From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Drop OS X 10.4
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 12:48:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n97g03vrtg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DF41EF60-F492-4253-8610-F10C96BB1D8D@swipnet.se> ("Jan Djärv"'s message of "Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:04:51 +0200")
Jan Djärv wrote:
> I don't think so. After all, if you are building for X or no toolkit,
> it is basically just UNIX with an unexec that works on Intel. I don't
> think that we should prevent configurations that we in principle
> support (X, no-X, unexmacosx.c). A check for PowerPC might be in order
> though as we don't support that.
>
> I could add that, but I don't have any PowerPC to test it on.
Oh, but all the other points still apply:
OS X 10.4 itself is unsupported for 5+ years.
No Emacs developer has it to test on.
All the bug reports about it come from one person (who seems to be doing
an "explore the compilation parameter space" thing rather than actually
wanting to use it).
All the bug reports are about PPC;
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?include=subject%3A10.4;package=emacs
(whether this means it is working fine on non-ppc, I have no data for! :) )
So personally I see no value to pretending it is still supported, and
think it might as well be explicitly dropped.
> A check for PowerPC might be in order though as we don't support that.
Should be easy?
*** configure.ac 2014-10-12 22:56:45 +0000
--- configure.ac 2014-10-13 16:47:29 +0000
***************
*** 557,563 ****
*-apple-darwin* )
case "${canonical}" in
i[3456]86-* ) ;;
! powerpc-* ) ;;
x86_64-* ) ;;
* ) unported=yes ;;
esac
--- 557,563 ----
*-apple-darwin* )
case "${canonical}" in
i[3456]86-* ) ;;
! powerpc-* ) unported=yes ;;
x86_64-* ) ;;
* ) unported=yes ;;
esac
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-13 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-10 15:59 Drop OS X 10.4 Glenn Morris
2014-10-10 16:18 ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-10 16:21 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-10 16:31 ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-10 17:13 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-10 17:57 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2014-10-11 7:24 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-11 9:20 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-10-11 12:59 ` Juergen Fenn
2014-10-11 17:30 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-10-11 18:25 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-12 8:37 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-12 15:02 ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-12 16:06 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-12 18:27 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-12 23:10 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-13 5:01 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-13 5:04 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-13 16:48 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2014-10-14 5:08 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-14 17:11 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-14 17:26 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-15 17:42 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-10 16:28 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-19 9:04 ` Ivan Kanis
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