GNU bug report logs - #69762
X11 versions of Emacs 29 on sparc fail at startup

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ali_gnu2 <at> emvision.com

Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 20:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #82 received at 69762-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: ali_gnu2 <at> emvision.com
Cc: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith <at> oracle.com>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 69762-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#69762: X11 versions of Emacs 29 on sparc fail at startup
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 08:53:59 +0800
ali_gnu2 <at> emvision.com writes:

>    It also means that the extra error handling
> you put together as a workaround can probably
> be omitted. Had that workaround been in place
> earlier, we would never have found and gotten
> these issues fixed.

Thanks, but our policy is to support all X servers users might plausibly
encounter, so the workaround must remain, all the more so with such a
widely-distributed X server.




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