Re: Xemacs 21.4.11 does not configure correctly and crashes at launch on AIX 5.1

Valdis, Mike, I (perhaps incorrectly) associate you guys with some AIX knowledge. Comments? BTW, thank you for your care in distinguishing between the AIX 4 and AIX 5 aspects of your report. Paul> 1) configure does not correctly assign a system header file, Paul> I had to add by hand the following string in config.h, Paul> otherwise in emacs.c the variable SYSTEM_TYPE was undefined: Paul> #define config_opsysfile "s/aix4-2.h" Paul> There is no aix5-1.h file in src/s. There probably needs to be one. Unfortunately, somebody with access to AIX 5 docs and a test system will have to write it. Paul> 2) After that the compilation was OK, except for the fact Paul> that ALL_SOURCE in config.h is already defined. Symptomatic of lack of AIX 5 support, I guess, but maybe it can be fixed without knowing much about AIX. Paul> 3) When I try to launch xemacs I get immediately a core Paul> dump: Paul> root＠feynman /usr/local/xemacs-21.4.11$ Fatal error: Paul> assertion failed, file specifier.c, line 2583, abort() This is bad. That code hasn't changed in years (only comments have been updated since release of 21.4), so I see no reason that it would abort there. You could try building 21.4.8 (because you know it works on AIX 4.3.3), but I bet you get the same result. We're more than happy to help with XEmacs-specific questions, but (as I wrote) we'll need a lot of input on the AIX-specific issues. -- 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.