sin and cos aren't available on some architectures. This was discussed a 
while back, the error is of course illegal instruction.
--Chuck

At 12:03 AM 8/31/00 +0100, Christian Groessler wrote:


>Hi,
>
>On 08/30/2000 11:25:50 AM GMT griffioena wrote:
> >
> >> Loading float-sup...
> >> gmake[1]: *** [emacs] Illegal instruction (core dumped)
> >> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> >>
>`/net/scharfzahn/pkgsrc-cvs/netbsd-pkgsrc/editors/emacs/work.vax/emacs-20.7
> >> /src'
> >> gmake: *** [src] Error 2
> >> *** Error code 2
> >> --------------
> >
> >Ah.. You're probably running out of memory. Datasize is set to 16Mb on the
>VAX
> >by default.  Elm on my box choked in the same way when reading a huge
>mailbox.
> >
> >Try setting the datasize ulimit to 24Mb (biggest it will go). Might fix
>your
> >problem.
>
>This didn't help.
>
>But I removed the loading of float-sup.el in loadup.el, and without
>loading float-sup, emacs installs fine.
>
>There seems to be a problem with floating point somewhere....
>
>Newbie question: Why is 24MB the max. value to set the data size to?
>
>regards,
>chris