Hi, Identified the issue !!. The problem is in getpt() function. By removing the following line in src/config.h and recompiling emacs, it works. #define HAVE_GETPT 1 This is a bug in clearcase and clearcase support informed that it is a know issue. Thanks folks, for lending your help. Sunil On 10/21/05, Sunil Yeddu wrote: > > I think the problem is with pt_chown on our system. > > $ ls -l /usr/libexec/pt_chown > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5236 Nov 7 2003 /usr/libexec/pt_chown > There is no execute permission !! It was removed due to some other reason. > I will get the permissions set correctly and then verify if the problem goes > away. > > Thanks, > Sunil > > On 10/20/05, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > > Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:03:54 -0700 > > > From: Sunil Yeddu > > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > > > Clearcase is a source control system. Like CVS. This whole problem is > > > happening only inside a clearcase view. > > > > No, ClearCase is _not_ just another source control system, and it > > surely isn't like CVS. To support dynamic views, ClearCase defines > > virtual filesystems, which AFAIK no other VC system does. It also > > does other virulent changes to the normal Unix environment; in > > particular, setting a view spawns a new shell. > > > > > This fact points out that there is some change in emacs-21.4. > > > > There were gazillions of changes between Emacs 20.7 and 21.4. Some of > > them somehow interact badly with the shell used by ClearCase and with > > your shell startup files. There's no way that we could help you > > unless you debug the problem(s) on your system and pinpoint the > > line(s) in your shell startup files that cause these error messages. > > When you post that information, it is reasonable to expect someone to > > come up with an idea how to fix the problem. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Help-gnu-emacs mailing list > > Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs > > > >