XEmacs 21.4.24 "Standard C" Released

[Vin Shelton]

I have tagged and uploaded XEmacs 21.4.24, "Standard C", to the XEmacs
ftp site. The tarball can be found here:
http://ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs-21.4/xemacs-21.4.24.tar.gz .

It is my fervent hope that this will be the last 21.4 release of XEmacs.

Regards,
Vin Shelton

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Post by Vin Shelton
I have tagged and uploaded XEmacs 21.4.24, "Standard C", to the XEmacs
http://ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs-21.4/xemacs-21.4.24.tar.gz .

Congratulations!

Post by Vin Shelton
It is my fervent hope that this will be the last 21.4 release of XEmacs.

Yeah.:-/

***@pycon2015-excited-about-doing-software-ly y'rs,

[Mats Lidell]

Post by Vin Shelton
I have tagged and uploaded XEmacs 21.4.24, "Standard C", to the XEmacs
ftp site.

This is good news! Thanks for a great job!

Yours

[Sean MacLennan]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:02:28 -0400

Post by Vin Shelton
I have tagged and uploaded XEmacs 21.4.24, "Standard C", to the XEmacs
http://ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs-21.4/xemacs-21.4.24.tar.gz .
It is my fervent hope that this will be the last 21.4 release of XEmacs.
Regards,
Vin Shelton

Doesn't build for me :( The original 21.4 updates did build. Exact
same build and patches that I used last time.

Looks like makeinfo problems. I am using makeinfo 4.13 which comes
standard with Slackware 14.1.

makeinfo -P lispref -o ../info/lispref.info lispref/lispref.texi
/tmp/SBo/xemacs-21.4.24/man/lispref//edebug-inc.texi:3: Prev field of
node `Edebug' not pointed
to. /tmp/SBo/xemacs-21.4.24/man/lispref//debugging.texi:728: This node
(Compilation Errors) has the bad
Next. /tmp/SBo/xemacs-21.4.24/man/lispref//packaging.texi:21: Prev
field of node `Packaging' not pointed
to. /tmp/SBo/xemacs-21.4.24/man/lispref//intro.texi:403: This node
(Introduction) has the bad
Next. /tmp/SBo/xemacs-21.4.24/man/lispref//intro.texi:403:
`Introduction' has no Up field (perhaps incorrect
sectioning?). /tmp/SBo/xemacs-21.4.24/man/lispref//intro.texi:7:
`Copying' has no Up field (perhaps incorrect
sectioning?). ./lispref/lispref.texi:122: Next field of node `Top' not
pointed to (perhaps incorrect
sectioning?). /tmp/SBo/xemacs-21.4.24/man/lispref//intro.texi:7: This
node (Copying) has the bad Prev. makeinfo: Removing output file
`../info/lispref.info' due to errors; use --forceto preserve.
make[1]: *** [../info/lispref.info] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/xemacs-21.4.24/man'
make: *** [info] Error 2

Cheers,
Sean

[Sean MacLennan]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 19:01:51 -0400

Yes, I upgraded to makeinfo 5+. Most distros no longer have makeinfo
4.13 available. Is slackware 14.1 current?

Yes, although it was released over a year ago: 2013-11-07. The current
still has 4.13. Not sure if I should wait and hope Pat upgrades, or
just disable makeinfo and release as is.

Cheers,
Sean

[Vin Shelton]

Dear Sean,

Post by Sean MacLennan

Yes, I upgraded to makeinfo 5+. Most distros no longer have makeinfo
4.13 available. Is slackware 14.1 current?

Yes, although it was released over a year ago: 2013-11-07. The current
still has 4.13. Not sure if I should wait and hope Pat upgrades, or
just disable makeinfo and release as is.

First - thanks for your efforts. I'm sorry to catch you off-guard
with my switchover to texinfo 5.

My rationale was this: since texinfo 5 is incompatible with texinfo 4,
and since XEmacs 21.5 (and some of the packages) have moved to texinfo
5, and many (most?) distros (including cygwin) ship texinfo 5, I
decided to bite the bullet and move to texinfo 5.

I think you should build your own version of texinfo 5 and release the
XEmacs 21.4 built against texinfo 5. That way, when slackware updates
to texinfo 5, you will be all set.

- Vin