Re: update on 2.1r5 status...

[Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "CM" == Christian Meder <meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:

 >> > >   [Vincent 2000/01/07]
 >> > >   package      : emacs20
 >> > >   version      : 20.5a-1.99
 >> > >   architectures: i386 m68k sparc (ALPHA MISSING!!!!)
 >> > >   issue        : Y2K fix in lisp/timezone.el
 >> > 
 >> > That's a hard one. It compiles ok but during the emacs lisp compilation it
 >> > goes boink. I tried egcs1.1.2 and egcs1.0.3a. Should I retry with gcc2.95.2
 >> > which isn't a slink compiler ? Or just leave it alone ?
 >> 
 >> maybe try with gcc2.95.2? what's usually done when this happens? (it
 >> already happened I assume)

 CM> A lost cause. egcs1.0.3a, egcs1.1.2 and gcc2.95.2 break in the
 CM> same fashion.  Probably a binutils problem. I'll write up a bug
 CM> report for bug-emacs

Please will someone make a bug report urgently so that we (Emacs
maintainers) can investigate it for Emacs 20.6.

[davem reported an unexec problem on SPARC, but it works on my SPARC
potato system, on an x86 Debian 2.0 system and whatever version rms is
running.]