From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: system-type
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:59:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtz5mvh4t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uab7foso1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:29:50 +0200")
>> > The text sounds as if this is exhaustive list, but then what is the
>> > value defined by the NextSTEP port?
>> Depends: if it's running under Mac OS X, it'll be `darwin', if it's
>> running under GNU/Linux it'll be `gnu/linux', ...
> `darwin' is not in that list. Should it be added?
Yes. It's in the docstring.
> Also, what with all the other Unixoid systems (which I presume we
> still support), like *BSD, Solaris, etc.?
As the docstring explains: "Anything else indicates some sort of
Unix system."
>> > If `system-type' is not the way
>> > to distinguish the NextSTEP port from other platforms, then what is?
>> window-system?
> That would fail under -nw, I think. I used `(featurep 'ns)', which
> works, according to David Reitter.
Under -nw you shouldn't have to (need to) worry about nextstep.
At least, it seems no different than it was with Carbon before (or with
X11, ...).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-21 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-21 9:51 system-type Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-21 13:58 ` system-type Stefan Monnier
2009-03-21 14:29 ` system-type Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-21 18:59 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-03-21 20:21 ` system-type Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-21 21:04 ` system-type Stefan Monnier
2009-03-27 14:52 ` system-type Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-27 14:57 ` system-type Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-27 16:25 ` system-type Stefan Monnier
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