XEmacs again (Was: Re: Alpha problems)
Juhana Helovuo wrote:
> Yes, there was a post by Kristoffer Rose:
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-alpha-9808/msg00121.html
>
> He has made a set of patches for XEmacs 20.4 and binaries for
> debian-alpha. I downloaded his packages and had some success with
> them. Prepackaged xemacs-mule seems to work ok, but I cannot test that
> properly now, because of the mess with xbase and xbase-clients
> -packages, most importantly xauth is missing.
>
> Anyway, Kristoffer's xemacs-mule works for me, but xemacs-nomule only
> gives a segfault and core dump. Gdb complains that it cannot find any
> symbols when I try to examine the core file.
Oops, this is the same for me: xemacs-20.4-nomule dumps core.
> I also tried compiling xemacs-20.4 myself with Kristoffer's patches.
> Two patch hunks were rejected, but I think I managed to apply them by
> hand. Compilation goes fine up to the linking of (pure?)
> temacs-binary. After linking there is the temacs-binary (over 8M in
> size), but it does not seem to be executable. Attempts to run it fail
> with "No such file or directory". I think this is very strange.
The patches should not fail!
I will recompile once I can compile again on this system (presently the
compilation fails with an Xemacs "out of symbols" error).
Cheers,
Kristoffer
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