Re: New(!?) warning makes configure for 21.4 break

Dear Mats,

Thank you for your gentle and thoughtful response to my (perhaps hasty and
ill-tempered) reply

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Mats Lidell wrote:
>
> >>>>> Vin Shelton writes:
>
> > ... and I have been unable to compile 19.16 on any linux box for several
> years.  So?
>
> Well 21.4 is still the stable version.
>

Right.  That, specifically, is the crux of the matter.

> [...] but we need to declare 21.4 frozen and not move that codebase
> > forward.
>
> Agreed!
>
> > If you want to keep building 21.4 for gentoo, please make
> > adjustments for the frozen 21.4 sources in the gentoo build system.
>
> Yes that is what I plan.
>

Great!


> Maybe(!?) compile-from-source distros, like Gentoo, have more problems
> with this since the problem immediately hits the users. Since it does
> not only affect new installs of xemacs but also if for some reason it
> needs to be rebuilt.
>

That could well be.  For instance, I have not seen any problem on my Mint
systems.

But the from-source distros need up-to-date tools to support building
packages.  autoconf 2.13 ain't it.


> > Can we please promote 21.5 to stable sometime?
>
> Yes that would be nice. It would remove the pressure on xemacs-21.4
> and line it up with 19.16 in the archives.
>

  :-)

Best,
  Vin