emacs install on 4D/120 under 3.3.1

Ken Chin-Purcell ken at ab.msc.umn.edu
Fri Dec 14 01:55:19 AEST 1990


mason at freedom.msfc.nasa.gov (Jim Mason) writes:
....I am trying to install emacs-18.55 on an IRIS 4D/120GTX (IRIX 3.3.1).
....When the build-install script gets to the
....
....	./temacs -batch -l inc-vers
....
....the system complains that it runs out of memory/swap space. 

There is a recursion problem with the getcwd call in emacs.
At the end of the header file s-iris3-6.h append:

/* needed under irix 3.3 */
#define HAVE_GETWD

And build away!  BTW, Epoch needs the same fix.

-- 
--  Ken



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