Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released

[Richard Copley]

On 21 September 2017 at 20:15, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Richard Copley <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:53:42 +0100
>> Cc: Emacs Development <address@hidden>
>>
>> > I'd suggest to upload fixed binaries.
>>
>> To do that without creating a new release, of course, means using a
>> toolchain version other than that which the excellent Nico in fact
>> used.
>
> No, it means to backport the change in the library order and then
> rebuild.  The modified source tarball should be uploaded to the same
> place.

Great.

>> FYI the MSYS2 package sources don't provide old versions of packages.
>> Their currently available MinGW-W64 toolchains won't build a 64-bit
>> Emacs that works on Windows 7 from the 25.3 release.
>
> I think the binary will work on Windows 7 if built on Windows 7.  But
> I don't suggest actually trying that.

#28493.

>> Will the mingw.org toolchains described in nt/INSTALL do it?
>
> Not for a 64-bit build, no.

OK, thanks.