i386-pc-solaris2.5.1: recent snapshots can't build emacs-20.2

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Mon Aug 17 19:53:00 GMT 1998


  In message < 87iujrs9ax.fsf@ascend.com >you write:
  > | OK.  This has nothing to do with whatever cvs version we're running.  It
  > | sounds more like the typical development instability.  What happens if
  > | you try to build something newer, paricularly off the egcs-1.1  branch?
  > 
  > I've been doing that (with the trunk, then, since the branch, with 1.1)
  > for more than a month.  It works fine.  Of course, using the resulting
  > compiler to try to build emacs is what fails.
I'm really confused -- look back at what you said a little while ago:

|   > |   In message < 873eawf8n0.fsf@ascend.com >you write:
|   > |   > I did try to build a few `cvs update -D DATE'-selected
|   > |   > versions of egcs, but none of them bootstrapped.  What version
|   > |   > of CVS is running on Cygnus' egcs repository?

So in fact, you can bootstrap, but we still have problems with XEmacs
right?

jeff



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