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bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: bug#27810: macOS runtime feature detection
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 15:04:48 -0400

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  > > 'make emacs' can't run to completion in a cross-environment, but
  > > cross-compilation can work well enough in practice.  Precisely, 'make
  > > temacs' can work with a cross compiler; then you can dump with temacs
  > > on the target platform.

  > You'd need to copy the entire build tree to the target platform for
  > that to work,

Yes, but why is that a problem?

                  so it's not really a cross-build anymore, not in the
  > usual sense.

It is not 100% a cross-build.  But it means you don't need a compiler
for the target machine.

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