Installing GNU emacs 18.55.3 on an SGI Personal Iris

[M. Guravage]

Has anyone else experienced difficulty installing GNU emacs 18.55.3 on
IRIX 3.2? Or phrased another way, has anyone succeeded and is willing
to give advice?

Compiling with the iris configuration file and including NeWS support,
the make terminates compiling NeWS.c with an error that SIGIO is
undefined. Sure enough, in the configuration file its definition is
commented out. Ignoring the wisdom of letting well enough alone, we
define SIGIO. This time everything compiles; but one obvious problem
is that moving the cursor one character moves it more than one
character width. The effect of moving to the end of a line is to move
the cursor well beyond the end of line.

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Michael A. Guravage                                    Email: michael at cwi.nl
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