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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: [NetBSD-0.9] GNU Emacs 1[8,9].* unexec/dumping problems Message-ID: <CHDvMD.8oM@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <2dj4bp$n8@Tut.MsState.Edu> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 01:18:13 GMT Lines: 14 In article <2dj4bp$n8@Tut.MsState.Edu> cctony@sunvis1.vislab.olemiss.edu (Tony Reynolds) writes: >My Net9 system (FTP'd from Agate) will compile emacs and dump it, >but the resulting unexec'd/dumped binary isn't executable. The >same source tree compiled/dumped on a Net8 system will be dump properly. This is certainly a Frequently Asked Question. The default a.out format has changed in 0.9. You can either tell the linker to produce an old-style a.out, or tell emacs about the new format by adding "#define A_TEXT_OFFSET(HDR) sizeof (HDR)" to the s- file or config.h. -- Richard --