From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Precompiled Emacs Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:14:43 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <87bo20ufsj.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383596124 19341 80.91.229.3 (4 Nov 2013 20:15:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 20:15:24 +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 21:15:27 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 1VdQYY-0000RZ-H3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:15:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdQYX-0007Tz-Mk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:15:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdQYF-0007Of-JJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:15:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdQY6-0005U8-DO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:15:07 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47931) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdQY6-0005Tw-6N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:14:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VdQY2-0007mV-Qc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:14:54 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-196-188-221.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.188.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:14:54 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-188-221.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:14:54 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-188-221.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AuFqlOXuvaDDKTI4E4r1l51PyYg= 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:94330 Archived-At: > 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). You can probably find a Debian package for 23.2 in the snapshot archives. >> 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. Crazy, eh? Stefan