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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
Subject: Re: DOS/DJGPP specific patch for emacs 23.4
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> From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 00:07:40 +0200
> 
> I have tried to build emacs out-of-the-box and it did not work.
> It seems that something has changed in handling of the size member
> of struct Lisp_Vector and nobody cared about adjusting the DOS specific
> files accordingly.  Here is a patch to fix it.

Thanks.  Emacs 23.4 was an unplanned emergency release, due to a
security problem uncovered in one of the Emacs packages.  That problem
cannot affect the DJGPP port, so I never even tried to build 23.4.  As
it turns out, several changes done on the development trunk were
merged at the last moment to the Emacs 23 branch, and one of them had
this bad effect.  Sorry about that.

Anyway, there will be no more releases of the Emacs 23.x series, and
the problem you encountered does not exist on the trunk.  So there's
no need to apply this patch.  However, people who want to build Emacs
23.4 should indeed use it.