bug#1151: #1151 - Building Emacs on Mac OS 10.3.9 - Emacs bug report logs

[Adrian Robert]

On Dec 23, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Alex Schröder wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Adrian Robert
> <adrian.b.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am interested in having Emacs continue to work under Panther but  
> > don't
> > have access to a test environment myself.  Could you try  
> > commenting out the
> > part of the 'if' statement involving  
> > "typeUTF16ExternalRepresentation" and
> > see where that gets you?
> >
> > If you get it working and send me a list of all places that you  
> > needed to
> > change, I can put in #ifdefs etc. so it will work out of the box.
>
> Hi Adrian
>
> Indeed, that does work!

Great to hear, I will apply a version of this patch using appropriate  
#ifdefs soon after the holidays, or feel free to commit one yourself  
if you have access.

thanks,
Adrian



> This is the only change I made:
>
> cvs diff: Diffing src
> Index: src/nsfns.m
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/src/nsfns.m,v
> retrieving revision 1.29
> diff -c -r1.29 nsfns.m
> *** src/nsfns.m 7 Dec 2008 05:00:56 -0000       1.29
> --- src/nsfns.m 23 Dec 2008 01:27:36 -0000
> ***************
> *** 2054,2061 ****
>           *result = Qt;
>           // script returned an AppleScript result
>           if ((typeUnicodeText == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
> !             (typeUTF16ExternalRepresentation
> !              == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
>               (typeUTF8Text == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
>               (typeCString == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]))
>             {
> --- 2054,2061 ----
>           *result = Qt;
>           // script returned an AppleScript result
>           if ((typeUnicodeText == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
> ! //          (typeUTF16ExternalRepresentation
> ! //           == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
>               (typeUTF8Text == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
>               (typeCString == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]))
>             {