From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Kaludercic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Old (static) builds of Emacs Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 21:21:51 +0000 Message-ID: <87ilw9l4pc.fsf@posteo.net> References: <877dfavmzw.fsf@posteo.net> <87y278ieeh.fsf@posteo.net> <875yu9pb9u.fsf_-_@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15188"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 30 22:23:06 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msAag-0003kc-J4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:23:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49302 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msAaf-0002AC-Eh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:23:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43826) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msAZk-0001U0-HE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:55911) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msAZf-0004L4-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:22:05 -0500 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9AD84240029 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:21:52 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1638307312; bh=Ln5/SoBCDP4Rv7jE8ngiYPKmd6LFB8sgNGiAa0xwrIc=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:From; b=BI9/vKxaxWVIlKvN0IK2+49/Tew6X6gGsGXZGEPbsVmgOxiYVlODvp0eKXOw816zL VdkduyRw0X+Q2ia40swrBLnqBKOWMEs7Wm/ZK3aOu5SrQCV8VIoMaipsQ7Wh8z4Je8 H9ZZFjsbBy8Er6BU7k03ElwbLuqTgY5Pn2/xWBnPgnSI+8ivJ6IgeOwoLs5sJr0+Zn AxYyad2ax513bHcddq95tyEQIFmX/W9wtCxUFlKl2c4v/Ucwp9PCCBMYdfH6GM2OEE vUH9ix6m4aWdrMcfW82UrhJEQ8W5luxiNw2CeRiRCkjPmvpqhxyM/SC0SWXmF1Ik3I NHuSAovHySJkQ== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4J3Zsq4KXQz6tqg for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:21:51 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <875yu9pb9u.fsf_-_@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:03:09 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.65; envelope-from=philipk@posteo.net; helo=mout01.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280560 Archived-At: I have tried using GNU Guix to build old versions of Emacs, and it seems to work well up until 24.5. It seems something was changed in glibc (?) that necessitated a change in Emacs, if I understand correctly. Does anyone remember what happened here, so that I can patch these versions (or would it be easier to build an old version of Glibc)? Philip Kaludercic writes: > Until now I have only been able to test the library using Emacs 27.2 and > Emacs 28.0.50/60. This doesn't seem like enough for a library that > actually targets older versions of Emacs. > > My question is therefore: Does anyone know where to download old Emacs > builds? I have tried building 24.x and 25.x on my system, but it seems > (?) that changes in glibc prevent this from being done. > > So before I have to set up virtual machines with older distributions, I > was wondering if anyone knew of an archive with pre-build, preferably > static, Emacs builds. > > Philip Kaludercic writes: > >> Hello again, >> >> I have been working on compat.el over the last week, and have written a >> number of tests. The source code has been uploaded here: >> >> https://git.sr.ht/~pkal/compat >> >> The library should be usable in it's current state, but I'd be >> interested to hear from other people and developers too. There might be >> missing functions or macros, edge cases that could be added to the >> tests, etc. that could be improved. -- Philip Kaludercic