X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/bpt/emacs.git/blobdiff_plain/6e9ddbb313cf7db66550f93a74cbba12e39e93c0..7a7f5ccec54fad5c1e3df1dde9158d8f2e6ee1a7:/etc/MACHINES

diff --git a/etc/MACHINES b/etc/MACHINES
index 695bc092e9..d60510eab9 100644
--- a/etc/MACHINES
+++ b/etc/MACHINES
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 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.
@@ -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.
 
-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
-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.
@@ -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
 
+** 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>.
+
 
 * Obsolete platforms