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Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs
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Dave Love |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:11:06 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
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.]
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