Re: Supported Platforms

[Jared Greenwald <jaredg@zk3.dec.com>]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>    On the list of platforms, Alpha is listed as an unsupported platform.  
>    I'm not sure about 21.3, but I definately know that 21.2.3 works on 
>    Alpha running Tru64 V5.1B (with some open source libs - which are 
>    available at HP).
>
>Libraries which are open source may or may not be free software; also,
>even if they are free software, their licenses may or may not be
>compatible with the GPL.  Could you please show me the precise
>licenses of the necessary libraries?  (The names would be useful too.)
>Once I get that info, I can record the appropriate info about this
>configuration.
>
This is an excellent question.  I has been a while since I did 
configured my Alpha box, so I'm not 100% sure I rememeber everything on 
there.  I do remember checking out the open source software distribution 
that was put out with the V5.1B release, so I'm not quite sure how much 
I had to install to get emacs to compile.  I'll look into it and get 
back to you.

>      I am thinking about downloading the latest and trying 
>    it out on Tru64.
>
>Do you mean Emacs 21.3, or the current development version?
>It would be useful to test either one, or both of them separately.
>
I'll try 21.3 first.

-Jared