Subject: Re: xemacs and netbsd
To: None <shigeki@mediawars.or.jp>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/25/1998 00:15:37
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 23:05:03 +0900, Shigeki Uno wrote:
> 
> This may be a off-topic, but I need your help. As you know, I'm a user
> of emacs-20 and it works fine. No problem.  But I want to use
> xemacs-20, so I've been tring to build xemacs-2*.* and never ever
> succeeded in compiling it. Every time about 3 hours later (version
> 20.4 with mule took 8 hours... It takes too much time!) since starting
> configure and make, it stopped and error occurs as usual.

You could try the package xemacs-20 (or whatever the latest version in
pkgsrc), although my experience with xemacs-20 is less than
satisfactory.  Especially it would die on me with "Memory Exhausted"
message after certain amount of normal use.  I just gave up on it and
went back to emacs-20, instead.

> % make
> 
> (about 3 or 4 hours later)
> 
> <snip>
> Loading /home/shigeki/xemacs-21.0/lisp/loadhist.elc... (2372)
> Loading /home/shigeki/xemacs-21.0/lisp/loaddefs.elc... (372)
> Loading site-load... (276)
> Finding pointers to doc strings...
> Finding pointers to doc strings...done
> Dumping under the name xemacs
> Purespace usage: 744024 of 744024 (100%).
> *** Error code 1

This suggests that you need to allocate more purespace.  How, I'm not
quite sure.

> mc68030(LC520)

Although it looked pretty cool, Xemacs-20 was unbearably slow on a
68040@40MHz with 48Mbytes of RAM.  I wouldn't even try to run it on a
68030 at any clock rate.

Ken