Re: XEmacs

[Hannes.Loeffler@uibk.ac.at (Hannes Löffler)]

Loic.Prylli@ens-lyon.fr (Loic Prylli) writes:

> Brederlow writes:
>  > Hannes.Loeffler@uibk.ac.at (Hannes Löffler) writes:
>  > 
>  > > I just read the thread about the problems with XEmacs 20.X and
>  > > Debian/Alpha and still wonder what the problems are with Debian. I
>  > > once downloaded a patch (can't remember the site, but I think it was
>  > > somewhere in the DE domain) for 20.3 which also applied to
>  > > 20.4. XEmacs runs happily here on a Redhat 5.1 system.
>  > 
>  > Do you still have the source? Could you make a diff please. Even a tar 
>  > ball or rpm of the bin would be usefull. Better than using vi, which
>  > does a screen update every 4 chars only. :)

Somebody else already created an RPM. I found one on
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/tux/tux/xemacs/xemacs-20.4/RPMS/hurricane/alpha/xemacs-20.4-2.alpha.rpm
Don't know how XEmacs was configured therein, I never tried.


> 
> The patch is on http://lhpca.univ-lyon1.fr/axp, it actually consists
> in borrowing the "dumping code" of emacs.  
> 
> Altough the one I compiled 8 months ago was working fine, I was unable
> to recompile a working xemacs with the current development packages
> (gcc,binutils,libc...). I got the same kind of errors than others
> reported on this list. And the older binary is not perfectly stable
> with the new libc (maybe it is normal for [x]emacs to have some
> problems with a C library different than the one it was compiled with,
> that's why I tried to recompile it).

Hm, I can only speak for Redhat now. I compiled XEmacs after I installed 5.0,
now I run 5.1. Libc changed several times in the meantime. The binary dates
Mar 4 1998. Can't remember which compiler I used but assume egcs.