the first (?) malloc of a segment of 8 or fewer bytes results in p->mh_alloc
not ISFREE and p->mh_size not nunits. With HAVE_XWINDOWS and X11 defined,
this happens on the XOpenDisplay call in x11term.c, when the R4 Xlib
makes a copy of the displayname passed in; also built without X support
but with same problem immediately. That problem does not manifest itself
with Saber-C 3.0, although that debugger doesn't like the pointer subtraction
in morecore() and never loads the lisp code. [Built with the sunos4 and
sparc header files; with the BSD 4.2 header file, temacs is not built
properly and immediately dumps with nothing useful produced.]

I'd really appreciate any hints; I've built this same distribution for a
DECstation before, so, although I'm not familiar with the software, I think
my procedures are OK.

Thanks very much. We don't get this group at my primary site, so replies
via email would be appreciated.


David B. Lewis                          Lewis, Trachtenberg & Associates (LTA)
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