Re: New(!?) warning makes configure for 21.4 break
Dear Mats,
Thank you for your gentle and thoughtful response to my (perhaps hasty and
ill-tempered) reply
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Mats Lidell wrote:
>>>>> Vin Shelton writes:
> ... and I have been unable to compile 19.16 on any linux box for several
years. So?
Well 21.4 is still the stable version.
Right. That, specifically, is the crux of the matter.
[...] but we need to declare 21.4 frozen and not move that codebase
> forward.
Agreed!
> If you want to keep building 21.4 for gentoo, please make
> adjustments for the frozen 21.4 sources in the gentoo build system.
Yes that is what I plan.
Great!
Maybe(!?) compile-from-source distros, like Gentoo, have more
problems
with this since the problem immediately hits the users. Since it does
not only affect new installs of xemacs but also if for some reason it
needs to be rebuilt.
That could well be. For instance, I have not seen any problem on my Mint
systems.
But the from-source distros need up-to-date tools to support building
packages. autoconf 2.13 ain't it.
> Can we please promote 21.5 to stable sometime?
Yes that would be nice. It would remove the pressure on xemacs-21.4
and line it up with 19.16 in the archives.
:-)
Best,
Vin
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