[Gcl-devel] Re: Patch: compile with newer system BFD libraries

[Jerry James]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Jerry James <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patch detects whether a newer system BFD library is being used,
> specifically one that requires an output BFD.  If so, it adds code to
> set up a dummy output BFD.  This lets me compile successfully with the
> Fedora 9 BFD library.
>
> This patch requires regenerating the configure script with autoconf,
> and also using autoheader to regenerate h/gclincl.h.in.
> Unfortunately, autoconf 2.61 generates a configure script that will
> not run successfully, due to some obsolete autoconf usages in the
> current configure.in.  I'll send a patch to fix that in a moment.

Don't use that patch, at least not the part that patches o/unexelf.c.
The Emacs unexelf.c I used to make that is GPL v3.  Here's a
replacement patch that syncs up with the unexelf.c in Emacs 22.1, the
last version of Emacs released under GPL v2.
-- 
Jerry James
http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/

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