Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That would be me. The problem is that for years either nobody built > emacs21 or nobody had the motivation to fix it; either way, after the > libtiff3g->libtiff4 transition, emacs21 needed a rebuild and we found > out it just segfaults once the build system tries to run it (in order to > byte-compile stuff I think). You can see the error and a backtrace here: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2005/04/msg00080.html
OK, Thanks. > Now, emacs is pretty important to most people running the Hurd, but so > far nobody stepped up to look into fixing emacs21. We got told that the > CVS version builds fine, but the changes from emacs21 are so enormous > that it is useless as a starting point for fixing emacs21. Alright. >> I would advice that Emacs CVS be not distributed as 'emacs22' since >> it has not been released yet and it could confuse people. > > That is a fair remark (though the upstream version number > [22+0+20050320cvs] is scary enough that it might make people wonder). > I found the emacs22 source package on the net and rebuilt it. I > actually looked for a emacs-snapshot package first (and found some > mentioning of it), but as I am not in touch with either emacs or Debian > emacs development (not using it myself really), I decided to simply grab > the emacs22 package. In hindsight, maybe I should have better contacted > one of you guys :) I'm regularly in touch with emacs-devel AT gnu.org and I'm trying to get patches applied there as much as possible. [...] >> It would be nice if you could test the build on the Hurd and report >> any problem (both in Emacs and in the packaging) to debian-emacsen, so >> we can fix them as quickly as possible. > > I just saw that my emacs22 upload to the semi-official 'unreleased' > hurd-i386 .deb archive got rejected, so I will proceed by building these > packages and subsequently remove the emacs22 packages from my repository > at people.debian.org OK, it is wiser. > It might take a while though, as I am mostly busy right now. I will > report back. No problem. You can write to debian-emacsen AT lists.debian.org for any problem/question. > BTW, the 'hurd-libio-glibc' patch (which is in the emacs21 and the > unofficial emacs22 packages) is apparently not needed anymore. Noted. Thanks! Cheers, -- J�r�me Marant
