From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Earl Kent Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Source and compiling instructions for old version of Emacs (< 19.x) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:11 -0700 Message-ID: <4A735183.2050006@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040503080002060402060103" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249071633 27967 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 20:20:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:20:33 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 31 22:20:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWyaY-0002HZ-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:20:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42455 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWyaX-0000Hs-Sw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:20:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWyYw-0007M3-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWyYs-0007Ke-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44101 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWyYs-0007KV-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f205.google.com ([209.85.219.205]:42452) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWyYs-0001Lu-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: by ewy1 with SMTP id 1so2075533ewy.31 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type; bh=23ZsYxNkVWqNRkOGA4B5cyr6fNb1OJEykoqoCaBDWZg=; b=DxP3S/W5hEyHBD6Ddy0iufMxsYCWsEw1izJ8nqsAM5cpEooVrkZXRKX7Y5pY5YA81g fjdrXwcqMuWy9XzuRtT40sf9H0I5qpjSdumfDjzFJCnJu9V5EG0uXnVczxm6stLjcIv/ vthUCJUTunwIzIuynMMh19AF3UarXh0D+L/6M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type; b=S/iadN2xKNY8EYUI882d4HZdjK3yalFu77YSE+tGRaPuTZh3TV51vfLs8dA5WVOxyr 35xLa6wdoBdrJWxZ5ruXyTkhV/wYjVFs9xhD7CaENrkTtOoZGPzXiwy6TK7HKHVe+TUL K+glyoOvimmgGCxXwMAKhGIp1hkIQ9ScfRCaU= Original-Received: by 10.210.92.5 with SMTP id p5mr1413680ebb.24.1249071512298; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?192.168.1.107? (c-76-102-196-142.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [76.102.196.142]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm3076860eyx.3.2009.07.31.13.18.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:31 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113481 Archived-At: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040503080002060402060103 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm working on some research projects on the history of text editor technologies and more generally the early days of the free software movement. As part of that research I would like to compile, on a contemporary Linux distribution, runnable, early versions of the code, say circa `88. I've looked all over the Internet the only early version of emacs I can find is of 18.59, which is already 1992. Does anyone know of earlier versions and have instructions/scripts/patches for compiling it for Linux? (Even early versions of 19.x took a lot of hacking for me to get up and running and I still can't 18.59 to run without seg-fault on startup.) Editorial: the initial releases of the GNU system, written largely by Stallman, stand as one of the great intellectual accomplishments of the 20th century, not just of hackerdom, but really across all human endeavors. Not having compilable, runnable versions of them, or even the source code, makes them in some sense lost works, even as their derived works, current Emacs, and inspired works, all modern editors, flourish. On aspect of my research is to set up a project to keep these things runnable on latest versions of Linux with as little patching as possible. Thanks for any help ore pointers to others who have worked on this! --------------040503080002060402060103 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="earl_kent.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="earl_kent.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Earl Kent n:Kent;Earl email;internet:earl.kent@gmail.com tel;work:415.596.2053 x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------040503080002060402060103--