Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:35:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: Faried Nawaz <fn@hungry.org>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: emacs 18.59. Message-ID: <19990329103534.N413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990328105539.15334.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>; from Greg Black on Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 08:55:39PM %2B1000 References: <19990327150416.362951.FMU5280@siren.hungry.com> <19990328115128.V53452@lemis.com> <19990328105539.15334.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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On Sunday, 28 March 1999 at 20:55:39 +1000, Greg Black wrote: >>> 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. Agreed. I think this is the easiest choice. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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