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- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!jhgrud!joe
- From: joe@MsElectron.com (Joe Kelsey)
- Subject: Re: Linking Emacs on ESIX System V 4.0.4 with X11R4 (Motif)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.174113.11380@MsElectron.com>
- Keywords: ESIX SVR4 s-esix5r4.h
- Organization: Ms. Electron, Inc.
- References: <1992Jul29.152354.29278@MsElectron.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:41:13 GMT
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- I have done more experimenting and found out even more interesting things.
- Emacs runs just fine in ``terminal'' mode (almost!), but not under X. One
- major problem relates to running emacs in an Xterm window. I suppose no one
- noticed the problems yet since, if you have X, you might as well run Emacs in
- its own window, but the problems seem to relate to problems with the SysVr4
- pty implementation. Apparantly, the Streams modules behave differently on the
- ``pts'' devices tahn on the other devices. The major problems happen because
- the c_cc structure still contains valid entries in most of the array elements,
- such as VDSUSP, VSTOP, etc. Also, SysVr4 uses the manifest constant VDSUSP
- rather than V_DSUSP, as the current sysdep.c assumes. Making some minor
- adjustments in init_tty_modes() allows emacs to run in an xterm window for the
- time being.
-
- I talked to the Esix people and they said that the new GUI tape should arrive
- at the dealers *soon* and that it includes some bug fixes to the general X
- libraries required to support the IXI Desktop stuff. I plan to wait for the
- new tape and retry my installation then. The person I talked to on the phone
- ran 18.57 compiled under 4.0.3a on 4.0.4 with no problems, so if you upgraded
- (instead of installing from scratch like me), no problems! He also compiled
- Emacs with gcc 1.40 rather than the ccs stuff. I guess my next step involves
- picking up either gcc 1.40 or maybe even 2.2.2 and see if I can get that
- running. Maybe gdb also so I don't have to suffer through sdb too much
- longer...
-
- I plan to post more as soon as I have more specifics.
-
- /Joe
-