GNU Emacs compiling/executable.

[Alex Woo RAC]

In article <27671.2781e39b at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> arritt at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>.. and MANY other posters to comp.sys.sgi, have had discussions along the
>    lines of:
>
>> 
>> j>    Does anybody know a site where I can ftp executable GNU Emacs?  I tried
>> j>    to compile source on our 4D but so far no luck.
>> 
>> j> You don't say which version of Gnu Emacs you tried to compile...  
>
>[and so forth...]
>
>For as long as I've been following this group, troubles installing
>GNU EMACS have been a recurring problem.  So many people have had problems
>with this (including myself) that availability of the executables would
>save a significant amount of person-months throughout Netland.  
>
>Any volunteers?  (My own installation doesn't work right...)  Could SGI 
>do this without running afoul of GNU's copyright / license policy?  


There is an executable version of TeX (although not up-to-date) on
vgr.brl.mil.  How about such a distribution of GNU EMACS, gdb, gcc,
kcl, and g++?  Such executable distributions are very common for
VMS systems.  It would be nice if SGI would put these executables
in sgi.com:~ftp/pub.

Alex Woo
woo at ames.arc.nasa.gov

P.S.  Does anyone have a ftp'able executable of the UNIX TeX 3.x
distribution?   Even with a lot of network hints, I have not been
able to get the labrea version to pass the trip tests.
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