Re: 21.1.13 build problems (minor) on Tru64 Unix

KO> A couple of minor problems building 21.1.13. Configuration command: KO> configure --without-gcc --with-gnu-make '--cflags=-fast -std' --with-site-lisp --site-includes=/usr/local/include I ported 21.2 to DEC C on Tru64 4.0, but didn't consider it important enough to backport to 21.1, partly because gcc works. I am interested in getting access to Tru64 5.0, if you could make that possible. KO> First, configure refuses to recognize V5.0, so I had to build on an KO> old V4.0e system. You could try giving configure an explicit CONFIGURATION argument, like alphaev56-dec-osf4.0e If you have the time, try building 21.1.13 with gcc, and 21.2.40 with DEC C. KO> Second, I regex.c would not compile. Type mismatch for alloca. I KO> edited regex.c and modified line 289 which was "char *alloca" to "void KO> *alloca". That was the only compiling problem, but it failed several KO> times in building the finder database. For some reason about 5 files KO> in my /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/list directories had 640 KO> protections, so could not be read. I'm baffled as to what happened KO> there, but I chmoded them and the build completed. KO> Note that the regex problem was the only compile problem I had using KO> Tru64 C compiler. Is *alloca normally a char? Seems like void is what KO> it should be. I'd try logging into my FreeBSD system and seeing how KO> it's typed there, but the ＠Home connection seems to be down at the KO> moment. :-( You're right. Fix is already in 21.2. KO> In any case, it looks pretty good. I really should have built from CVS KO> before the release so the regex.c could have been patched. Sorry. KO> Is there any hope of config.guess ever being updated to handle Tru64 KO> UNIX V5? (Yes, I realize that this is not really an XEmacs issue.) What does 21.2's config.guess do?