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Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 18:04:39 +0300
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
Subject: Pretest version 24.3.91 of GNU Emacs is available
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The 2nd pretest 24.3.91 of the upcoming Emacs v24.4 was released
today.  It is supposed to compile out of the box with DJGPP; it did
for me.  (The DJGPP build of the previous pretest was broken.)  The
tarball can be downloaded from here:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-24.3.91.tar.xz

I'd appreciate if people could build and test this on any environment
that supports DJGPP.  I myself can only build and test on Windows XP,
and even there the testing I did was very short and superficial.

A few caveats:

  . This might not build on plain DOS due to file-name clashes.
    Sorry, I could no longer fight half the world and their dog to
    keep the tree doschk-compatible.  If you see any problems related
    to that, or to plain DOS in general, please report them, and I
    will try to fix them as best I can.

  . I only built this with DJGPP 2.03.  I did try to keep the sources
    compatible with 2.04, but I never tested the results.  Feedback
    and any fixes needed to build with 2.04 will be appreciated.

  . I used GCC 3.4.4 and Binutils 2.19 to build Emacs.  DJGPP Emacs
    uses COFF debug info, so if newer GCC/Binutils don't support that
    well, you might have trouble.  Latest GDB versions built for DJGPP
    also have problems with COFF debug info, AFAIR.

If you find bugs, you can report them by sending email to
bug-gnu-emacs AT gnu DOT org.  It is best to compose the bug report using the
"M-x report-emacs-bug" Emacs command, since it will collect the
necessary system-wide and configuration information, and format the
report as Emacs maintainers want to see it.  Then copy-paste the text
to your email client, or save it to a file and then import from the
email client, and send it to bug-gnu-emacs AT gnu DOT org.  The Emacs bug
tracker, which monitors that address will create a bug report from it,
and you can see it and track its progress at http://debbugs.gnu.org/.

Thanks in advance for testing and any feedback.