From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Precompiled Emacs Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:09:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83habs7wu5.fsf@gnu.org> 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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383595819 15604 80.91.229.3 (4 Nov 2013 20:10:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 20:10:19 +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 21:10:24 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 1VdQTd-0005DD-L2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:10:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdQTd-0005Hd-44 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdQTI-0005Fv-4l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdQT7-0002yN-W6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:09:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:44851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdQT7-0002uZ-HF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:09:49 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MVR0000098SEF00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:09:47 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MVR000O19C57Y70@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 22:09:42 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87bo20ufsj.fsf@engster.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:94329 Archived-At: > From: David Engster > Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:29:16 +0100 > > 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. Unfortunately, it's a sad reality. If you want to be able to build old versions reliably, you need to keep the tools you used back then.