From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Waldek Hebisch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on AMD64 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 21:40:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133556413 25085 80.91.229.2 (2 Dec 2005 20:46:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 20:46:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 02 21:46:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EiHkT-0004bg-MM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:43:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EiHkT-0002lh-Ff for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EiHkI-0002kr-2s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:43:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EiHkF-0002it-In for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:43:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EiHkF-0002ip-CI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:43:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [156.17.86.1] (helo=hera.math.uni.wroc.pl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EiHkH-0005go-4X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:43:05 -0500 Original-Received: from hebisch by hera.math.uni.wroc.pl with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EiHi1-0007XD-00 for ; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:40:45 +0100 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL100 (25)] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:31624 Archived-At: Reiner Steib wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30 2005, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > > $ ../emacs-21.4/configure > > creating cache ./config.cache > > checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' > > systems. > > Check `etc/MACHINES' for recognized configuration names. > > > Is the message true? Mandrake 9.2 contains emacs-21.3 (I wanted to > > upgrade). > > Emacs 21.4 and 21.3 only differ by a single security fix. Probably > Mandrake has already fixed this problem in their emacs-21.3 package > without increasing the version to 21.4. Here on SuSE 9.2: > > ,---- > | $ rpm -q --changelog emacs|less +/movemail > | > | * Fri Feb 04 2005 - address@hidden > | > | - Security fix for movemail applied (bug #50237) > `---- Mandrake emacs is dated Aug 28 2003, so I doubt it has the fix :(. But that is minor thing: I would like to applay a patch to emacs, so first I need to build it from sources. Also, I think that other folks would like to know if GNU Emacs is supported on AMD64. -- Waldek Hebisch hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl