From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ali Bahrami Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1191: How to contribute back changes for Emacs on Solaris Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:44:20 -0600 Message-ID: <48F80A14.7010502@emvision.com> Reply-To: Ali Bahrami , 1191@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224217060 19656 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2008 04:17:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:17:40 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 17 06:18:40 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KqgnQ-00074t-CY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48845 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqgGE-000523-CZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from vc7-1-94b.dsl.netrack.net ([199.45.162.234]:20180 helo=emvision.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KqgGE-0000iC-31 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from pod.emvision.com (pod.emvision.com [198.182.198.2]) by emvision.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m9H3iKCa002754 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:44:21 -0600 (MDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (emvision.com [198.182.198.5]); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:44:21 -0600 (MDT) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:10:03 -0400 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:17:10 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:21581 Archived-At: 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? Thanks! - Ali