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bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:43:44 -0400 |
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> > > 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.
> I’m afraid I don’t understand why it’s a problem for cross
> compilation.
Autoconf tests that test the compilation environment
will automatically do the right thing in cross-compilation.
That's why we try to implement ALL tests that way.
> At the moment we don’t even provide any way of building
> Emacs on one version of macOS that is guaranteed to work on another
> version of macOS, never mind cross‐compiling the NS port from another
> platform.
Ideally cross-compiling should work from any platform to any platform
if you have installed suitable cross-compilation tools. If this
does not work, in principle that is a bug in Emacs. I am not saying
it is an extremely important bug to fix, but we should not introduce
more of them.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Alan Third, 2017/07/24
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/25
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Alan Third, 2017/07/26
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection,
Richard Stallman <=
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/27
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/28
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/28
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/29
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/30
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/29
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Alan Third, 2017/07/30
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/07/30
- bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/30