Subject: Re: cannot install emacs
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 08/31/2000 17:41:27
On 08/31/2000 02:06:52 PM GMT Anders Magnusson wrote:
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>> On 08/30/2000 11:17:06 PM GMT Chuck McManis wrote:
>> >
>> >sin and cos aren't available on some architectures. This was discussed
a
>> >while back, the error is of course illegal instruction.
>> >--Chuck
>>
>> Hmm, I don't understand completely. Why does the
>> compiler generate these opcodes? Were wrong compiler
>> switches in use?
>>
>VAX CPUs with all instructions implemented are very rare; normally some
>of the instructions need to be emulated. In this case it is the POLYD
>instruction that is missing. There is emulation code for this insn
>available now but you probably have a too old kernel.

I'm running 1.5E, do I have to specify a config option to the
kernel config file?
Btw, I disabled all CPUs in the config file except for KA46 (which
the install kernel reported).

regards,
chris