Re: xemacs-21.5.9 fails to build on Itanium system

John> I have been trying to compile xemacs on my HP Itanium John> workstation (IA64). The build fails when attempting to John> execute xemacs The code is possibly not 64-bit clean. I don't think we have anybody building regularly on a 64-bit platform. I don't know about this personally; the likely person to deal with it just got back from a long vacation, so please be patient. For the moment, some things to try: Is it possible to build in 32-bit mode? Check the gcc command for "mixed mode" (ie, 32-bit and 64-bit) compilation. Have you tried XEmacs 21.4, which might be somewhat cleaner? Try --with-system-malloc; there are known to be issues with Doug Lea malloc as implemented in glibc. (Yes, you'll just get the glibc malloc again---the point is that "system malloc" is assumed to be very vanilla, with a malloc known to be DL malloc XEmacs tries to get fancy, and --with-system-malloc switches off that trickiness.) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.