Re: Emacs 23.0.95 pretest is available

Hi,

On Jun 27, 8:59 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Another pretest of Emacs 23.1 is available:

 http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.0.95.tar.gz
 ftp://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.  

"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.

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However, I would appreciate if more people could give it a try
and report any problems they saw (or the lack thereof).  

"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. :-/
.

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