From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 28 17: 6: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8C814BEC for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 17:05:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA21664; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:35:35 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA06564; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:35:34 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990329103534.N413@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:35:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Greg Black Cc: Faried Nawaz , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: emacs 18.59. References: <19990327150416.362951.FMU5280@siren.hungry.com> <19990328115128.V53452@lemis.com> <19990328105539.15334.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990328105539.15334.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>; from Greg Black on Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 08:55:39PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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