Re: Difficulty building older Emacsen: <tab> characters seemingly fouling things up.

[David Engster]

Alan Mackenzie writes:
>> Building older Emacsen can be quite frustrating. I think I also had
>> problems with linking crt1.o or somesuch when creating older Emacs
>> binaries for the Buildbot.
>
> I've managed successfully to rebuild 22.1, 22.2, 22.3,  23.2, 23.3,
> and 24.2.  The more recent versions were OK anyway.

On what system are you compiling?

> 23.4 (which builds OK, but freezes with 100% CPU at startup)

I dimly remember that one - newer libglib made Emacs 23 freeze on
startup. See for instance

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666714

If you really care for Emacs 23.4, then I guess you could try patching
xgselect.c (I guess b05725233b might do the trick). I simply installed
the Debian 7 emacs23 package, which happens to be 23.4. :-)

-David