Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs

[Dave Love]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, HP-UX still ships a bundled K&R cc for free, but almost everybody
> uses that only to install gcc; or they pay HP for an ANSI C compiler.

My info is perhaps a year old, but the only reason I know about it is
reports from people trying to build Emacs that way...

> A few people still run SunOS 4.x for one reason or another, but almost
> nobody develops or builds new software on it.  Nobody wants the latest
> Emacs version to run on it.  I just searched deja.com, and the most
> recent report I found on the subject was Volker Borchert's 1999 Usenet
> article, which said "(NOTE: don't use GNU emacs-20.x on a
> Sparc-1/1+/2, it's waaay too slooooow)";

I've definitely answered a bug report from someone doing it more
recently than that.  I remember because she was an old colleague.  [As
far as I remember, the first Emacs 20 work I did was on an IPX.  The
young people of today...]

That said, I don't disagree about dropping K&R support, at least as
far as the compiler (rather than the library) goes.  Do you assume a
standard-conforming libc without problems?

>> Anyhow, I'll ask the question about K&R again.
>
> Did you get an answer back?

He asked me who had said other GNU packages had dropped K&R without
complaint.  I think I said eggert/meyering, which I assumed would be
convincing, but I didn't hear more.

[Is it worth me sending any more changes to gnulib?  Parts of changes
not related to K&R never went in as far as I can tell.]