GNU bug report logs - #48342
native-comp emacs gets into an infinite loop at startup if no .el files are available

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dima Kogan <dima <at> secretsauce.net>

Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 07:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at 48342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: dima <at> secretsauce.net, 48342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, akrl <at> sdf.org
Subject: Re: bug#48342: native-comp emacs gets into an infinite loop at
 startup if no .el files are available
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 19:38:30 +0000

>> Debian at least maintains a separate repository (snapshot.debian.org) 
>> in which you can find each version of each package distributed by 
>> Debian after March 2005, in both source and binary form.  Yes, that's 
>> quite a lot of data: that archive currently occupies ~100 TB.
>
> My concern is about users who still have Emacs before March 2005.
>

I forgot to mention that snapshot.debian.org also contains a copy of all 
earlier stable releases of Debian since ~1995.  For Emacs, the oldest 
version in that archive is Emacs 19.29...
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