From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: [PATCH] nt/gmake,defs, nt/nmake.defs Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:17:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200801152218.m0FMIjGx041292@member.newsguy.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200511076 8415 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2008 19:17:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:17:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Bill Meier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 20:18:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JFDm9-0005pH-Bc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:18:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFDlk-0003Cw-HX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:17:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFDlf-0003Ci-Mw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:17:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JFDle-0003CT-As for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:17:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFDle-0003CQ-61 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:17:42 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFDld-0002is-NI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:17:41 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-249-38.inter.net.il [84.228.249.38]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id IWK80138 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:15:10 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <200801152218.m0FMIjGx041292@member.newsguy.com> (message from Bill Meier on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:18:45 -0500 (EST)) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17355 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:18:45 -0500 (EST) > From: Bill Meier > > The patch below (created using 'cvs diff') changes the definition of CP and > CP_DIR in the gmake.defs and nmake.defs files in nt/ to use the 'p' option. Thanks. Unfortunately, I cannot accept this patch verbatim: I don't want us to assume that `cp' supports the -p option. (Some old versions don't.) The fact that the user has GNU Make installed does not yet imply that she has GNU cp. If this is important to you, figure out how to test for the support of the -p option in configure.bat, and then use the result of such a test at "make install" time. (If you want to work on this, please note that the Windows build of Emacs still supports Windows 9x, so whatever tests you invent must also work in COMMAND.COM, the default shell on Windows 9x, not only with cmd.exe.) Thanks again for working on this.