X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Rugxulo Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Emacs 23.0.95 pretest is available Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 75 Message-ID: <5a7eb0db-1b56-4f7a-811d-bb7abdaef0cc@b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> References: <83eit5zsit DOT fsf AT gnu DOT org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246156918 29701 127.0.0.1 (28 Jun 2009 02:41:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.64 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en) Presto/2.1.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi, On Jun 27, 8:59=A0am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Another pretest of Emacs 23.1 is available: > > =A0http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.0.95.tar.gz > =A0ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.0.95.tar.gz > > I have just built it on my XP machine, and it seems to build and work > fine. =A0 "make install" took approx. 4 1/2 mins. for me on my P4 (XP) although I spent at least five hours today messing with this (trying to be helpful, I know volunteers are few). However, on XP or FreeDOS, if using GCC 2.95.3 (oldy moldy which I'm fond of), it seems to hang at loadup.el (I think) unless --with-system-malloc is used. Also see the note below about "top_srcdir" and "srcdir". Anyways, briefly / lightly tested the "system malloc" build on XP and Vista (e.g. loading 100 MB enwik8), and it seems to work correctly as in previous versions. ------------------------------------------------ "Your file has been saved and can now be downloaded 10 times. It will be deleted after 90 days without download" 1. Download Link: Click here to download file (39 MB) http://rapidshare.com/files/249435775/emacs-23.0.95.7z.html MD5: 30F44E396768AD40D6057FA453CA8080 ------------------------------------------------ > However, I would appreciate if more people could give it a try > and report any problems they saw (or the lack thereof). =A0 "C-x 5 1" etc. (frames) seem to be giving problems (FreeDOS or Vista). I don't use frames that much, so I'm not sure when that broke exactly. > In > particular, if someone could build and run it on plain DOS and report > the results, that would be most appreciated. I still don't have a decent DOS setup with 'Net access, so it's quite awkward. But I did use a boot floppy (FreeDOS 2038 stable, FreeCOM 0.84-pre2), a small USB jump drive (64 MB total) which the BIOS emualtes as a HD, plus a really big RAM drive (RDISK) to unpack and build on. First of all, I tried with StarLFN (probably should've also tried DOSLFN, but that's for another day), which slows everything down way way WAY too much (and didn't work), so I decided to try without any LFNs. Either way, Make (3.79.1 or 3.81) seemed to have problems finding test-distrib.c, so I had to manually change Makefile "top_srcdir" and lib-src/Makefile "srcdir" to point to "/dev/e/emacs" and "/dev/e/emacs/lib-src", respectively, instead of the weird shell hack that is trying to use "e:/emacs" instead (which doesn't work, dunno why). Otherwise, it seems to build okay and works (doctor, tetris, gomoku, C-x b, menus) except for frames (all OSes) and "C-x i" (can't find Info dir in FreeDOS w/ SFNs, but Vista w/ LFNs works okay). I also tried with 3.4.4 for laughs just in case some of it was GCC version specific, but no apparent differences (well, no silly alignment warnings, 2.95.3 says "... too much, defaulting to 4 " a lot) beyond a slightly bigger .EXE (well, and the above loadup issue which 3.4.4 doesn't have, but it doesn't have 8-byte alignment either, so the above download is using GCC 4.4.0). I should've probably tested some Leim stuff (E-o), but I didn't get around to that this time. I just blindly assume it still works. Then again, now that I've built it, it won't be hard rebooting to try real DOS since a 40 MB .7z will actually fit on my jump drive. Oh, and just in case you're really curious, I did try building a previous alpha the other day once I upgraded to SP2, no luck (and no surprise). So Vista (NT 6.0) still won't build it correctly. Win 7 (NT 6.1) -> Oct. 22, get ready! (Blargh.) I think MS gives free updates for it in the U.S. for any computer bought on or after June 26th. I'm already tired of hearing about it. :-/