Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!synsys!john From: john@synsys.UUCP (John C. Rossmann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: GNU Emacs 18.55 and AIX PS/2 1.1 Message-ID: <347@synsys.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 03:33:29 GMT Reply-To: john@synsys.UUCP (John C. Rossmann) Distribution: na Organization: Synergistic Systems, Kingston, NY Lines: 29 I'm trying to bring up GNU emacs 18.55 on a PS/2 under AIX 1.1. I'm using m-ibmps2-aix.h and s-usg5-2.h (or it might be s-usg5-2-2.h, I'm not where I can check right now). Anyway, when I build it "straight", with and without -O, everything builds but temacs blows up in the initial "inc_vers" command. One build ended with "Termination code 138", another with a segmentation violation. Next, I built it with "CANT_LOAD" defined to tell temacs not to try to dump in the lisp code. The unloaded version works, for the most part, but info mode can't find the top node and therefore won't work. The top level info file appears on the screen, but the initial --TEXT-- ... ... ^_ stuff is on the screen too, and none of the mode commands work. Elisp says something like "bad stringp - nil". Note that I built 18.55 on my own SysV386 3.2 system from the same source with no problems, and everything I've tried there works fine, including info mode. Info mode is important to me because I'm new to using emacs and I'd like to have the on-line doc access that info mode provides. The PROBLEMS file suggests that inadequate page space could be the problem, but the PS/2 I'm building emacs on has 8 megs of page space, and I did the build with no other activity on the system. If anyone out there has been able to do a "proper, normal" build under AIX PS/2 1.1, with correct runtime behavior afterward, I'd really appreciate hearing how you did it. Thanks. John Rossmann (uunet!synsys!john)