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: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:47:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170724202231.GA19721@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <20170726160638.GA20774@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <20170730121259.GB2137@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 1501462089 17785 195.159.176.226 (31 Jul 2017 00:48:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:48:09 +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 Mon Jul 31 02:48:05 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 1dbysM-0004C4-R0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 02:48:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56893 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbysS-0002kv-Mu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbysM-0002kp-Oh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:48:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbysL-0001eS-WC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60204) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbysL-0001eM-T0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:48:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbysL-0005n6-NM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:48:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:48:01 +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=B27810.150146204522215 (code B ref 27810); Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:48:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27810) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Jul 2017 00:47:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34648 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbyrl-0005mE-9t for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55271) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbyrj-0005m2-Gl for 27810@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbyrd-00015T-Kp for 27810@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:47:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40452) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbyrQ-0000sx-M7; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:47:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dbyrQ-0002Y0-5P; Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:47:04 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170730121259.GB2137@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (message from Alan Third on Sun, 30 Jul 2017 13:12:59 +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:135180 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. ]]] > Should I stop working on this? I honestly don’t believe it will have > any effect on cross compilation, and the default is to not include the > feature detection code unless you ask for it explicitly. I wasn't trying to make a decision about this particular question. I was disagreeing with the general idea that it was better to do Autoconf tests by running programs rather than by just compiling them. If your code would have no effect at all other than on MacOS, it can't do much harm. -- 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.