From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Difficulty building older Emacsen: characters seemingly fouling things up. Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:46:58 +0000 Message-ID: <20150616174658.GA3403@acm.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> <87wpz62c9j.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434476814 2268 80.91.229.3 (16 Jun 2015 17:46:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:46:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 16 19:46:45 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 1Z4uwe-00026S-Bz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:46:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41777 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4uwd-000147-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:46:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58513) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4uwQ-00013q-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:46:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4uwL-0005vV-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:46:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:63238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4uwL-0005sp-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:46:25 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 1025 invoked by uid 3782); 16 Jun 2015 17:46:23 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p548A4A1E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.138.74.30]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:46:22 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7189 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jun 2015 17:46:58 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wpz62c9j.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.3 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:187217 Archived-At: Hello, David. On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:47:20PM +0200, David Engster wrote: > 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 It's good to know that it wasn't me making a mistake. > 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. :-) Thanks. I think I've got enough working versions (for testing) now, so I'll forget about 23.4, unless I specifically need it for something. > -David -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).