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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: SGI binary kit incompatibilities
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Tomasz J. Cholewo writes:
 > A weakness in unexelfsgi causes that XEmacs dumped on IRIX crashes after
 > patching up system libraries (to say nothing about OS upgrades).  For
 > example xemacs-19.15-mips-sgi-irix6.3.tar.gz distribution crashes on
 > recent O2 computers as taken out of the box (irix6.3 with patches from
 > February).  I think that `temacs' is still mostly portable between 5.3,
 > 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4.
 > 
 > The long term solution is to fix the dump process to make it less
 > dependent on system internals.

I know how to make Emacs dump itself portably or at least I think 
I do.  I did it for another Lisp system around ten years ago.
What I need but don't yet have is time.

