From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rainer Orth Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9684: Emacs 23.3 and 24.0.90 don't build on IRIX 6.5 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:21:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83vcs2gg7o.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318343050 29903 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2011 14:24:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:24:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9684@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 11 16:24:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RDdFV-0002DE-Fm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:24:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60922 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDdFV-0003DV-1A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fortunately, I had a 9 years old copy of gcc 3.1 around, which was able to build both a working emacs 23.2 and 24.0.90 (from the tarball). I'll start digging deeper from here, but it may take a bit. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University