[cfarm-users] Installing emacs on GCC119/AIX

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 11 October 2017 at 15:06, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 11 October 2017 at 15:01, CM Graff via cfarm-users
> <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
>> I believe the problem is that very few of us actually want or need
>> AIX. It's nice of IBM to donate machines, but we need them running
>> linux, netbsd or freebsd. I don't advertise my work here, and nor
>> would I expect it to be pre-installed if I donated a machine. Why
>> should IBM be any different. Furthermore, the product AIX is just not,
>> and never has been important to the free software community, leading
>> to time wastage and novelty test runs.

Oh, and in response to just this part:
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/criteria.html

powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0 is a secondary platform for GCC, so not just
novelty test runs.