From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Supported platforms Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:45:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83ef3st5ib.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83muijwds3.fsf@gnu.org> <97896823-3052-6616-7ded-3424a112469c@grinta.net> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="27253"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniele Nicolodi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 17 21:06:51 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hcwxv-0006zM-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:06:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51254 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcwxu-0000Vc-92 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcwdR-00089Y-RN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54927) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcwdP-0005F6-Cw; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:45:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2854 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hcwdO-0006dV-GZ; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:45:39 -0400 In-reply-to: <97896823-3052-6616-7ded-3424a112469c@grinta.net> (message from Daniele Nicolodi on Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:20:56 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237796 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Daniele Nicolodi > Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:20:56 -0600 > > On 15-06-2019 00:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Daniele Nicolodi > >> 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?