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Describe support for Intel-based Macintosh
| author | Steven Tamm <steventamm@mac.com> |
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| date | Thu, 09 Jun 2005 03:59:20 +0000 |
| parents | ba6caa525be2 |
| children | 3723093a21fd 173dee4e2611 |
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--- a/mac/INSTALL Thu Jun 09 03:43:37 2005 +0000 +++ b/mac/INSTALL Thu Jun 09 03:59:20 2005 +0000 @@ -230,7 +230,11 @@ is a concern, as it should be in normal binary distributions, please use /usr/local as the prefix for installation. -Enjoy! +Emacs supports both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintoshes. However, +due to the unexec process that Emacs uses to dump core, it is not +possible at this time to generate a universal binary that supports both +architectures. In addition, Rosetta doesn't appear to work correctly +with PowerPC builds of Emacs; you will have to recompile for Intel. +Therefore, builds of Emacs are architecture specific. -Andrew. -<akochoi@mac.com> +Enjoy!