Emacs pretest 24.2.90

Emacs pretest 24.2.90

[Chong Yidong]

Emacs pretest 24.2.90 is now available for download via FTP, at the
following location:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-24.2.90.tar.gz

This is the first pretest for what will become Emacs 24.3, containing
both new features and bugfixes.  See etc/NEWS for a list of changes
since Emacs 24.2.

Please send me an email reporting success or failure on your build
platform.  Please report any bugs that you come across via
M-x report-emacs-bugs, or email bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
For questions, email emacs-devel@gnu.org.

Thank you for helping to test Emacs.

Re: Emacs pretest 24.2.90

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:13:46 +0800
> 
> Emacs pretest 24.2.90 is now available for download via FTP, at the
> following location:
> 
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-24.2.90.tar.gz

It wouldn't build on Windows because the file nt/emacs-x86.manifest is
missing from the tarball.  I fixed that in the emacs-24 branch.
People who build on Windows should copy the file from their bzr
sandbox.

Re: Emacs pretest 24.2.90

[Roland Winkler]

On Sat, Nov 24 2012, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Please send me an email reporting success or failure on your build
> platform.

I compiled Emacs successfully on the two systems described below. Yet I
was wondering: what information is generally useful here to characterize
"one's build platform"? I copied some information from buffers created
via `report-emacs-bug' - obviously a clumsy procedure. Could it
facilitate this process if there was a command `report-emacs-build' that
gathers the relevant information in a mail buffer, similar to
`report-emacs-bug'?
Possibly, a command `report-emacs-build-success' was really sufficient,
because build failures most often might deserve a bug report.


In GNU Emacs 24.2.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2012-11-24 on regnitz
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000
System Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS

In GNU Emacs 24.2.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2012-11-24 on lukas
System Description:     Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS

Re: Emacs pretest 24.2.90

[Chong Yidong]

Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org> writes:

> Yet I was wondering: what information is generally useful here to
> characterize "one's build platform"? I copied some information from
> buffers created via `report-emacs-bug' - obviously a clumsy
> procedure.

You can insert the Emacs version at point with C-u M-x emacs-version RET

RE: Emacs pretest 24.2.90

[Drew Adams]

> > Yet I was wondering: what information is generally useful here to
> > characterize "one's build platform"? I copied some information from
> > buffers created via `report-emacs-bug' - obviously a clumsy
> > procedure.
> 
> You can insert the Emacs version at point with C-u M-x 
> emacs-version RET

I too have sometimes used `report-emacs-bug', just to get the complete version
info.  Perhaps `C-u C-u' with `emacs-version' could provide that info?

I'm talking about the difference between these two (the first is from
`report-emacs-bug', and provides more info about the build):

1.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2012-11-26 on MS-W7-DANI
Bzr revision: 111014 monnier@iro.umontreal.ca-20121126195614-fwcm2hg6vt2fcn24
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.10/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.10/src
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/libpng-1.2.37-lib/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/zlib-1.2.5
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1-lib/include
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4-lib/include
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1-lib/include
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8-w32-bin/include/libxml2
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9-w32-bin/include
 -Ic:/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.9.2-1-lib/include'

2.
GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-11-26 on MS-W7-DANI

RE: Emacs pretest 24.2.90

[Roland Winkler]

On Mon Nov 26 2012 Drew Adams wrote:
> > > Yet I was wondering: what information is generally useful here to
> > > characterize "one's build platform"? I copied some information from
> > > buffers created via `report-emacs-bug' - obviously a clumsy
> > > procedure.
> > 
> > You can insert the Emacs version at point with C-u M-x 
> > emacs-version RET
> 
> I too have sometimes used `report-emacs-bug', just to get the
> complete version info. Perhaps `C-u C-u' with `emacs-version'
> could provide that info?
> 
> I'm talking about the difference between these two (the first is from
> `report-emacs-bug', and provides more info about the build):

My question is first: what information is possibly relevant or
helpful here?

I thought that the main purpose of emacs-version was to distinguish
the different (historical) versions of emacs. During the pretest of
a particular emacs version, this might not provide too much variety.

I guess under GNU linux the most basic information about the build
platform is provided by "lsb_release -d". report-emacs-bug includes
the output of this command.

But again: I don't know what is possibly most useful during a pretest.

Re: Emacs pretest 24.2.90

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:13:21 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> I too have sometimes used `report-emacs-bug', just to get the complete version
> info.  Perhaps `C-u C-u' with `emacs-version' could provide that info?
> 
> I'm talking about the difference between these two (the first is from
> `report-emacs-bug', and provides more info about the build):
> 
> 1.
> In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2012-11-26 on MS-W7-DANI
> Bzr revision: 111014 monnier@iro.umontreal.ca-20121126195614-fwcm2hg6vt2fcn24
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> Configured using:
>  `configure --with-gcc (4.7) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
>  -Ic:/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.10/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.10/src
>  -Ic:/emacs/libs/libpng-1.2.37-lib/include -Ic:/emacs/libs/zlib-1.2.5
>  -Ic:/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1-lib/include
>  -Ic:/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4-lib/include
>  -Ic:/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1-lib/include
>  -Ic:/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8-w32-bin/include/libxml2
>  -Ic:/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9-w32-bin/include
>  -Ic:/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.9.2-1-lib/include'
> 
> 2.
> GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-11-26 on MS-W7-DANI

You want system-configuration and system-configuration-options (they
are variables).  That is where report-emacs-bug gets the above.