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Sender: Martin Hellebrandt <martinh@rupert.stochastik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: linux/alpha support?
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On 19 Aug, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>>>>> Jin Choi writes:
> 
> Jin> Are there any plans to support Linux/Alpha in the near future?
> 
> Linux is supported and GNU libc 2 is also supported (the libc is
> standard libc on Linux/Alpha). I don't know of any 64bit problems -
> but there might be some. 
> 
> Tell us why do you think it's not supported? What exactly is not
> working?
> 

As far as I know, the problem is that unexec is configured for coff
binaries instead of elf64. I once tried to merge in the changes form
gnu-emacs 19.34, where they use a new unexec (unexec1.c if memory
serves me right) that supports elf32 and elf64, but I didn't succeed.
The resulting xemacs just produced some lisp-errors and dumped core. 

The version of xemacs-20.2 in ftp.redhat.com/pub/alphabits doesn't work
for me and Richard Henderson wrote about binutils probs in the
announcement.

  Martin
  
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