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GNU Emacs and Digital Unix (OSF1) 5.1

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Tommi Raulahti <traulahti <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: GNU Emacs and Digital Unix (OSF1) 5.1
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:20:20 +0300

Hi there!

New Emacs is soon to be released and decided to test latest prebuild
release in environment I'm using (with many others)... But...
Configure said, my system is no longer supported... oh well. Now, I
have a request. Can you provide me some patch for configure to enable
compiling Emacs 23 to OSF/1 5.1? Of course, we can stick with Emacs
22.3 (which compiled to OSF/1 easily).

In that case, compilation may require something OSF/1 doesn't have,
I'll have to forget this and keep using older version until our last
DEC is long gone...

Thank you very much for your co-operation!

Regards,
Tommi Raulahti

HP Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650) user...

Message #10 received at 3944 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Tommi Raulahti <traulahti <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 3944 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs and Digital Unix (OSF1) 5.1
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:54:24 -0400

> New Emacs is soon to be released and decided to test latest prebuild
> release in environment I'm using (with many others)... But...
> Configure said, my system is no longer supported... oh well. Now, I
> have a request. Can you provide me some patch for configure to enable
> compiling Emacs 23 to OSF/1 5.1? Of course, we can stick with Emacs
> 22.3 (which compiled to OSF/1 easily).
>
> In that case, compilation may require something OSF/1 doesn't have,
> I'll have to forget this and keep using older version until our last
> DEC is long gone...

Sorry about that, we weren't aware that there were any remaining OSF/1
users.

Try the following: first patch configure with the attached patch.  Then,
take the file src/s/osf1.h from Emacs 22.3 (I can send it to you by
attachment if you can't find it) and put it in the src/s/ directory.

Then try to build.  If that works, we can put OSF/1 support back in for
Emacs 23.2.


*** emacs/configure.~1.322.2.2.~	2009-07-08 19:43:34.000000000 -0400
--- emacs/configure	2009-07-28 11:49:25.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 2447,2452 ****
--- 2447,2469 ----
      esac
    ;;
  
+   ## Alpha (DEC) machines.
+   alpha*-dec-osf* )
+     machine=alpha opsys=osf1
+     # This is needed to find X11R6.1 libraries for certain tests.
+     NON_GCC_LINK_TEST_OPTIONS=-Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib
+     GCC_LINK_TEST_OPTIONS=-Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib
+     # NON_GNU_CPP is necessary on 5.0 to avoid mangling src/Makefile
+     # due to non-traditional preprocessing with the current compiler
+     # defaults.  OSF 4 can also have that compiler version, and there
+     # seems always to have been a usable /usr/bin/cpp.
+     NON_GNU_CPP=/usr/bin/cpp
+     case "${canonical}" in
+     alpha*-dec-osf[5-9]*)
+       opsys=osf5-0 ;;
+     esac
+   ;;
+ 
    ## OpenBSD ports
    *-*-openbsd* )
      opsys=openbsd

Diff finished.  Tue Jul 28 11:51:21 2009

Message #19 received at 3944-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 3944-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3944: GNU Emacs and Digital Unix (OSF1) 5.1
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:19:30 -0400

tags 3944 wontfix
stop

Since no OSF users ever replied to say what changes are needed to
support it, we cannot do anything about this.

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