From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Precompiled Emacs
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:26:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txfrud4r.fsf@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83habs7wu5.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
>> 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.
Even that's not enough, I'm afraid. I was able to build Emacs 23.2
eventually, but it isn't working properly. When I start it up in a TTY,
it doesn't accept any keyboard input and consumes 100% CPU. It works in
batch-mode for byte-compilation, at least (though cannot spawn any
processes there...).
I even compiled Emacs 23.2 on an old box still running Debian 6, and it
runs fine there, but when I copied it over to Debian 7, it shows the
same broken behavior, so I guess it's a problem with some shared lib.
It's not a big issue, but if I'd be really rigorous about testing with
old versions, I'd probably need to run it in a virtual machine with
Debian 6...
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-04 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-03 11:56 Precompiled Emacs Johan Andersson
2013-11-03 19:52 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-11-03 19:56 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-03 19:59 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-03 21:43 ` Kai Großjohann
2013-11-04 8:11 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-04 8:25 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-04 8:26 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-04 11:46 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-04 12:29 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-04 13:21 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-04 13:31 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-04 14:39 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-04 19:40 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-05 12:35 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-05 15:22 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-06 10:18 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-06 10:23 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-06 13:01 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-06 13:03 ` Johan Andersson
2013-12-07 15:25 ` Johan Andersson
2013-11-05 21:14 ` Kai Großjohann
2013-11-04 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 17:52 ` David Engster
2013-11-04 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 19:29 ` David Engster
2013-11-04 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-04 20:26 ` David Engster [this message]
2013-11-05 5:10 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-05 19:26 ` David Engster
2013-11-04 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 20:24 ` David Engster
2013-11-04 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-04 14:46 ` Jambunathan K
2013-11-04 21:32 ` Kai Großjohann
2013-11-05 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-05 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-05 20:26 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-06 10:24 ` Phillip Lord
2013-11-06 10:41 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.5200.1383508791.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-03 21:30 ` Dan Espen
[not found] <mailman.5190.1383504232.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-03 19:22 ` Carson Chittom
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