GNU emacs and ptys

[Richard Kuhns]

Scenario: (At home) 3b1 running 3.51m + the `freely distributable' pty
driver.  I compiled GNUemacs (18.55) using gcc v1.37 (except for one file),
with HAVE_PTYS defined.  It works perfectly -- I love it!

Problem:  At work, a 3b1 running 3.51m + Wollongong's TCP/IP (which
includes pseudo-ttys).  The binary I created at home doesn't work -- as
soon as I start something that uses ptys, emacs ignores everything except
^G.  I thought that I might need to #define SYSV_PTYS, but that causes an
attempt to #include <sys/pty.h>, which isn't one of the include files
supplied by the TCP/IP software.

Any suggestions?  For what it's worth, I found the same problem on a
3B2/400 with Wollongong's TCP/IP, but since that machine isn't used for
much anymore I didn't try very hard to fix it (read: not at all ;-).

Rich Kuhns
newton.physics.purdue.edu!sawmill!rjk