Subject: bug#1609: mipsel--netbsd obsoleted...

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:22:31 -0500

> I'm trying to build the NetBSD pkgsrc package emacs-nox11-22.3nb1, and 
> it aborts with the following message:
>
> > checking host system type... mipsel--netbsd
> > The system that you are configuring on: mipsel--netbsd is considered
> > to be obsolete
> > and it is planned to be desupported in the next version of Emacs
> > Please email [email-masked] as soon as possible if this system is
> > still in use.
> > The code is still functional, but you need to edit the 'configure'
> > script and remove the
> > exit 33 line.  After that you can run configure again and 'complete'
> > the build.
> > *** Error code 33
> > 
> > Stop.
> > make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/editors/emacs-nox11
> > *** Error code 1

If you do as the error message says (i.e. removing the exit 33 line in
configure), does compilation complete?  Can the resulting Emacs binary
be used?