From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: configure.in support for FreeBSD ia64/sparc64/powerpc Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:17:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87tz79ezo5.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <200611032145.kA3Ljj6x078515@kobe.laptop> <87irhv28mx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20061106141015.GB3755@kobe.laptop> <18763.42713.941380.795066@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <200812191716.mBJHG0oC016436@mothra.ics.uci.edu> <18763.58258.187720.412172@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87prjo7xla.fsf@kobe.laptop> <18808.21525.878956.953074@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87y6x23dgj.fsf@kobe.laptop> <878wp2ab5w.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <18826.35104.33516.369804@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <87myd1http.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233844189 20408 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2009 14:29:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 05 15:31:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LV5Fh-0006wa-0y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:30:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35892 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LV5EN-0003KO-Rd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:29:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LV531-00045m-4U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:17:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LV52x-00044w-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:17:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44411 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LV52x-00044i-1y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:17:39 -0500 Original-Received: from igloo.linux.gr ([62.1.205.36]:47970) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LV52w-0003zf-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:17:38 -0500 Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl179-104.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.0.104]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n15EHH1v021730 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:17:22 +0200 Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n15EHGMX012449; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:17:16 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Original-Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n15EHEDl012448; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:17:14 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) In-Reply-To: <87myd1http.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:55:14 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) X-MailScanner-ID: n15EHH1v021730 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.492, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL -0.09, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108788 Archived-At: On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:55:14 -0500, Chong Yidong wrote: >Ulrich Mueller writes: >> As I see, with a conditional for __sparc64__ only (which is the right >> thing in my opinion). >> >> However, one week later there is the following commit: >> >> >> So was there really a problem with this on non-BSD platforms? >> (I'm just curious.) > > Dan, did you see any problem with this patch on non-BSD platforms? FWIW, I've only tried the original patch on FreeBSD, but Ulrich and other Gentoo people have contacted me about this. I don't know how well the patch works on GNU/Linux though :/