From: SMTP%"RELAY-INFO-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM" 29-AUG-1994 08:48:45.92 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Re: Emacs 19.22 on VMS VAX 6.1 From: LEVITTE@e.kth.se (Richard Levitte) X-Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Emacs 19.22 on VMS VAX 6.1 Date: 28 Aug 1994 05:24:11 GMT Lines: 35 Message-Id: Nntp-Posting-Host: eliza.e.kth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: tph@sbastc.ess.sunysb.edu's message of 25 Aug 1994 20:22:31 GMT To: Info-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET In article tph@sbastc.ess.sunysb.edu (Tom Hermitt) writes: I am having no luck building GNU Emacs on VAX VMS 6.1. I am using the distribution EMACS-19_22-19940806.TAR advertised in the GNU-ish VMS project from ftp://ftp.vms.stacken.kth.se/GNU-VMS/Beta. Hmm, have you subscribed to vms-emacs-testers@e.kth.se? creating [.src]descrip.mms %RENAME-E-SEARCHFAIL, error searching for DKB100:[KITS.EMACS-19_22.SRC]DESCRIP.N EW; -RMS-E-FNF, file not found %SET-F-SEARCHFAIL, error searching for DKB100:[KITS.EMACS-19_22.SRC]DESCRIP.MMS; -RMS-E-FNF, file not found %PURGE-W-SEARCHFAIL, error searching for DKB100:[KITS.EMACS-19_22.SRC]DESCRIP.MM S;* -RMS-E-FNF, file not found %DELETE-W-SEARCHFAIL, error searching for DKB100:[KITS.EMACS-19_22.SRC]JUNK.C;* -RMS-E-FNF, file not found %DELETE-W-SEARCHFAIL, error searching for DKB100:[KITS.EMACS-19_22.SRC]JUNK.I;* -RMS-E-FNF, file not found ... and so on ... You probably have the symbol EDIT defined. Until just recently, I didn't prevent the use of external symbols as verbs. The solution for now is to undefine the EDIT symbol, and any other that might disturb the functioning of the configure script. In the next update, things will be different. -- !++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++! ! Richard Levitte, GNU on VMS hacker ! tel: +46-8-83 12 15 ! ! Svdra Lenggatan 39, II ! fax: none for the moment ! ! S-171 49 Solna ! Internet: levitte@e.kth.se ! ! SWEDEN ! ! !--GNUish VMS--!