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Re: Old (static) builds of Emacs


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Old (static) builds of Emacs
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 17:21:45 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Philip Kaludercic [2021-10-07 20:29:40] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> So before I have to set up virtual machines with older distributions, I
>>> was wondering if anyone knew of an archive with pre-build, preferably
>>> static, Emacs builds.
>>
>> FWIW, I keep older versions of Emacs in my Debian install by tweaking
>> the .deb files to eliminate the conflicts.
>
> And they still run?

Yup.

> I tried extracting a executable from an old package,
> but it immediately failed.

I can't remember having had such problems, FWIW.


        Stefan




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