Re: Old (static) builds of Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

Philip Kaludercic [2021-10-07 20:29:40] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> 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.
>>
>> FWIW, I keep older versions of Emacs in my Debian install by tweaking
>> the .deb files to eliminate the conflicts.
>
> And they still run?

Yup.

> I tried extracting a executable from an old package,
> but it immediately failed.

I can't remember having had such problems, FWIW.


        Stefan