From a8ed8c3e5ebd57e4156de08a77f47ac762e046aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:26:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add an entry for MacPPC, and describe problems with Yellow Dog. --- etc/MACHINES | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/MACHINES b/etc/MACHINES index e01a1b7fee7..938e9a98bb0 100644 --- a/etc/MACHINES +++ b/etc/MACHINES @@ -102,6 +102,29 @@ Amdahl UTS (580-amdahl-sysv) even worth trying to use it. Success was obtained with the uts native C compiler on uts version 5.2.5. +Apple PowerPC Macintosh running GNU/Linux + + There are special considerations for a variety of this system which + is known as the ``Yellow Dog Linux'': Emacs may crash during + dumping. To solve this, edit the header file src/m/macppc.h in the + Emacs distribution, and remove the "#if 0" and "#endif" directives + which surround the following block near the end of the file: + + #if 0 /* This breaks things on PPC GNU/Linux ecept for Yellowdog, + even with identical GCC, as, ld. Let's take it out until we + know what's really going on here. */ + /* GCC 2.95 and newer on GNU/Linux PPC changed the load address to + 0x10000000. */ + #if defined __linux__ + #if __GNUC__ > 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 95) + #define DATA_SEG_BITS 0x10000000 + #endif + #endif + #endif /* 0 */ + + After that, reconfigure and rebuild Emacs. It should now build + successfully. + Apollo running X Windows (m68k-apollo-bsd) Apollo version now supports dumping. It has been tested on SR10.3 and -- 2.39.2