Re: Drop OS X 10.4

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

I have added a test to configure.  But I was wondering about crosscompiling.  
We really do not support that, do we?

        Jan D.

14 okt 2014 kl. 07:08 skrev Jan Djärv <address@hidden>:

> Hello.
> 
> 13 okt 2014 kl. 18:48 skrev Glenn Morris <address@hidden>:
> 
>> Jan Djärv wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't think so. After all, if you are building for X or no toolkit,
>>> it is basically just UNIX with an unexec that works on Intel. I don't
>>> think that we should prevent configurations that we in principle
>>> support (X, no-X, unexmacosx.c). A check for PowerPC might be in order
>>> though as we don't support that.
>>> 
>>> I could add that, but I don't have any PowerPC to test it on.
>> 
>> Oh, but all the other points still apply:
>> 
>> OS X 10.4 itself is unsupported for 5+ years.
>> No Emacs developer has it to test on.
>> All the bug reports about it come from one person (who seems to be doing
>> an "explore the compilation parameter space" thing rather than actually
>> wanting to use it).
>> All the bug reports are about PPC;
>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?include=subject%3A10.4;package=emacs
>> (whether this means it is working fine on non-ppc, I have no data for! :) )
>> 
>> So personally I see no value to pretending it is still supported, and
>> think it might as well be explicitly dropped.
>> 
> 
> I have to do some other test, because the test relies on Cocoa dev 
> environment being present.
> Stand by.
> 
>>> A check for PowerPC might be in order though as we don't support that.
>> 
>> Should be easy?
>> 
>> *** configure.ac     2014-10-12 22:56:45 +0000
>> --- configure.ac     2014-10-13 16:47:29 +0000
>> ***************
>> *** 557,563 ****
>>   *-apple-darwin* )
>>     case "${canonical}" in
>>       i[3456]86-* )  ;;
>> !       powerpc-* )    ;;
>>       x86_64-* )     ;;
>>       * )            unported=yes ;;
>>     esac
>> --- 557,563 ----
>>   *-apple-darwin* )
>>     case "${canonical}" in
>>       i[3456]86-* )  ;;
>> !       powerpc-* )    unported=yes ;;
>>       x86_64-* )     ;;
>>       * )            unported=yes ;;
>>     esac
> 
> Thanks, I checked that in.
> 
>       Jan D.
>