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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!cass.ma02.bull.com!petra!news.bbn.com!olivea!charnel!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!fauern!imp.ch!chsun!bernina!torda From: torda@igc.ethz.ch (Andrew Torda) Subject: Re: Where can I get NetBSD ports of emacs,tcsh? Message-ID: <CDC51w.268@bernina.ethz.ch> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: hermitage Organization: Computational Chemistry, ETH, Zuerich References: <1993Sep9.024434.28050@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <CDAC3y.LF1@sztaki.hu> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 08:32:19 GMT Lines: 17 pink@fsz.bme.hu wrote [...] >I suppose you are talking about NetBSD-0.9. [...] >Emacs sucks more, because ( of the changes in a.out i think ) it cannot dump >itself. Tinker with unexec.c! I have succeeded to make it produce xemacs with >at least a valid exec header, but it doesen't work. I didn't have time to study >the new a.out format, maybe someone! Isn't it possible to have emacs not to dump >itself, but to compile the lisp files every time? (slow like hell.) >BTW i mean emacs 18.58, i don't have spare MB's for later monsters. :-( . Try -Xlinker -Z then it dumps fine. -Andrew -- Andrew Torda, Computational Chemistry, ETH, Zurich, torda@igc.ethz.ch