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Subject:	ZILE 2.3.7 (very hard to build, needs weird hacks just to compile)
Date:	Tue, 7 Jul 2009 20:36:18 -0700 (PDT)
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I recently stumbled across the ZILE 2.3.7 text editor sources ("ZILE
Is Lossy Emacs"). I must've read an old old annoucement that bragged
about being "pure ANSI C", which is what got my hopes up. Ugh, how
wrong that is nowadays. Very very annoying to try to build, strange
errors that required weird hacks, etc. But I did finally get it to
build. I don't know why I bothered since GNU Emacs (and JASSPA
MicroEmacs) are so much superior, but hey, I like text editors, so I
figured one more couldn't hurt.   ;-)

I really need to try again from scratch and (weakly try to) pinpoint
exactly what goes wrong and figure out a clean way to fix it (instead
of the horribly braindead way I did it now). But anyways, if someone
wants my build (for comparison?), I can upload it or e-mail it to 'em.

Just FYI to all Emacs aficionados out there.   ;-)

http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/

P.S. In particular, ./configure couldn't find curses (and a few other
dumb errors), one include file that doesn't exist, some _rdtsc
duplicate definitions (why?) in lib/libgnu.a, some silly '\r' error in
GAWK script, and some other weird stuff (a few speckled mentions of
DOS-unfriendly signals). Doesn't quite compile as small as bragged
(344k vs. 130k alleged, but that's using GCC 4.4.0 -O2 and 2.04 beta,
so there's room for improvement, and it's approx. 160k UPX'd).

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