From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:59:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170724202231.GA19721@breton.holly.idiocy.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501038080 19989 195.159.176.226 (26 Jul 2017 03:01:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 03:01:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 27810@debbugs.gnu.org To: Alan Third Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 05:01:13 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daCZP-0004VD-6x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 05:01:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35443 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daCZT-0007HF-99 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39146) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daCZO-0007GS-53 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daCZK-0001L8-FR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:01:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:53892) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daCZK-0001L4-Cj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daCZK-0005cI-4n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:01:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 03:01:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 27810 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 27810-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B27810.150103800921524 (code B ref 27810); Wed, 26 Jul 2017 03:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27810) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jul 2017 03:00:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56569 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daCYT-0005b6-CN for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:00:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47767) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daCYQ-0005Zc-Gq for 27810@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daCYK-0000if-QJ for 27810@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:00:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42548) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daCY0-0000XS-8z; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:59:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1daCXy-0003z7-Ss; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:59:39 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170724202231.GA19721@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (message from Alan Third on Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:22:31 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:135003 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > We should be able to build a single binary that can detect new OS > features at runtime rather than depend on compile‐time macros. One reason to avoid doing it that way is for the sake of cross-compilation. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.