Re: Emacs on AMD64

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Nov 30 2005, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

> $ ../emacs-21.4/configure
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' 
> systems.
> Check `etc/MACHINES' for recognized configuration names.
>
> Is the message true?  Mandrake 9.2 contains emacs-21.3 (I wanted to 
> upgrade).

Emacs 21.4 and 21.3 only differ by a single security fix.  Probably
Mandrake has already fixed this problem in their emacs-21.3 package
without increasing the version to 21.4.  Here on SuSE 9.2:

,----
| $ rpm -q --changelog emacs|less +/movemail
| 
| * Fri Feb 04 2005 - werner@suse.de
| 
| - Security fix for movemail applied (bug #50237)
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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