Re: Can't build previous versions of Emacs?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

>> Some of these patches are backported from later Emacs versions, in which
>> case the original commits are indicated in the header. Others are
>> authored by me, and there are copyright papers for me on file.
>
> If they already work, couldn't they be integrated into the appropriate
> upstream branches now?

Looking at those patches, they seem pretty extensive and makes the Emacs
versions actually, well, usable.  Which isn't really what I'd want
ideally -- I just want to be able to build the older Emacs versions to
do testing, bugs and all.

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