Subject: bug#9404: closed (Re: etc/MACHINES has obsolete information)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:00:04 +0000

Your bug report

#9404: etc/MACHINES has obsolete information

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: etc/MACHINES has obsolete information
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:56:32 -0700
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Thanks for the bug report.

I took a stab at modernizing MACHINES in bzr 105614,
and I'm marking this done.

http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/revision/105614

Subject: etc/MACHINES has obsolete information
From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:59:53 -0400
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The most of the first few sections in etc/MACHINES have obsolete
information.

** Alpha (DEC) running GNU/Linux (alpha-dec-linux-gnu)
actually talks about using the DEC compiler which was running on OSF/1,
which is not supported anymore.

** HP 9000 series 700 
** IBM RS/6000 (rs6000-ibm-aix*)
** Iris 4D (mips-sgi-irix6.*)
** Sun 4 (sparc), Sun 386
talk about old releases and old compilers that are very likely not in
use anymore.
** Intel 386 (i386-*-freebsd,      i386-*-linux-gnu
Very old info.

Instead of carrying this old info for ancient stuff, just remove it and
have users report problems here.