Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU!Beebe From: Beebe@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU ("Nelson H.F. Beebe") Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vms Subject: Re: Trouble with emacs 18-54 Message-ID: Date: 9 May 89 00:37:48 GMT References: Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 14 If you are satisfied with 18.52 GNU Emacs, there is an executable version in the backup file on miriam.utah.edu. My compilations here of 18.52 went relatively trouble free. One problem that people hit is where the .h files are. can be found if you have a appropriate logical name SYS defined; the VMS C Programmer's Manual describes it. I don't trust VMS C at all, so I'd turn off all optimization (remember that VMS compilers tend to have /optimize as the default), and turn on symbol and traceback information: cc /nooptimize /debug=(symbols,traceback) ... -------