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From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
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Subject: Re: DOS/DJGPP specific patch for emacs 23.4
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 07:32:29 -0700 (PDT)
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On 9 Apr., 08:49, Eli Zaretskii <e DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gnu DOT org> wrote:
> > From: Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerr DOT  DOT  DOT  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.

It is OK with me.  It was not my intention to build
an emacs port, I only wanted to test binutils 2.22
using large source code packages.

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero