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From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Annoucement :  C2ada for OS/2 !!
Date: 1996/04/08
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Ralph Paul wrote:
> 
> "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, a bug in my home POP-mail utility toasted the text
> > of both messages, so I can't post it here. But this seems like a
> > good place and time to request that the two kind folks I mentioned
> > please repeat here what they told me in e-mail earlier.
> try  mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de that is the author of
> emx/gcc/emacs/emtex . I think he was the one you gave the advice.

One of the two responses I got was from a germanic site as I recall.

> If I remember correctly he said that all you needed to do was to
> install the new emx-runtime ( emxrt.zip). Is this correct Ted ?

Well, if you just try to use emx-0.9b, some Ada programs will no 
longer link, so there was more to it than this. Are you saying that
the solution was to use the gnat's emx0.9a development, with the
emx0.9b "runtime" installed on top?

> 
> BTW: Did you get an error message complaining about the emx0.9a
> runtime ?

>From memory, what happened was:
  o  I installed the latest (3.01) version of GNAT for OS/2, with
     the limited emx0.9a distribution available at that same site.

  o  I installed the latest (19.30) version of emacs for OS/2. The
     installation procedure complained that emx0.9b is required, and
     bailed out.

  o  I uninstalled emx0.9a (and GNAT), downloaded and installed emx0.9b.

  o  I installed emacs. This time the procedure worked, and emacs 
     worked.

  o  I reinstalled the latest version of GNAT, and some of the 
     examples would no longer link.

  o  After several further hours of tinkering, I discovered that you
     have to go back to a pre-19.28 version of emacs, before it will
     work with GNAT's emx. For those of you who are keeping score, 
     the emacs-ada lisp bindings require modification to work with such
     an early version of emacs.

(if you have 8 hours or so to blow, feel free to try this at home
yourself).

-- 
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