* Supported platforms @ 2019-06-14 20:42 Daniele Nicolodi 2019-06-15 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* 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 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread 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 Even if prepared, such a list will quickly become outdated, as new systems are created and old go into oblivion. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Supported platforms 2019-06-15 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-06-17 18:20 ` Daniele Nicolodi 2019-06-17 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* 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? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2019-06-17 18:45 UTC | newest] Thread overview: 4+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed -- links below jump to the message on this page -- 2019-06-14 20:42 Supported platforms Daniele Nicolodi 2019-06-15 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii 2019-06-17 18:20 ` Daniele Nicolodi 2019-06-17 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox; as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).