From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Source and compiling instructions for old version of Emacs (< 19.x) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4A735183.2050006@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249096931 14192 80.91.229.12 (1 Aug 2009 03:22:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 03:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Earl Kent Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 01 05:22:04 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 1MX5Aa-0004MU-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:22:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49340 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5AZ-0006Of-PJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5AU-0006OI-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5AP-0006Nq-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49733 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MX5AO-0006Nn-Rd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38253) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MX5AO-0000Fw-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MX5AO-00086R-7X; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:52 -0400 In-reply-to: <4A735183.2050006@gmail.com> (message from Earl Kent on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:18:11 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:113494 Archived-At: 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, Linux is a kernel. Linux alone is not a sufficient platform to run any version of GNU Emacs. You probably mean a GNU/Linux distribution, which consists of the GNU system and Linux together. Please don't call the GNU system "Linux" -- it is unfair to us and it is harmful to our work. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html for more explanation of this, and http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html for the historical background. Someone, FSF staff I think, found a copy of Emacs 16 for me a few months ago. If you promise never to call the whole system "Linux", I will ask them to dig it up for you.