> Thanks  for the help and background info... I haven't managed one other thing
> yet: Gnu Emacs-19.34. I had it patched for netbsd-1.2, and tried to compile
> it under the latest snapshot. It gives me a couple of undeclared symbol
> errors, and I'm not sure whether these should be defined by NetBSD or by
> Emacs (both don't). Here is part of the (cleaned up) compiler output:

There's an updated patch (for 19.34b) which includes ELF support in
ftp.netbsd.org:pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/ported-software.

With that patch applied, 19.34b configures, builds, and runs just fine
as far as i can tell:

90 [bunnahabhain] rdate % ls -la /usr/local/bin/emacs
-rwxr-xr-t  2 root  wheel  5926267 Mar 20 22:30 /usr/local/bin/emacs*
91 [bunnahabhain] rdate % ldd /usr/local/bin/emacs
/usr/local/bin/emacs:
         -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12
         -lX11.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
         -lICE.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6
         -lSM.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6
         -lXt.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
         -lXext.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6
         -lXmu.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6
         -lXaw.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6
         -ltermcap.0 => /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.0
         -lm.0 => /usr/lib/libm.so.0
92 [bunnahabhain] rdate % /usr/local/bin/emacs --version
GNU Emacs 19.34.1
93 [bunnahabhain] rdate % file /usr/local/bin/emacs
/usr/local/bin/emacs: sticky ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha, version 1

It even does the right stuff with all of the rpath specs, shared libs,
etc.


cgd