GNU bug report logs - #11873
24.1; Build failure with glibc-2.16

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 15:54:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.1

Fixed in version 24.2

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 11873 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 11873 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11873: Another important bug
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:00:21 +0800

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> That patch also looks OK.

OK, thanks, committed.

> One other thought is to merge all the gnulib patches
> into 24.2.  This would be approximately a 5000-line
> change.  It would fix the bug in question, along with
> several other portability problems.  It would be a trivial
> patch to generate, but would take some time to review
> if people wanted to review it manually and/or cherry
> pick some of the patches (I don't want to spend that time).

That doesn't sound feasible if we want to release 24.2 promptly.
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