FWIW your port builds and works fine for me on i386 (no_x11 FLAVOR at least). If you let me know once you have the port naming and gtk/athena decisions sorted out I'll give it a spin on sparc and sparc64 too. emacs 22 is pretty cool, it would be nice to have it.
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:52:21AM +0200, Andreas V?gele wrote: > Brad Walker writes: > > > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 21:42 +0200, Eric Faurot wrote: > >> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:35:57 -0700 > >> "Matthew Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > Is anyone working on an Emacs 22 port? I thought I'd check before > >> > making a redundant effort. > >> > >> This is a work-in-progress port of emacs 22.2 based on a post > >> by Fulvio Ciriaco. Contributions are most welcome. > > > > I've attached a patch for Emacs 22 diffed against Eric's tarball[...]. > > This patch incorporates Matthew Dempsky's gtk FLAVOR patch and plist > > fixes[...] as well as an athena flavor. I also attempted to resolve > > the problems Eric mentioned. [...] > > Here's yet another proposal. > > * The port attached to the end of this message is named "emacs" instead > of "emacs22". It conflicts with "emacs21". I think that there's no > need to support different Emacs versions in the ports tree. Naming > the port "emacs" eases package updates to newer Emacs versions. > > * The port isn't split into -main and -el. I don't see the point. > Users who are low on disk space can use mg oder jmacs, i.e. joe. > > * By default Emacs is built against GTK+ since GTK+ will be the default > toolkit in Emacs 23. There are two flavors: > > * no_x11: Don't build against any widget set. Don't build against > image libraries like jpeg and png which arent't of much use on a > text console. BTW, does anybody actually use the no_x11 flavor? > > * athena: Build against the Athena widget set instead of GTK+. This > flavor will provide minimal GUI support. For example, when Emacs 23 > is released the default flavor will support librsvg, dbus and all > the other bells and whistles that the upstream developers are > currently adding to Emacs. The athena flavor, on the other hand, > will be kept small. > > What do you think? > > Tested on i386 only. The GCCARCH variable at the end of the makefile > needs to be checked on other platforms. >
