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Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk
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Andy Moreton |
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Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk |
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Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:32:30 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (windows-nt) |
On Wed 17 Feb 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
>> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 23:22:40 +0000
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On mingw64 32bit configured with "--wide":
>> >
>> > - the build fails: bootstrap-emacs.exe crashes when compiling lisp).
>> > gdb does not produce anything informative in the backtrace.
>> >
>> > - the "--wide" configure flag affects ABI, so should be included in the
>> > native-comp ABI hash identifier in .eln filenames.
>>
>> While this doesn't stop anyone else from doing it, I have just removed
>> support for 32bit builds from the windows packaging process:
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-01/msg00661.html
>
> Because it was unreasonable to expect you to keep supporting it when
> MSYS2 folks dropped it. And since MinGW64 dropped support of old
> Windows versions, which are the main audience for the 32-bit build,
> such a MinGW64 build is no longer useful anyway.
Agreed: when I wrote the above, I was unaware that the MSYS2 developers
had dropped 32bit support.
> But that doesn't mean we want to drop support for 32-bit build on
> MS-Windows. As long as mingw.org's MinGW supports Windows 9X, we
> should not deliberately break such builds.
Does anyone test regularly on Win9x ? Inadvertant breakage seems likely
otherwise.
AndyM
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, (continued)
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Andrea Corallo, 2021/02/14
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/14
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Andreas Schwab, 2021/02/13
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Andy Moreton, 2021/02/13
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Phillip Lord, 2021/02/16
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/17
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk,
Andy Moreton <=
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/02/17
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Andy Moreton, 2021/02/17
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Óscar Fuentes, 2021/02/17
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/17
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/12
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/13
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Stefan Monnier, 2021/02/13
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/13
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Andrea Corallo, 2021/02/12
- Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/02/13