compiling emacs for 486 mulinux

compiling emacs for 486 mulinux

[Jonathan Kurtz]

Hi followers!

I've used emacs before and like to install it on a IBM Thinkpat with a
486 200 MB HD, 12 MB RAM. I've installed mulinux on it, and I'm trying
to compile emacs on a different machine (SUSE 7.X, Pentium) cause
there isn't enough space on the lapi :)
The created emacs executable for the 386 is about 5 MB and after
transfer to mulinux the error seems to be:
emacs: not found. 
Does anyone know this frightening problem?
I need my emacs!

thx,
joni)

Re: compiling emacs for 486 mulinux

[Ulrich Herbst]

Jonathan Kurtz wrote:

> The created emacs executable for the 386 is about 5 MB and after
> transfer to mulinux the error seems to be:
> emacs: not found.

Have you: 
- chmod +x emacs ?
- Is this emacs in your Path or have you started it with /full/path/to/emacs
?

Uli

Re: compiling emacs for 486 mulinux

[Jonathan Kurtz]

Hi!

thank you for reply. 
> Have you: 
> - chmod +x emacs ?
> - Is this emacs in your Path or have you started it with /full/path/to/emacs
> ?
yes, I did.
still I'm getting this error:
/root/emacs: not found 

anyone know what I'm missing?

thank you,
joni)

Re: compiling emacs for 486 mulinux

[Stefan Monnier]

> thank you for reply. 
>> Have you: 
>> - chmod +x emacs ?
>> - Is this emacs in your Path or have you started it with /full/path/to/emacs
>> ?
> yes, I did.
> still I'm getting this error:
> /root/emacs: not found 

> anyone know what I'm missing?

It's built using a different version of libc (or of ld.so, most likely).
The `not found' message is probably confusingly referring to
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 or something like that.


        Stefan

Re: compiling emacs for 486 mulinux

[Jonathan Kurtz]

Stefan Monnier chiseled very nicely in
news:<jwvism5i9ij.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@vor.iro.umontreal.ca>:

Hi!

thank you again :)
figured it out on weekend myself:
ldd /root/emacs
ldd: can't execute emacs (No such a file or directory)

> > still I'm getting this error:
> > /root/emacs: not found 
>  
> > anyone know what I'm missing?
> 
> It's built using a different version of libc (or of ld.so, most likely).
> The `not found' message is probably confusingly referring to
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 or something like that.
you were right. :(

Does anybody know where to get that old libs on the internet? I need
them in kernelversion 2.0.36 (mulinux) for recompiling emacs again -
and to put the whole thing back on mulinx.
Well I'll try to recompile emacs with mulinux's libc.so.5.4.13,
ld-linux.so.1, libncurses.so.3.0 and libc.so.5 - but without libm.so,
compiling will probably fail. [1]
I'll post again, if it worked -

thx,

joni)

[1] maybe I was looking in the wrong place: it's either in /usr/lib,
nor in /lib