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Re: building, well, emacs on Ultrix 4.2

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From: Brian W. Masinick
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1991 14:42
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In article <9107222237.AA02901@phecda>, tsang@isi.com (Kam C. Tsang) writes:
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>From: tsang@isi.com (Kam C. Tsang)
>Subject: building, well, emacs on Ultrix 4.2
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>[Sorry for posting this on a epoch list, someone please show me the
> address of the emacs list...]
>
>I'm trying to build emacs (not epoch) for a DECstation 3100 running
>Ultrix 4.2.  In src/config.h I have
>
>#include "s-bsd4-2.h"
>
>and
>
>#include "m-vax.h"
>
>but then when it trys to compile crt0.c, we have the following errors:
>
># cc -c -Demacs     crt0.c
>ccom: Error: crt0.c, line 194: syntax error
>      asm("     .text           ");
>      ----^
>ccom: Error: crt0.c, line 195: syntax error
>      asm("     .globl start    ");
>      ----^
>ccom: Error: crt0.c, line 196: syntax error
>      asm("     start:          ");
>      ----^
>(ccom): crt0.c, line 196: cannot recover from earlier errors: goodbye!
>      asm("     start:          ");
>      ----------------------------^
>
>Looks like this C compiler doesn't have asm().
>
>Can someone please point out what's the problem here?  Thanks.
>
>-kam
>     ----------------------------+-----------------------------
>                      Kam Tsang  |  User Interface Group
>           (408) 980-1590 x 275  |  Integrated Systems, Inc.
>           (408) 980-0400 [Fax]  |  3620 Jay Street
>                  tsang@isi.com  |  Santa Clara, CA  94054
>     ----------------------------+-----------------------------
>
--
The "s-bsd4-2.h" was OK, but if you really have a DECstation 3100 and
not a VAXstation of some type, then it is NOT a VAX system.  It is a
MIPS system.  Therefore, use the machine file header "m-mips.h" and
the types of problems you described should go away.

Brian W. Masinick
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From: masinick@themas.mko.dec.com (Brian W. Masinick)
Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc
Subject: Re: building, well, emacs on Ultrix 4.2
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Date: 23 Jul 91 14:42:43 GMT
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