From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 14:00:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF77C1065687 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:00:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from alto.onthenet.com.au (alto.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.68.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F248FC1C for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:00:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from dommail.onthenet.com.au (dommail.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.70.57]) by alto.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7707811A56; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:23 +1000 (EST) Received: (from dommail.onthenet.com.au [192.100.104.17]) by dommail.onthenet.com.au (MOS 3.8.6-GA) with HTTP/1.1 id EKA04750 (AUTH peterg@ptree32.com.au); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:59:44 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Grehan To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Horst=20G=FCnther=20Burkhardt=20III?= , FreeBSD PowerPC ML X-Mailer: Mirapoint Webmail Direct 3.8.6-GA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20081010235944.EKA04750@dommail.onthenet.com.au> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:59:44 +1000 (EST) Cc: Subject: Re: Apologies for failing. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:00:30 -0000 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.