From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Ali Bahrami <ali_gnu@emvision.com>
Cc: 1191@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1191: How to contribute back changes for Emacs on Solaris
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:47:05 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812111747.mBBHl5Vb000507@mothra.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F80A14.7010502@emvision.com> (Ali Bahrami's message of "Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:44:20 -0600")
Ali Bahrami <ali_gnu@emvision.com> writes:
> This message is a follow up to one I sent to emacs-devel
> last July:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-07/msg00070.html
>
> The question had to do with why emacs wasn't using dldump()
> to produce the dumped executable under Solaris. It had been using it
> up until 2002, at which point it was commented out, and it wasn't
> clear why. No one knew the reason, and the consensus was "try it and see".
>
> Since then, I've done some work to integrate emacs with
> OpenSolaris as a standard package. I turned on dldump(),
> and have been using the emacs binaries built with it daily
> since July without issue.
>
> So now, I have some things I'd like to send back up stream
> and get integrated into the emacs distribution:
>
> - Man pages for things installed to /usr/bin that didn't
> already have a manpage:
> b2m.1
> ebrowse.1
> grep-changelog.1
> rcs-checkin.1
> - Small changes to config.guess and configure to properly
> detect amd64 hardware running Solaris.
> - Use dldump() instead of the generic ELF dump code
> under Solaris.
> - Use the system malloc under Solaris (at least with
> amd64, emacs crashes without this).
>
> The manpages can be viewed at:
>
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/man/man1/b2m.1
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/man/man1/ebrowse.1
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/man/man1/grep-changelog.1
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/man/man1/rcs-checkin.1
>
> and the patches at:
>
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/patch/config.guess.patch
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/patch/configure.patch
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/patch/dldump.patch
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/patch/sysmalloc.patch
>
> The patches are for emacs 22.1. I've examined 22.3, and the
> changes are applicable there as well. If 22.1 diffs are OK,
> that's easiest for me, but if not, then please let me know what
> I need to supply. These diffs are all very short, affecting a
> small number of lines in each file.
>
> So my questions: How can I go about submitting these changes?
> Is there someone who might work with me to get this done?
> What format would you need to get them in, and where can
> I send them?
Your patches for the Solaris configuration are now in.
config.guess has been updated from upstream with your changes.
There's a man page for ebrowse now.
Not sure what to do about the man pages for b2m, grep-changelog, and
rcs-checkin. You might want to open a separate bug for them.
Thanks
--dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-11 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200812120309.mBC392kD002742@mothra.ics.uci.edu>
2008-10-17 3:44 ` bug#1191: How to contribute back changes for Emacs on Solaris Ali Bahrami
2008-10-17 6:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-17 16:27 ` Ali Bahrami
2008-10-17 23:52 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-19 3:18 ` Ali Bahrami
2008-10-20 22:29 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-23 6:45 ` Ali Bahrami
2008-10-23 16:23 ` Ali Bahrami
2008-10-23 19:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-23 22:51 ` Ali Bahrami
2008-10-23 23:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-10-23 23:21 ` Ali Bahrami
2008-10-24 0:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-11 17:47 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-12-11 18:10 ` Ali Bahrami
2008-12-11 18:14 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-11 18:21 ` Ali Bahrami
2008-12-12 2:55 ` Ali Bahrami
2008-12-12 3:15 ` bug#1191: marked as done (How to contribute back changes for Emacs on Solaris) Emacs bug Tracking System
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