Re: address@hidden: Re: address@hidden: Abnormal High CPU Usage]]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 18:19:35 +0100
> 
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The one other issue that occurs to me is that sometimes
> > the sources in CVS are broken.  If the tar file gets made
> > (by chance) at such a time, it would then stay broken even
> > after the CVS sources are corrected.
> 
> Before publishing unpack the tar file and test it.  If it doesn't build
> don't update the old file but write a README file.

This is already done: a number of people sync with CVS and build
Emacs as a matter of routine, and they still sometimes miss fatal
problems, mainly because some problems pop up only on certain
platforms.

To make this significantly better, we'd have to set up a
cross-compiling environment for at least the most popular platforms,
and build Emacs for all of them, before making the snapshot.  That's a
lot of work, so someone will have to step forward and volunteer to do
it.

Unless people are willing to live with the risk of getting a broken
snapshot, that is.