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Re: Supported platforms
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Daniele Nicolodi |
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Re: Supported platforms |
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Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:20:56 -0600 |
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On 15-06-2019 00:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Daniele Nicolodi <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:42:32 -0600
>>
>> is there anywhere a list of the platforms (operating system and
>> architecture) supported by Emacs?
>
> I don't think there are innate limitations. Any platform that
> supports running a Posix shell, GNU Make, a C99-compliant C compiler,
> and a standard C library, will do.
Where are you drawing the line to call those the only required
dependencies? For example, Emacs uses autoconf for the build process,
thus I guess independently of the fact that autoconf support exists for
the given platform, also an m4 implementation is required. Also, what
standard C library?
> Is there some specific question that you are interested in, or a
> specific platform? And also, what version of Emacs are we talking
> about? Versions before 27 could have problems in the dumping process.
It is a question mostly out of curiosity. But there have been talks
recently of working on improvements to the build process, and I am
trying to understand what systems Emacs is targeting, what systems the
build process needs to support, and on which systems Emacs is tested.
Cheers,
Dan