Re: Backporting changes into emacs-23 prior to pretest

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

>>>>> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Chong Yidong wrote:

> In preparation for the Emacs 23.3 pretest, I'd like to ask everyone
> if there are any specific parts of the trunk you'd like to see
> backported. The 23.3 release will be mostly bugfixes, so significant
> new features will not be considered. However, updated "stable"
> versions of exsiting modes and packages should be acceptable.

Hi,
I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I'd like to suggest that the
--with-crt-dir configure option is backported. It fixes Bug 5655 [1],
and in Gentoo we apply it to emacs-23.2 (in our stable tree) since
May, without any problems.

Corresponding commits are 100020 to 100022 [2]. (I don't remember any
more if it applied to 23.2 without conflicts. So just in case, a
backported patch for 23.2 is here: [3])

Ulrich

[1] <http://debbugs.gnu.org/5655>
[2] <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/emacs/trunk/revision/100020>
    <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/emacs/trunk/revision/100021>
    <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/emacs/trunk/revision/100022>
[3] <http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/emacs/23.2/01_all_crt-dir.patch>