From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Supported platforms Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:42:04 +0300 Message-ID: <83muijwds3.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="93525"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniele Nicolodi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 15 08:42:16 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hc2OG-000OCd-Hq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:42:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hc2OE-0008Gk-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hc2O1-0008Gd-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60587) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hc2O0-00029I-8z; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1147 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hc2Nz-0007JV-LQ; Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:42:00 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Daniele Nicolodi on Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:42:32 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237654 Archived-At: > From: Daniele Nicolodi > Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:42:32 -0600 > > is there anywhere a list of the platforms (operating system and > architecture) supported by Emacs? I don't think there are innate limitations. Any platform that supports running a Posix shell, GNU Make, a C99-compliant C compiler, and a standard C library, will do. Is there some specific question that you are interested in, or a specific platform? And also, what version of Emacs are we talking about? Versions before 27 could have problems in the dumping process. > I found etc/MACHINES in the Emacs sources, but it does not seem to > contain an exhaustive list. etc/MACHINES was relevant when Emacs included a special header file for every platform it supported. That system was tossed long ago, so I don't think an exhaustive list is possible anymore, although in principle such a list could be composed for a given time instance. Even if prepared, such a list will quickly become outdated, as new systems are created and old go into oblivion.