From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roland Winkler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Emacs pretest 24.2.90 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:34:22 -0600 Message-ID: <20660.49502.56966.512844@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <87ehjjgerp.fsf@gnu.org> <87sj7xwt5o.fsf@gnu.org> <87624rpu2r.fsf@gnu.org> <9729A6E854424176B65340F2406C210B@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354023279 29786 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2012 13:34:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:34:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 27 14:34:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TdLJJ-0003I2-If for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:34:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60466 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdLJ8-0000Ru-H3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdLJ3-0000RR-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:34:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdLIv-0006Ny-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:34:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdLIv-0006Ns-1x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:34:25 -0500 Original-Received: from adsl-68-77-24-38.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.77.24.38]:51538 helo=regnitz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdLIu-0002OH-Dd; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:34:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <9729A6E854424176B65340F2406C210B@us.oracle.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.2 trial under 24.2.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155106 Archived-At: On Mon Nov 26 2012 Drew Adams wrote: > > > Yet I was wondering: what information is generally useful here to > > > characterize "one's build platform"? I copied some information from > > > buffers created via `report-emacs-bug' - obviously a clumsy > > > procedure. > > > > You can insert the Emacs version at point with C-u M-x > > emacs-version RET > > I too have sometimes used `report-emacs-bug', just to get the > complete version info. Perhaps `C-u C-u' with `emacs-version' > could provide that info? > > I'm talking about the difference between these two (the first is from > `report-emacs-bug', and provides more info about the build): My question is first: what information is possibly relevant or helpful here? I thought that the main purpose of emacs-version was to distinguish the different (historical) versions of emacs. During the pretest of a particular emacs version, this might not provide too much variety. I guess under GNU linux the most basic information about the build platform is provided by "lsb_release -d". report-emacs-bug includes the output of this command. But again: I don't know what is possibly most useful during a pretest.