From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can't build previous versions of Emacs? Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 18:30:57 +0300 Message-ID: <83edyms89a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877d4gcr7g.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87ilo0s70s.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735f3d655.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <871quna9pc.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14769"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rrandresf@hotmail.com, raman@google.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org, ulm@gentoo.org, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 15 17:32:55 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oCNJG-0003dI-Vq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2022 17:32:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56268 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oCNJF-0003zZ-Fr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oCNHS-00036d-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34936) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oCNHR-0000Yp-Fj; Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:31:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=ZdvJTCB/eXYmzfetcbMgvcSkvctZRv4ZubILl4s8Nlc=; b=SoQGQXcCA4clFP+oiuFL NJT2cBOrUvv+o/96Ym3oJ7krKZDstlfqDZgXKEqcOVSTZHRj3TNz7mvul4ajI1fqknZNJEO9J8Qmi K5i4F5Ibpv1Lv9Z61o0j6QMsWldpgafN+KyZbuL2ENFeHbtb1ZSHNNY5AymoOGZEhOTeWBGLdrCx+ Zb9/mJHcKMZK56T5phUAPnk6Xw6eHqlqVQNLXyht2sOEspAv1P+Q/tmT0OG/O5GcvlF1WmKyL1Q1R t7X+GX8CGgjLHirDd/N79UKPokCEdst2SM6MI/L6ZwLcFmQ2FsupeAw9ki10hYeLkf4Rfbumbb2mr GaXtE7eRL7NU1Q==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3695 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oCNHQ-0000c6-TA; Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:31:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 15 Jul 2022 07:50:20 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:292191 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 07:50:20 -0700 > Cc: Stefan Monnier , > Lars Ingebrigtsen , > Ulrich Mueller , Eric Abrahamsen , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > andrés ramírez writes: > > > JIC. If You want to try emacs-20 right now. You try in on netbsd. netbsd > > guys still compile and have a packaged emacs-20. > > > > If You want to try emacs-23. Ulrich and the gentoo guys have a heavily > > patched emacs-23 version still compiling on latest gentoo. And they also > > have an emacs18 still compiling too. > > How about installing such patches on the release branches, so that it is > easy to build them on recent machines? > > It might even indirectly help with bisecting really old bugs by giving > an idea of which patches might be needed to get various versions to > build. AFAIU only if you install on a single branch emacs-NN, and then merge from it to emacs-NN+1, from there to emacs-NN+2, etc. Which AFAICT not what was actually done.