Hello, group!
I'm doing a contract now in a peculiar environment (to put it mildly). It doesn't have emacs, or even nano installed on AIX 7.1, and lacks a lot of open source tools, which I came to rely on for decades. I'm hurt the most by the absence of emacs. Naturally I don't have root privileges, and can't use RPM, installp and such.
So I took the path outlined in this post of 10 years ago, of installing in my local directory (~/opt/freeware/* in my case)
https://help-gnu-emacs.gnu.narkive.com/Nne2MICO/installing-emacs-binaries-in-non-standard-location
Which went more or less as described in that post, except that I had to find and locally install a few missing libraries. Alas, emacs-nox 26.3 is still unhappy:
1. I have libiconv.a, which doesn't contain libiconv.so.2, required by emacs-nox
2. I have libintl.a, which doesn't contain libintl.so.9, required by emacs-nox
3. libxml12.a has been linked with absolute path /opt/freeware/lib , to which I don't have access.
I found the missing shared libraries on the net, but they were in the .I format, and I don't have the rights to run installp, so I'm stuck with 1. and 2. As for 3, I guess that hardcoded linking of the emacs executable with the copy in my local directory will help, but I haven't tried that yet, and would be grateful for suggestions.
Would the learned group please help?
TIA,
--Anatol
P.S. I don't care about the latest and greatest emacs version - the one from 10 - 15 years ago would do just fine.
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Anatol
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