From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 28 3: 6:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B2F9151E0 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 03:06:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 15335 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Mar 1999 10:55:39 -0000 Message-ID: <19990328105539.15334.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 20:55:39 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Greg Lehey Cc: Faried Nawaz , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: emacs 18.59. References: <19990327150416.362951.FMU5280@siren.hungry.com> <19990328115128.V53452@lemis.com> In-reply-to: <19990328115128.V53452@lemis.com> of Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:51:28 +0930 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I maintain some elisp code that has to work all the way back to Emacs > > 18.59. Does anyone have patches to build Emacs 18.59 on FreeBSD 3.x? > > No, but have you tried just building it? I can probably drag out some > port logs if you run into trouble, but it would be nice to know what > goes wrong first. My guess is that the ELF stuff in 3.x might present some problems for the undump phase of the build. I see two simple solutions: * Forget 3.x and install emacs-18.59 on a 2.2.8 system, where there's a good chance that it'll just work -- after all, it's not the FreeBSD version that matters for this, but the emacs version and nobody sane would have been building such an old emacs version in the lifetime of 3.x. * See if the lisp code will run on the temacs executable and forget the undump phase -- it's about a trillion years since I last needed to do something like this (it was emacs-17.49 as I recall) and it might not work with 18.59, but it might be worth a try. * The third of these two easy options is to forget compatibility with emacs-18, given that so much has changed in the lisp system in the major updates since then. If I'd taken the plunge and installed my 3.1 CDs, I might have tried one of these ideas out there, but I haven't so I can't ;-) -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message