From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: srs/s/umips.h Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:46:50 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87odnw3ddm.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171532845 17335 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2007 09:47:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:47:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 15 10:47:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HHdCs-000419-Om for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:47:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHdCs-0007Cb-4P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:47:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HHdCe-0007C9-5n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:47:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HHdCc-0007B5-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:46:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHdCc-0007An-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:46:58 -0500 Original-Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15] helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HHdCX-0005xA-Hc; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:46:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76973215DE; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:46:51 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Sorry, wrong ZIP CODE!! In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:06:20 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66414 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > (Indeed, there's nothing in configure.in telling the compilation > process to include this file, so it's literally unused. The file s= aid > that it was for running Emacs on the "Mips operating system", which > I've never heard of. > > It was the operating system of Mips machines, in the 80s I suppose, > before Mips was acquired by SGI. Is that the same as RISC/os? That would fit in the time frame. > It was installed at a time when users manually specified the > configuration files to use. There was no configure file until two > years later. Maybe umips was obsolete by the time `configure' > was added. mips-mips-riscos* is still supported by configure. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."