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Re: Drop OS X 10.4
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Jan Djärv |
Subject: |
Re: Drop OS X 10.4 |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:11:19 +0200 |
Hello.
I have added a test to configure. But I was wondering about crosscompiling.
We really do not support that, do we?
Jan D.
14 okt 2014 kl. 07:08 skrev Jan Djärv <address@hidden>:
> Hello.
>
> 13 okt 2014 kl. 18:48 skrev Glenn Morris <address@hidden>:
>
>> Jan Djärv wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think so. After all, if you are building for X or no toolkit,
>>> it is basically just UNIX with an unexec that works on Intel. I don't
>>> think that we should prevent configurations that we in principle
>>> support (X, no-X, unexmacosx.c). A check for PowerPC might be in order
>>> though as we don't support that.
>>>
>>> I could add that, but I don't have any PowerPC to test it on.
>>
>> Oh, but all the other points still apply:
>>
>> OS X 10.4 itself is unsupported for 5+ years.
>> No Emacs developer has it to test on.
>> All the bug reports about it come from one person (who seems to be doing
>> an "explore the compilation parameter space" thing rather than actually
>> wanting to use it).
>> All the bug reports are about PPC;
>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?include=subject%3A10.4;package=emacs
>> (whether this means it is working fine on non-ppc, I have no data for! :) )
>>
>> So personally I see no value to pretending it is still supported, and
>> think it might as well be explicitly dropped.
>>
>
> I have to do some other test, because the test relies on Cocoa dev
> environment being present.
> Stand by.
>
>>> A check for PowerPC might be in order though as we don't support that.
>>
>> Should be easy?
>>
>> *** configure.ac 2014-10-12 22:56:45 +0000
>> --- configure.ac 2014-10-13 16:47:29 +0000
>> ***************
>> *** 557,563 ****
>> *-apple-darwin* )
>> case "${canonical}" in
>> i[3456]86-* ) ;;
>> ! powerpc-* ) ;;
>> x86_64-* ) ;;
>> * ) unported=yes ;;
>> esac
>> --- 557,563 ----
>> *-apple-darwin* )
>> case "${canonical}" in
>> i[3456]86-* ) ;;
>> ! powerpc-* ) unported=yes ;;
>> x86_64-* ) ;;
>> * ) unported=yes ;;
>> esac
>
> Thanks, I checked that in.
>
> Jan D.
>
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, (continued)
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Glenn Morris, 2014/10/12
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Glenn Morris, 2014/10/12
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Jan Djärv, 2014/10/13
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Jan Djärv, 2014/10/13
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Glenn Morris, 2014/10/13
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Jan Djärv, 2014/10/14
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4,
Jan Djärv <=
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Glenn Morris, 2014/10/14
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Jan Djärv, 2014/10/15
Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Jan Djärv, 2014/10/10
Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Ivan Kanis, 2014/10/19