From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Precompiled Emacs Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:29:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87bo20ufsj.fsf@engster.org> References: <87wqkpxnrm.fsf@gmail.com> <5276C383.4020009@gmx.net> <87txfsfuaf.fsf@gmail.com> <87y554e6ei.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <871u2we20g.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87iow8ukah.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383593394 9159 80.91.229.3 (4 Nov 2013 19:29:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 19:29:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 04 20:29:58 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VdPqY-0003vj-Bf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:29:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51677 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPqX-0004IA-VL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:29:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38253) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPqD-0004GE-DA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:29:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPq6-0008IU-1v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:29:37 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPq5-0008II-Qz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:29:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPq3-0002lY-E2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:29:27 +0100 Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-059-158.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.59.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:29:27 +0100 Original-Received: from deng by dslc-082-083-059-158.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:29:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslc-082-083-059-158.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:2E8EhYaOrqGLUKXN8ZCYyoB308Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94327 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > I didn't compile anything. Just installed Debian's emacs19, emacs20, > emacs21, emacs22, ... Ah OK. You already mentioned that you can only install major versions this way and not different point releases, but unfortunately I need Emacs 23.2... I guess I could install the 'emacs' from oldstable and compile 23.4 by hand (which is the version from current stable). > Indeed, some of those could required non-trivial work to compile them on > current systems Well, I was surprised to see that compiling Emacs 23.2 is already a problem, given that it was released in 2010, which isn't *that* old, and Debian isn't exactly what one would call a bleeding edge distribution. -David