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For all who may be interested:

Emacs 21.4 compiles under Slackware 3.9 with no problem.
So it should run under BL 3.x. 
I like new soft compiling with old libc5.

With International fonts it's good tool to
write in i.e. Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese etc.
Why is it good to have latest Emacs?
Well, i.e. export to UTF-8 is better so
when I have no problems with sharing
some Vietnamese texts with others.

But remember: Emacs is really huge monster.

I took slakware sources from Slackware 10.2, 
changed emacs.build:
1. tar xjvf *.tar.bz2 doesn't work, you need 
bunzip2 *.tar.bz2; tar xvf *.tar
2. patch from SL 3.9 doesn't accept --verbose
so simply remove --verbose
and chmod a+x emacs.build and ./emacs.build

After building I installed International
fonts (intlfonts-1.2.1.tar.gz) to let me
type in Vietnamese.
1. tar xzvf intlfonts-1.2.1.tar.gz
2. cd intlfonts-1.2.1
3. ./configure --with-fontdir=/usr/share/emacs/fonts
4. make install
5. cp Emacs.ap /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs
6. startx
7. xset +fp /usr/share/emacs/fonts
8. xset fp rehash
9. emacs

10. M-x set-input-method vietnamese-viqr ;)


Chris

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