* Supported platforms
@ 2019-06-14 20:42 Daniele Nicolodi
2019-06-15 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Daniele Nicolodi @ 2019-06-14 20:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs developers
Hello,
is there anywhere a list of the platforms (operating system and
architecture) supported by Emacs? I found etc/MACHINES in the Emacs
sources, but it does not seem to contain an exhaustive list.
Thank you.
Cheers,
Dan
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* Re: Supported platforms
2019-06-14 20:42 Supported platforms Daniele Nicolodi
@ 2019-06-15 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-17 18:20 ` Daniele Nicolodi
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-06-15 6:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniele Nicolodi; +Cc: emacs-devel
> From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:42:32 -0600
>
> is there anywhere a list of the platforms (operating system and
> architecture) supported by Emacs?
I don't think there are innate limitations. Any platform that
supports running a Posix shell, GNU Make, a C99-compliant C compiler,
and a standard C library, will do.
Is there some specific question that you are interested in, or a
specific platform? And also, what version of Emacs are we talking
about? Versions before 27 could have problems in the dumping process.
> I found etc/MACHINES in the Emacs sources, but it does not seem to
> contain an exhaustive list.
etc/MACHINES was relevant when Emacs included a special header file
for every platform it supported. That system was tossed long ago, so
I don't think an exhaustive list is possible anymore, although in
principle such a list could be composed for a given time instance.
Even if prepared, such a list will quickly become outdated, as new
systems are created and old go into oblivion.
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* Re: Supported platforms
2019-06-15 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2019-06-17 18:20 ` Daniele Nicolodi
2019-06-17 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Daniele Nicolodi @ 2019-06-17 18:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: emacs-devel
On 15-06-2019 00:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
>> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:42:32 -0600
>>
>> is there anywhere a list of the platforms (operating system and
>> architecture) supported by Emacs?
>
> I don't think there are innate limitations. Any platform that
> supports running a Posix shell, GNU Make, a C99-compliant C compiler,
> and a standard C library, will do.
Where are you drawing the line to call those the only required
dependencies? For example, Emacs uses autoconf for the build process,
thus I guess independently of the fact that autoconf support exists for
the given platform, also an m4 implementation is required. Also, what
standard C library?
> Is there some specific question that you are interested in, or a
> specific platform? And also, what version of Emacs are we talking
> about? Versions before 27 could have problems in the dumping process.
It is a question mostly out of curiosity. But there have been talks
recently of working on improvements to the build process, and I am
trying to understand what systems Emacs is targeting, what systems the
build process needs to support, and on which systems Emacs is tested.
Cheers,
Dan
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* Re: Supported platforms
2019-06-17 18:20 ` Daniele Nicolodi
@ 2019-06-17 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-06-17 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniele Nicolodi; +Cc: emacs-devel
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:20:56 -0600
>
> On 15-06-2019 00:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
> >> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:42:32 -0600
> >>
> >> is there anywhere a list of the platforms (operating system and
> >> architecture) supported by Emacs?
> >
> > I don't think there are innate limitations. Any platform that
> > supports running a Posix shell, GNU Make, a C99-compliant C compiler,
> > and a standard C library, will do.
>
> Where are you drawing the line to call those the only required
> dependencies? For example, Emacs uses autoconf for the build process,
> thus I guess independently of the fact that autoconf support exists for
> the given platform, also an m4 implementation is required.
Not AFAIK, not for building a release tarball. For that, you only
need a Posix-compatible shell, capable of running a configure script.
So I think what I mentioned are indeed the only required dependencies.
You will need more only if you want to build from Git.
> Also, what standard C library?
A C99-compliant library will do, although we don't even assume that
100%.
> > Is there some specific question that you are interested in, or a
> > specific platform? And also, what version of Emacs are we talking
> > about? Versions before 27 could have problems in the dumping process.
>
> It is a question mostly out of curiosity. But there have been talks
> recently of working on improvements to the build process, and I am
> trying to understand what systems Emacs is targeting, what systems the
> build process needs to support, and on which systems Emacs is tested.
Well, is your curiosity satisfied?
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