From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: add etc/PROBLEMS entry for building 32-bit exe on 64-bit system Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:44:58 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168307147 15702 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2007 01:45:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 01:45:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 09 02:45:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H463Z-0002zB-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:45:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H463Z-0001HI-3v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:45:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H463O-0001H7-F4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H463N-0001Gm-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H463N-0001Gj-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H463M-0000k7-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:45:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1H462t-0004Wv-DW; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:44:59 -0500 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Spook: interception Pine Gap Steve Case Geraldton CESID USCODE X-Ran: Yz$iQ*6Kh$+()r`Ugn#_=U"4P#\|l$oh+C3al$7ZOCep2"NZDf"(_]B]t|B/dU{l/x{~,Q X-Hue: red X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65035 Archived-At: I suggest adding something like the following to etc/PROBLEMS and etc/TODO. I not infrequently want to compile 32-bit apps on 64-bit systems (so that they can be run on otherwise identical 64- and 32-bit systems). *** PROBLEMS 16 Dec 2006 14:00:15 -0000 1.202 --- PROBLEMS 9 Jan 2007 01:39:51 -0000 *************** *** 2355,2360 **** --- 2355,2366 ---- the problem, install the current version of GNU Sed, then rerun Emacs's configure script. + *** Building a 32-bit executable on a 64-bit GNU/Linux architecture fails. + + For example, if CFLAGS=-m32 is passed to configure, the resulting + build will fail. There is no fix for this problem at present - when + building on a 64-bit platform, you must build a 64-bit executable. + *** Building the Cygwin port for MS-Windows can fail with some GCC version Building Emacs 22 with Cygwin builds of GCC 3.4.4-1 and 3.4.4-2 is *** TODO 2 Jan 2007 18:29:37 -0000 1.137 --- TODO 9 Jan 2007 01:40:09 -0000 *************** *** 159,164 **** --- 159,167 ---- * Other features we would like: + ** Make it possible to build a 32-bit executable on 64-bit systems. + See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-10/msg00462.html + ** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el. ** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are