Re: Old (static) builds of Emacs

[Michael Albinus]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

Hi Philip,

> Until now I have only been able to test the library using Emacs 27.2 and
> Emacs 28.0.50/60. This doesn't seem like enough for a library that
> actually targets older versions of Emacs.
>
> My question is therefore: Does anyone know where to download old Emacs
> builds? I have tried building 24.x and 25.x on my system, but it seems
> (?) that changes in glibc prevent this from being done.
>
> So before I have to set up virtual machines with older distributions, I
> was wondering if anyone knew of an archive with pre-build, preferably
> static, Emacs builds.

There's <https://hub.docker.com/r/silex/emacs>, which offers different
Emacs versions in a docker container. I've never tried it myself, but
maybe it helps you.

Best regards, Michael.