GNU bug report logs - #1151
Building Emacs on Mac OS 10.3.9

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Packages: emacs, ns;

Reported by: Alex <kensanata <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:35:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: Alex Schröder <kensanata <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 1151 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1151: #1151 - Building Emacs on Mac OS 10.3.9 - Emacs bug report logs
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:54:20 +0200

On Dec 23, 2008, at 3:31 AM, Alex Schröder wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Adrian Robert
> <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am interested in having Emacs continue to work under Panther but  
>> don't
>> have access to a test environment myself.  Could you try  
>> commenting out the
>> part of the 'if' statement involving  
>> "typeUTF16ExternalRepresentation" and
>> see where that gets you?
>>
>> If you get it working and send me a list of all places that you  
>> needed to
>> change, I can put in #ifdefs etc. so it will work out of the box.
>
> Hi Adrian
>
> Indeed, that does work!

Great to hear, I will apply a version of this patch using appropriate  
#ifdefs soon after the holidays, or feel free to commit one yourself  
if you have access.

thanks,
Adrian



> This is the only change I made:
>
> cvs diff: Diffing src
> Index: src/nsfns.m
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/src/nsfns.m,v
> retrieving revision 1.29
> diff -c -r1.29 nsfns.m
> *** src/nsfns.m	7 Dec 2008 05:00:56 -0000	1.29
> --- src/nsfns.m	23 Dec 2008 01:27:36 -0000
> ***************
> *** 2054,2061 ****
>   	  *result = Qt;
>   	  // script returned an AppleScript result
>   	  if ((typeUnicodeText == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
> ! 	      (typeUTF16ExternalRepresentation
> ! 	       == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
>   	      (typeUTF8Text == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
>   	      (typeCString == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]))
>   	    {
> --- 2054,2061 ----
>   	  *result = Qt;
>   	  // script returned an AppleScript result
>   	  if ((typeUnicodeText == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
> ! // 	      (typeUTF16ExternalRepresentation
> ! // 	       == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
>   	      (typeUTF8Text == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]) ||
>   	      (typeCString == [returnDescriptor descriptorType]))
>   	    {
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