* configure.ac: Update comment.

[bpt/emacs.git] / etc / MACHINES

diff --git a/etc/MACHINES b/etc/MACHINES
index 695bc09..d60510e 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/MACHINES
+++ b/etc/MACHINES
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Emacs machines list
 
 Emacs machines list
 

-Copyright (C) 1989-1990, 1992-1993, 1998, 2001-2012
-  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1989-1990, 1992-1993, 1998, 2001-2014 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc.

 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 This is a list of the status of GNU Emacs on various machines and systems.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 This is a list of the status of GNU Emacs on various machines and systems.


@@ -10,19 +10,12 @@ Information about older releases, and platforms that are no longer
 supported, has been removed.  Consult older versions of this file if
 you are interested in this information.
 
 supported, has been removed.  Consult older versions of this file if
 you are interested in this information.
 

-The `configure' script uses the configuration name to decide which
-machine and operating system description files `src/config.h' should
-include.  The machine description files are all in `src/m', and have
-names similar to, but not identical to, the machine names used in
-configuration names.  The operating system files are all in `src/s',
-and are named similarly.  See the `configure' script if you need to
-know which configuration names use which machine and operating system
-description files.
+The `configure' script uses the configuration name, and the results of
+testing the system, to decide which options to use in src/config.h and
+elsewhere (eg Makefiles).

 
 If you add support for a new configuration, add a section to this
 
 If you add support for a new configuration, add a section to this

-file, and then edit the `configure' script to tell it which
-configuration name(s) should select your new machine description and
-system description files.
+file, and edit the `configure.ac' source as needed.

 
 Some obsolete platforms are unsupported beginning with Emacs 23.1.  See
 the list at the end of this file.
 
 Some obsolete platforms are unsupported beginning with Emacs 23.1.  See
 the list at the end of this file.


@@ -107,6 +100,13 @@ the list at the end of this file.
     ./configure CC='/usr/sfw/bin/gcc -m64'  # GCC
     ./configure CC='cc -m64'                # Solaris Studio
 
     ./configure CC='/usr/sfw/bin/gcc -m64'  # GCC
     ./configure CC='cc -m64'                # Solaris Studio
 

+** Irix 6.5
+
+  It *may* be possible to build Emacs on Irix 6.5 with an old version
+  (3.1) of gcc.  Newer versions of gcc may not work.  None of the
+  current Emacs developers use Irix, though.  If you want to help
+  make Emacs on Irix work, see <http://debbugs.gnu.org/9684>.
+

 \f
 * Obsolete platforms
 
 \f
 * Obsolete platforms