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From: Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT
Date: 2000/01/28
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Chris Morgan <cm@mihalis.net> writes:

> Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> 
> > Good point. I consider Emacs a quality product, but have you ever tried to
> > compile it from sources? I've done it 3 times now, and I'd take putting
> > together a 50 pice swing-set over that any day.
> 
> It depends on the tools you have around. Compiling it on
> out-of-the-box Solaris is probably still not that nice, 

Especially because it's lacking a C compiler, isn't it? ;)

Emacs is great to use, but the C sources are a mess: K&R compatible
(at least they that way), tons of #ifdef's in the actual code, no
clear separation between OS-specific and generic routines, colored
pointers, the undump feature---just to name the most awkward things.
I only tried once to built it on a not-yet supported system (some
bleeding-edge Linux variant), but quickly gave up.