From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, 18205@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18205: Obsolete patterns in auto-mode-alist
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 00:19:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOnWdojy1V1pfc25hPEibKNN8Q9+XuYaOsa-mTFC6td_ZLNt+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k36jms6n.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 8 August 2014 07:06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 01:35:35 -0400
> > From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> > CC: rgm@gnu.org, 18205@debbugs.gnu.org, rrt@sc3d.org
> >
> > > I don't know whether FreeDOS is a 100% free OS.
> >
> > Its license is GPL.
> >
> > Is it complete and self-hosting?
>
> Yes.
>
I spent a while investigating Emacs on FreeDOS. The results go way beyond
the scope of this bug report, so I'll file other bugs, or write to
gnu-prog-discuss as appropriate. In summary, though:
1. Emacs 23.3, as distributed for DJGPP, works fine on FreeDOS.
2. The MS-DOS build system was broken in Emacs 24.3, i.e. the most recent
release. (There are some problems that may be specific to FreeDOS, such as
an inability to understand "@call" in config.bat, but the lack of the
msdos/autogen/ directory in the tarball means that the build won't work; it
still doesn't work after copying that directory, though I think the
remaining problems are down to the lack of long file-name support in some
of the native FreeDOS utilities.)
3. Rather than try to repair the MS-DOS build system (which remains,
AFAICS, the only documented way to build Emacs for MS-DOS), it seems more
productive to get the normal build system working. Given that DJGPP
distributes a reasonably comprehensive and up-to-date set of GNU tools,
this shouldn't be too hard. I built a distribution of Bazaar head, and
after hacking it to accept the msdosdjgpp OS name, and a couple of other
small hacks that I'll write up, it gets all the way through the configure
script, crashing with an error I've not yet been able to diagnose when it
tries to write config.status.
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-05 23:58 bug#18205: Obsolete patterns in auto-mode-alist Reuben Thomas
2014-08-06 17:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-06 17:47 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-06 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 0:14 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-07 2:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 9:39 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 10:07 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 10:18 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 18:24 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-07 12:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 18:24 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-07 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-08 5:35 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-08 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-08 19:11 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-08 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-08 20:54 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-08 23:19 ` Reuben Thomas [this message]
2014-08-09 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-09 7:41 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 7:44 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-09 9:11 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-09 11:57 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-09 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 4:25 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-06 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-06 22:05 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 2:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 12:02 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-07 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 11:54 ` Reuben Thomas
2014-08-06 23:57 ` Glenn Morris
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