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From: Todd.Williamson@IUS4.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [NetBSD 0.9] - gnu-emacs compile? HELP!
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 18:33:36 EDT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Okay.  This may be a FAQ, but I've looked at all of the FAQ's I can think to
look at, and the PROBLEMS file that comes with the distribution, and I still
can't get it to work.

I'm running NetBSD 0.9 on a 486DX266 motherboard.  I downloaded the 19.19
gnu-emacs distribution from prep.ai.mit.edu.  I ran 
"configure i386-foo-386bsd", then gmake MAKE=gmake, then I had to fix
a few things in the config.h file like "#define HAVE_MKDIR" and
"#define HAVE_XSCREENNUMBEROFSCREEN" to get it to compile finally.

temacs runs fine, but the file that gets dumped as emacs isn't an
executable (it gives me the error "emacs: 1: Syntax error: word
unexpected (expecting ")")").  

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?  I'd be just as happy if someone could
provide me with an emacs executable...

Thanks,

-Todd.