Re: Drop OS X 10.4

["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.