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Support for Intel-based Macintosh / Darwin 8.1 x86


From: Steven Tamm
Subject: Support for Intel-based Macintosh / Darwin 8.1 x86
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 21:03:13 -0700

I checked in changes to support Emacs on Intel-based Mac OS X 10.4 and Darwin 8.1. I tested it at the WWDC lab and it worked perfectly.

However, I couldn't get the PowerPC build I have of Emacs to run correctly in Rosetta. I kept getting a Bus error, and didn't have time to do the cross-architecture debugging. I'd recommend not bothering and just recompiling from scratch. It only takes about 2 minutes.

A universal binary is not possible right now because of the unexec process. Since you can only unexec by running the application, you wouldn't be able to unexec on the opposite platform (since Rosetta would munge everything up). I talked to the guy that did Apple's emacs port and he said they created a wrapper application that runs unexec the first time you execute the process. He said it would be available once the rest of darwin x86 is published. I've added a todo item to mac/README to possibly include this wrapper back into the tree.

-Steven




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