Re: newbie: just built emacs, it's core dumping.

[Kevin Rodgers]

Jay G. Scott wrote:
> i'm a newbie, but even for a newbie, i don't know much.
> to the point that if there's some simple thing i'm supposed
> to know, and should tell you about, i don't know what
> that thing is.
>
> i just built emacs-21.3.  i run it.  it writes the file.
> then it:
> on sparc:  seg faults
> on intel:  core dumps.
>
> the file is there.  but  if i try to byte-compile *.el
> files, the file gets written and instantly deleted.
>
> ahhh, yes, forgot:  solaris 9.  gcc.
>
>
> configure   --without-pop --x-includes=/usr/include \
>     --x-libraries=/usr/lib --without-toolkit-scroll-bars
>
> gcc 3.4.1
>
> what the heck am i doing wrong?

I don't know (I'm not an operating system specialist :-)

Here's how I installed Emacs 21.3 on my Solaris 9 x86 desktop:

# as root:
pkg-get install emacs

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Kevin Rodgers