From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: configure.in support for FreeBSD ia64/sparc64/powerpc Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:39:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <200812292039.mBTKdate027716@mothra.ics.uci.edu> References: <200611032145.kA3Ljj6x078515@kobe.laptop> <87irhv28mx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20061106141015.GB3755@kobe.laptop> <18763.42713.941380.795066@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <200812191716.mBJHG0oC016436@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <18763.58258.187720.412172@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18765.64802.798989.140892@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <18777.10265.165132.46162@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <200812291954.mBTJsKnJ027581@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <18777.12531.501647.9714@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230583217 20714 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2008 20:40:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:40:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , Giorgos Keramidas , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 29 21:41:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LHOvH-0003rZ-0g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:41:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LHOu3-0005yC-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:39:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LHOty-0005xw-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:39:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LHOtx-0005wr-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:39:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56498 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LHOtx-0005wl-9u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:39:49 -0500 Original-Received: from barrelv2.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.114]:57442) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LHOtw-0000CQ-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:39:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by barrelv2.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mBTKda0V001126; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:39:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by mothra.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id mBTKdate027716; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:39:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <18777.12531.501647.9714@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:20:03 +0100") Original-Lines: 26 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: mBTKda0V001126 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107391 Archived-At: Ulrich Mueller writes: > >>>>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > > >> I don't know if it's sufficient as a test, but basic editing, as > >> well as byte-compiling a large package like CEDET seems to work > >> flawlessly on Solaris. > >> > >> So maybe the original patch should be committed, without the > >> additional check for FreeBSD. > > > If this has not been tested on all versions of Solaris that we > > currently support, that won't be a good idea at this point in the > > release process. > > Oh well. "flushw" is a hardware instruction of Sparc-V9, and the code > was now tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. Do you really expect > that there is a difference between different Solaris versions? As long as it has not been tested, it's not prudent to change. > > We know for sure that the original code works. > > It doesn't work on FreeBSD. You were proposing to change the Solaris code.