From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Difficulty building older Emacsen: characters seemingly fouling things up. Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 23:47:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpz62c9j.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> References: <20150606142204.GC3418@acm.fritz.box> <83twuknap7.fsf@gnu.org> <83sia4nafd.fsf@gnu.org> <87sia4g99z.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <20150614192244.GA5796@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434318477 608 80.91.229.3 (14 Jun 2015 21:47:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 21:47:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 14 23:47:43 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4Fkl-0006b9-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 23:47:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4Fkk-0004oy-HZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38167) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4Fkh-0004ot-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:47:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4Fke-0004ON-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:47:39 -0400 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:53049) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4Fkd-0004N1-NY; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:47:35 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=2UVGKWRHYRsbcReVCL1FQ/W4Ny+R/y5BQ02acTPbgqg=; b=dvZqqnOL9eGuDJfsmn8a0o5ve+nn2NNZlCbCSNnZsrTBCU3rG4oJu4y3mEgZALelOcarBk3Cg5kGe/9y0YTxR7r/1JbFAZleUMZE1R45aj1MbmDKABO6/Sx17V2UHxsf; Original-Received: from ip4d152b77.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([77.21.43.119] helo=isaac.fritz.box) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4FkW-0006Mg-PT; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 23:47:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20150614192244.GA5796@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 14 Jun 2015 19:22:44 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.45.97.173 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187164 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: >> Building older Emacsen can be quite frustrating. I think I also had >> problems with linking crt1.o or somesuch when creating older Emacs >> binaries for the Buildbot. > > I've managed successfully to rebuild 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 23.2, 23.3, > and 24.2. The more recent versions were OK anyway. On what system are you compiling? > 23.4 (which builds OK, but freezes with 100% CPU at startup) I dimly remember that one - newer libglib made Emacs 23 freeze on startup. See for instance https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666714 If you really care for Emacs 23.4, then I guess you could try patching xgselect.c (I guess b05725233b might do the trick). I simply installed the Debian 7 emacs23 package, which happens to be 23.4. :-) -David