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: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:04:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170724202231.GA19721@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <20170726160638.GA20774@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <83r2x14wik.fsf@gnu.org> <834ltw4g73.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501355174 8641 195.159.176.226 (29 Jul 2017 19:06:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 19:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alan@idiocy.org, 27810@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 29 21:06:08 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 1dbX3v-0001hX-B3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:06:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53154 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX3x-000690-Ph for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:06:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX3s-00067g-4F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:06:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX3r-0002Ib-BH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:06:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:58906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX3r-0002IV-8r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:06:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX3q-00007n-DB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:06:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 19:06:02 +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=B27810.1501355118397 (code B ref 27810); Sat, 29 Jul 2017 19:06:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27810) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Jul 2017 19:05:18 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33350 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX38-00006K-DP for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:05:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41474) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX34-000062-UB for 27810@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX2y-0001i7-Vf for 27810@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:05:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39060) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX2f-0001EZ-B5; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dbX2e-0008W9-S2; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:04:48 -0400 In-reply-to: <834ltw4g73.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 28 Jul 2017 20:36:00 +0300) 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:135122 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. ]]] > > 'make emacs' can't run to completion in a cross-environment, but > > cross-compilation can work well enough in practice. Precisely, 'make > > temacs' can work with a cross compiler; then you can dump with temacs > > on the target platform. > You'd need to copy the entire build tree to the target platform for > that to work, Yes, but why is that a problem? so it's not really a cross-build anymore, not in the > usual sense. It is not 100% a cross-build. But it means you don't need a compiler for the target machine. -- 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.