From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jared Greenwald Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Supported Platforms Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 06:13:49 -0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EA3C45D.7000503@zk3.dec.com> References: <3E9C21FD.1030608@zk3.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050920138 7108 80.91.224.249 (21 Apr 2003 10:15:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:15:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 12:15:36 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197YKl-0001qP-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:15:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197YKl-0007Wz-04 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 06:15:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197YK7-00073s-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 06:14:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197YJt-0006mI-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 06:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com ([161.114.1.208]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197YJ1-0006Bo-00; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 06:13:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay01.cce.cpqcorp.net (mailrelay01.cce.cpqcorp.net [16.47.68.171]) by ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6325295F9; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 05:13:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from kitche.zk3.dec.com (kitche2.zk3.dec.com [16.140.160.162]) by mailrelay01.cce.cpqcorp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9950513F9; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 05:13:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from zk3.dec.com by kitche.zk3.dec.com (8.9.3/1.1.27.5/27Oct00-1235PM) id GAA0001320887; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 06:13:43 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4855 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4855 Richard Stallman wrote: > On the list of platforms, Alpha is listed as an unsupported platform. > I'm not sure about 21.3, but I definately know that 21.2.3 works on > Alpha running Tru64 V5.1B (with some open source libs - which are > available at HP). > >Libraries which are open source may or may not be free software; also, >even if they are free software, their licenses may or may not be >compatible with the GPL. Could you please show me the precise >licenses of the necessary libraries? (The names would be useful too.) >Once I get that info, I can record the appropriate info about this >configuration. > This is an excellent question. I has been a while since I did configured my Alpha box, so I'm not 100% sure I rememeber everything on there. I do remember checking out the open source software distribution that was put out with the V5.1B release, so I'm not quite sure how much I had to install to get emacs to compile. I'll look into it and get back to you. > I am thinking about downloading the latest and trying > it out on Tru64. > >Do you mean Emacs 21.3, or the current development version? >It would be useful to test either one, or both of them separately. > I'll try 21.3 first. -Jared