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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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Subject: Re: Build Report: XEmacs 19.15b90 on IRIX 5.3
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>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

sb> 3.  I don't have physical access to most of the systems we support, so
sb>     getting reports from each platform is the only way I know
sb>     something hasn't been broken.

We probably should have a set of machines around the internet running
various OS'es that the XEmacs maintainers would be allowed to log in
to and hack occasionally.  Many of the beta testers have machines
hidden behind firewalls, but enough should be available, for example,
at universities, with direct telnetability.  Many of the
platform-specific problems can be solved by just examining the output
of configure.

Do any beta testers volunteer occasional use of their machines?

>> Configured for `mips-sgi-irix5.3'.

sb> Thanks for the report.  I thought the cpp'ed Makefiles didn't work on
sb> this system, or is it just the ANSI-ized 20.0 Makefiles?

That incorrect assignment to NON_GNU_CPP in configure.in only applies
to Irix 6.  And even on Irix 6, setting environemnt variable CPP to
`CC -E' solves that problem.  Steven, you did apply this for the next
beta, right?

Martin

