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From: lauri@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA ("Lauri A. Szklut")
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Trying to install emacs on VMS 4.5
Message-ID: <8712111835.AA15816@mitre-bedford.ARPA>
Date: 11 Dec 87 18:35:27 GMT
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I'm sending this question to this bulletin board in addition to
vms-gnu-emacs because I get the impression that no one reads
vms-gnu-emacs.

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I am trying to install GNU Emacs on a VAX 8700 and VAX 11/785 cluster
running VMS 4.5.  The problem is when I execute [.src]build.com.  I
get the following error message after it loads a couple of lisp files
(it dies right after it loads simple.el):

	Invalid read syntax:  "] in a vector"

The only problems I encountered until this point are:

	1.  The aforementioned bug check when compiling LREAD.C.  I 
	used the /NOOPT qualifier to resolve that.

	2.  SETVBUF is undefined in module SYSDEP when I execute
	LINK.COM.  I don't see how this would have any effect on my
	system, but I could be wrong.

Other than that, everything proceeded as normal thus far.  Has anyone
else encountered this problem?  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

Lauri Szklut



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