From:	margot AT astrosun DOT tn DOT cornell DOT edu (Jean-Luc Margot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Can I have gcc and make and emacs??
Date:	2 Dec 1996 17:33:40 GMT
Organization:	Cornell University
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Hi,

I am new to the world of djgpp.  I am basically very excited that this
port of gcc makes working with DOS less painful.

However, there are two annoying problems that came with my
installation of djgpp (OK, I confess I was in a hurry and I installed
ez-gcc, which uses BNU252BN.ZIP and GCC263BN.ZIP)

First, I cannot use my DOS version of emacs anymore (oemacs 4.1).  The
FAQ does mention this problem, but it does not offer any real solution.
Here is what I could find in revision 1.2 of the FAQ :

9.7   Q: When I run OEmacs, it dies with ``Unsupported DOS request''.
      A: OEmacs needs a special version of go32.  Make sure it is
         accessible to OEmacs before it finds the stock go32 on your PATH.

Has anybody found a way to have both emacs and gcc work
_satisfactorily_ under DOS (Yes, I can still start emacs from the
emacs/bin directory, but I am not happy about this solution)?  
I like gcc very much, but I am not willing to give up emacs...


Secondly, there is the emacs/make/gcc ``Not enough memory to run
go32'' problem.  Again, this is covered in the FAQ, but it did not
help much (I did look for another version of make, but the recommended
gnuish/ directory on SimTel does not exist) 

Has anybody found a version of make which allows to compile with gcc
while emacs is running?  I am _not_ willing to quit emacs and restart it
whenever I need to compile.  (I guess it must be pretty obvious by now
that I am used to a multitasking environment :-)


I guess people will tell me to upgrade to the most recent version
which solves the problems.  I will do that eventually, but I'd rather
find a quick fix for now.  Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks

Jean-Luc Margot

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