Re: MacOSX emacs crashes after 10.4.3 update

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

>>>>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:14:30 +0000, David Reitter <address@hidden> said:

> This is unfortunate, but seems to be a known problem. Similarly,
> binaries built on 10.4 generally don't run on 10.3.

> The Mac port contains a lot of code to support ancient systems /
> system APIs like MacOS 8/9, apparently even without CarbonLib (never
> tried, though), but there is pretty much no binary compatibility
> between OS versions for Emacs.

Does this affect all the Mac binaries including X11, or Carbon port
only?

> Have you tried setting the environment variable
> MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 ?  E.g.

> MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 ./make-package (...)

> I heard that helps you build binaries that run on all 10.4 versions.

Do you have any references explaining why it works (or why binary
compatibility is broken without it)?

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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