Re: xemacs-21.5.9 fails to build on Itanium system
>>>> "K" == Krishnakumar B <Krishnakumar>
writes:
K> On Monday, 27 January 2003, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John W Grove
<jgrove(a)lanl.gov> writes:
>
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.
K> Maybe it has to do with 64-bit little endian. I never saw an XEmacs package
K> for Linux/Alpha. Linux/IA64 is a similar beast.
I fixed all the 64-bit bugs in XEmacs on DecOSF/Alpha, and that
platform worked fine at least until March 2001, when I stopped regular
testing.