Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:59:44 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Horst=20G=FCnther=20Burkhardt=20III?= <horst@sxemacs.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Apologies for failing. Message-ID: <20081010235944.EKA04750@dommail.onthenet.com.au>
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Hi Horst, >> >- Get SXEmacs >> >> I'd love to see that running on PPC :) Last time I looked at >> Emacs, there was quite a bit of build glue to get it going. >> Too complicated for my patience at the time. > >I'm your man then. I work with the SXEmacs project. We already boast >support for building on PPC/Darwin so given how much has been shared >between the two it's not a huge leap to assume it can be made to work on >PPC/FreeBSD relatively easily. :) Excellent. >Also, our build system is standard autotooled - aclocal, autoconf, >configure, make, make install. > >It also has a Gentoo ebuild which I wrote (and which the project lead >thought was impractical to do, but i proved him wrong haha) so >theoretically it could even end up in ports if I figure out how to make >a port. There's always the xemacs port to start from. >FreeBSD should already have AIX binary emulation layers ... There's a difference between should and does :) Even NetBSD doesn't have that. >If not, anywhere else I can get Netscape Communicator in a >PPC binary form that will run on FreeBSD? Not possible at this point. If Linux emulation existed, that would be the path to go down. later, Peter.
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