From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniele Nicolodi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Supported platforms Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:20:56 -0600 Message-ID: <97896823-3052-6616-7ded-3424a112469c@grinta.net> References: <83muijwds3.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="31775"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 17 21:07:45 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 1hcwym-000892-24 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:07:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51270 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcwyk-0002eh-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60147) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcwFe-0001pZ-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:21:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcwFd-0004ao-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from zed.grinta.net ([109.74.203.128]:42588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcwFa-0004WO-TT; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from 688dnmac.campus.nist.gov (unknown [132.163.81.39]) (Authenticated sender: daniele) by zed.grinta.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1FD5AE0B62; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:20:59 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=grinta.net; s=mail; t=1560795660; bh=XUaEd8DWnRDzSBiPU3dQKsyjFq4k8YjEP6lwWQ2C1nM=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=gAwCq+Z2EMFiCK2W0mbxH9tQkDJCecPGtKyFH3vvbGvZVItA50TC7y99G/pIMQ20a QM7aY/T93ySmjMR9VOyDciYAGBG+kXY5VtYNFiarVnT8OhpBL8m6HQd97MABldyq6G AT2NqwiTNFcKBPoR1CNr9mdJn6qfGeBgUQFA+Dak= In-Reply-To: <83muijwds3.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 109.74.203.128 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:237797 Archived-At: 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. 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