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#1 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 08:34 AM

I've got a a freshly installed OSR 5.0.6 system, and an old one, for
which the Skunkware emacs and xemacs stopped working after the rs506a,
oss646c, gwxlibs-2.1.0Ba, and other patches.

I can live with my manually compiled xemacs, but I'd prefer emacs (due
to familiarity: I prefer its handling of RCS files and C indenting).
But getting a workable one, with SCO terminal settings, cleanly
compiled seems rather difficult. Has anyone got a good working emacs
for OSR 5.0.6 with all the updates?

Compiling the latest raw tarball, using the 'gnutools' package from
OSR 5.0.7, chokes on compiling 'maillock'.

#2 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 08:34 AM

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
> Compiling the latest raw tarball, using the 'gnutools' package from
> OSR 5.0.7, chokes on compiling 'maillock'.

It has to be unpleasant to be in the cold, alone, without any supportive
community, with a dead-ended system, hasn't it?

#3 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 08:34 AM

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I've got a a freshly installed OSR 5.0.6 system, and an old one, for
> which the Skunkware emacs and xemacs stopped working after the rs506a,
> oss646c, gwxlibs-2.1.0Ba, and other patches.
>
> I can live with my manually compiled xemacs, but I'd prefer emacs (due
> to familiarity: I prefer its handling of RCS files and C indenting).
> But getting a workable one, with SCO terminal settings, cleanly
> compiled seems rather difficult. Has anyone got a good working emacs
> for OSR 5.0.6 with all the updates?
>
> Compiling the latest raw tarball, using the 'gnutools' package from
> OSR 5.0.7, chokes on compiling 'maillock'.

OK, I got the emacs-21.3 up and running, by making sure that /usr/gnu/bin is
in my path before /bin (in order to get a working version of tar!), and using:

./configure --without-gcc

So it works, but Ctrl-G does not work over my Putty sessions to it. I'm not
sure if it's a keyboard and xterm setting issue, or it's a general flaw in
that compilation of Emacs, or what.

For various reasons, I'd also like to compile it statically instead of with
shared libraries, to ease porting it over to another box without the same
graphical libraries available. Has anyone gone through this?

#4 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 08:34 AM

Pepe wrote:
> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>> Compiling the latest raw tarball, using the 'gnutools' package from
>> OSR 5.0.7, chokes on compiling 'maillock'.
>
> It has to be unpleasant to be in the cold, alone, without any supportive
> community, with a dead-ended system, hasn't it?

Well, it's awkward to deal with an extremely legacy system with the company in
bankruptcy from filing fraudulent lawsuits against open source developers. It
has a chilling effect on development and on interest from open source
developers. If Richard Stallman knew I was doing this, he'd probably rant at
me. (I've known Richard casually for over 25 years.)

But this newsgroup has been quite good: it's why I ask questions here, and
give answers when I can. It's also good to post answers in well-worded, Google
searchable format.

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