Subject: Re: bug#18608: 24.3.94; IRIX 6.5 build fails; "emacs: Invalid function: make-local-variable"

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:55:57 -0400

Paul Eggert wrote:

> GNU Emacs 24.3.94 successfully builds under Solaris 10 (sparc) and AIX
> 7.1 (POWER) but does not build under IRIX 6.5 (MIPS) with GCC 3.4.6.

Did previous pretests (or 24.3) work?
(Is it necessary to use that old gcc?)

> SGI itself dropped support for IRIX last year, so perhaps the simplest
> fix would be to add a NEWS item that IRIX is no longer supported.

I don't think there's any "perhaps" about that being the simplest thing. :)