bug#1191: How to contribute back changes for Emacs on Solaris

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Ali Bahrami <ali_gnu@emvision.com> writes:

  > This message is a follow up to one I sent to emacs-devel
  > last July:
  > 
  > 	http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-07/msg00070.html
  > 
  > The question had to do with why emacs wasn't using dldump()
  > to produce the dumped executable under Solaris. It had been using it
  > up until 2002, at which point it was commented out, and it wasn't
  > clear why. No one knew the reason, and the consensus was "try it and see".
  > 
  > Since then, I've done some work to integrate emacs with
  > OpenSolaris as a standard package. I turned on dldump(),
  > and have been using the emacs binaries built with it daily
  > since July without issue.
  > 
  > So now, I have some things I'd like to send back up stream
  > and get integrated into the emacs distribution:
  > 
  > 	- Man pages for things installed to /usr/bin that didn't
  > 	  already have a manpage:
  > 		b2m.1
  > 		ebrowse.1
  > 		grep-changelog.1
  > 		rcs-checkin.1
  > 	- Small changes to config.guess and configure to properly
  > 	  detect amd64 hardware running Solaris.
  > 	- Use dldump() instead of the generic ELF dump code
  > 	  under Solaris.
  > 	- Use the system malloc under Solaris (at least with
  > 	  amd64, emacs crashes without this).
  > 
  > The manpages can be viewed at:
  > 
  > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/man/man1/b2m.1
  > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/man/man1/ebrowse.1
  > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/man/man1/grep-changelog.1
  > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/man/man1/rcs-checkin.1
  > 
  > and the patches at:
  > 
  > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/patch/config.guess.patch
  > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/patch/configure.patch
  > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/patch/dldump.patch
  > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/emacs/augment/patch/sysmalloc.patch
  > 
  > The patches are for emacs 22.1. I've examined 22.3, and the
  > changes are applicable there as well. If 22.1 diffs are OK,
  > that's easiest for me, but if not, then please let me know what
  > I need to supply. These diffs are all very short, affecting a
  > small number of lines in each file.
  > 
  > So my questions: How can I go about submitting these changes?
  > Is there someone who might work with me to get this done?
  > What format would you need to get them in, and where can
  > I send them?

Your patches for the Solaris configuration are now in.
config.guess has been updated from upstream with your changes.
There's a man page for ebrowse now.
Not sure what to do about the man pages for b2m, grep-changelog, and
rcs-checkin.  You might want to open a separate bug for them.

Thanks

        --dan