From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Build failure on Debian unstable Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:55:20 -0400 Message-ID: <87odkbfsbb.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87646jr2gz.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179945832 4035 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2007 18:43:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:43:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sven Joachim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 23 20:43:43 2007 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 1HqvoF-00011B-CK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 20:43:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqvoH-0001iJ-Cn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 14:43:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hqvnl-0001V2-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 14:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hqvnh-0001UT-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 14:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hqvnh-0001UQ-Na for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 14:43:09 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hqvnh-0004fK-8X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 14:43:09 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 64F7D4EBCA; Wed, 23 May 2007 11:55:20 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87646jr2gz.fsf@gmx.de> (Sven Joachim's message of "Wed\, 23 May 2007 17\:20\:28 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:71667 Archived-At: Sven Joachim writes: > Please have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/423462, it says that > Emacs currently fails to build: > > I verified that this does indeed happen. While it is an incompatible > change that the Debian maintainers did not give LINUX_VERSION_CODE a > version, I tend to agree Steve Langasek that it is very unreliable to > check LINUX_VERSION_CODE to determine the version of the Linux kernel, > since the kernel version is not really related to what > /usr/include/linux/version.h states about it (and it's entirely > possible to build Emacs with a new kernel but run it under an older > one). >>From reading the bug report, it seems that many software packages, including the Sendmail and Postfix mail transport agents, do the same thing. So this should not be urgent enough to block the Emacs 22.1 release.