Subject: Re: bug#11971: Emacs 24.1 fails to build on ia64 with "value as variable is void"

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:16:49 -0500

Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Sure. But if the problem occurs on many/most ia64 platforms, obviously
>> we should change the default to the conservative one. Or is there
>> something unusual about the Debian one?
>
> Maybe the bug has been fixed already, I couldn't reproduce it with
> current trunk.

Rob, could you try the latest pretest from

http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/

on ia64 and see if it works unmodified?

(It would be super-awesome if you could test it on _all_ the Debian archs.
Is this what experimental is for?)