Re: pkg/47992 (emacs23 and emacs24 i386/6.1 pre-compiled binaries fail)

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: maya%NetBSD.org@localhost
> State-Changed-When: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 21:45:38 +0000
> State-Changed-Why:
> Are binary emacs packages still a problem?
> Note for information: this is an issue because emacs will dump
> its memory and restore it, and it is thus sensitive to
> difference in allowable memory ranges.

I just tried installing a binary package for emacs25-nox11 (since
emacs25 apparently isn't available, possibly due to svg/rust) on
NetBSD/i386 8.1, and there it worked.  I beleive the emacs23 and
emacs24 packages have been removed from pkgsrc in the mean time,
so I can't exactly reproduce the problem, although this is an
indication that it's solved.

Wasn't the problem that the pkg build hosts ran the PAE i386
variant in Xen(?), and that this was incompatible with native
i386 address space layout?  Not sure how that has changed since
the problem was reported.

Best regards,

- Håvard