From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can't build previous versions of Emacs? Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 13:17:38 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877d4gcr7g.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87ilo0s70s.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735f3d655.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <871quna9pc.fsf@gnus.org> <87v8rz5za9.fsf@gnus.org> <87y1wvo7ue.fsf@gnus.org> <87mtdaoggc.fsf@gnus.org> <877d4dtkkm.fsf@gnus.org> <87sfn1iaki.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23895"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , Stefan Kangas , Stefan Monnier , Ulrich Mueller , Eric Abrahamsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 16 13:18:40 2022 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 1oCfol-0005yZ-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2022 13:18:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46642 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oCfok-0007fF-MN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2022 07:18:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50440) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oCfny-0006yN-Hf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2022 07:17:50 -0400 Original-Received: from woodpecker.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:37580 helo=smtp.gentoo.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_CHACHA20_POLY1305:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oCfnv-0008Qk-0T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2022 07:17:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87sfn1iaki.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Sat, 16 Jul 2022 19:03:25 +0800") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=140.211.166.183; envelope-from=ulm@gentoo.org; helo=smtp.gentoo.org X-Spam_score_int: -41 X-Spam_score: -4.2 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 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:292203 Archived-At: >>>>> On Sat, 16 Jul 2022, Po Lu wrote: > Would anyone mind me getting emacs-23 and emacs-24 to build as well? > (Eventually, not now.) > I know how to do that, but the existing patches don't have copyright > papers, and the original authors are missing, so I will have to write > them from scratch. That sounds likes useless duplication of work. Why not start from https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/emacs-patches.git/tree/emacs instead? Some of these patches are backported from later Emacs versions, in which case the original commits are indicated in the header. Others are authored by me, and there are copyright papers for me on file.