From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Alex Corcoles <alex@corcoles.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interest in a Cosmopolitan build?
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:52:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1r1Hcy-000471-1i@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cfc21b9ce98c1de3ae59d4c0bc93e28b16a73105.camel@corcoles.net> (message from Alex Corcoles on Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:16:58 +0100)
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> If I understand correctly, they found a way to make something that fits
> all executable formats that major OSs support, plus they embed a zip
> with binaries and dependencies (e.g. parts of /usr/ for Emacs), plus
> they even convinced the POSIX stewards to loosen up the definition of
> what's an executable. Plus a new libc...
Could you possibly explain concretely what "a new libc" means in
this context? In what sense is it "new"? In what ways is it
different from the existing libc that any POSIX system would have?
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2023-11-08 20:16 ` Interest in a Cosmopolitan build? Alex Corcoles
2023-11-10 2:52 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2023-11-10 10:10 ` Alex Corcoles
2023-11-07 21:23 Alex Corcoles
2023-11-08 9:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-11-08 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 14:54 ` Björn Bidar
2023-11-08 20:11 ` Alex Corcoles
2023-11-09 0:00 ` Po Lu
2023-11-09 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 8:32 ` Po Lu
2023-11-09 8:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 11:02 ` Alex Corcoles
2023-11-09 2:34 ` Richard Stallman
2023-11-09 10:56 ` Alex Corcoles
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