From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Drop OS X 10.4
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:11:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2A2D6A35-0804-412D-BEA4-A23592FFC244@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8BBA848D-F715-4284-AC3B-DFC96B103D57@swipnet.se>
Hello.
I have added a test to configure. But I was wondering about crosscompiling. We really do not support that, do we?
Jan D.
14 okt 2014 kl. 07:08 skrev Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>:
> Hello.
>
> 13 okt 2014 kl. 18:48 skrev Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>:
>
>> Jan Djärv wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think so. After all, if you are building for X or no toolkit,
>>> it is basically just UNIX with an unexec that works on Intel. I don't
>>> think that we should prevent configurations that we in principle
>>> support (X, no-X, unexmacosx.c). A check for PowerPC might be in order
>>> though as we don't support that.
>>>
>>> I could add that, but I don't have any PowerPC to test it on.
>>
>> Oh, but all the other points still apply:
>>
>> OS X 10.4 itself is unsupported for 5+ years.
>> No Emacs developer has it to test on.
>> All the bug reports about it come from one person (who seems to be doing
>> an "explore the compilation parameter space" thing rather than actually
>> wanting to use it).
>> All the bug reports are about PPC;
>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?include=subject%3A10.4;package=emacs
>> (whether this means it is working fine on non-ppc, I have no data for! :) )
>>
>> So personally I see no value to pretending it is still supported, and
>> think it might as well be explicitly dropped.
>>
>
> I have to do some other test, because the test relies on Cocoa dev environment being present.
> Stand by.
>
>>> A check for PowerPC might be in order though as we don't support that.
>>
>> Should be easy?
>>
>> *** configure.ac 2014-10-12 22:56:45 +0000
>> --- configure.ac 2014-10-13 16:47:29 +0000
>> ***************
>> *** 557,563 ****
>> *-apple-darwin* )
>> case "${canonical}" in
>> i[3456]86-* ) ;;
>> ! powerpc-* ) ;;
>> x86_64-* ) ;;
>> * ) unported=yes ;;
>> esac
>> --- 557,563 ----
>> *-apple-darwin* )
>> case "${canonical}" in
>> i[3456]86-* ) ;;
>> ! powerpc-* ) unported=yes ;;
>> x86_64-* ) ;;
>> * ) unported=yes ;;
>> esac
>
> Thanks, I checked that in.
>
> Jan D.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-14 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-10 15:59 Drop OS X 10.4 Glenn Morris
2014-10-10 16:18 ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-10 16:21 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-10 16:31 ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-10 17:13 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-10 17:57 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-10-11 7:24 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-11 9:20 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-10-11 12:59 ` Juergen Fenn
2014-10-11 17:30 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-10-11 18:25 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-12 8:37 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-12 15:02 ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-12 16:06 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-12 18:27 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-12 23:10 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-13 5:01 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-13 5:04 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-13 16:48 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-14 5:08 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-14 17:11 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2014-10-14 17:26 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-15 17:42 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-10 16:28 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-19 9:04 ` Ivan Kanis
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