From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:15:38 -0400 Message-ID: <0ehe9ezol.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> <516E17FE.8050900@cs.ucla.edu> <83ppxt2iuc.fsf@gnu.org> <516EEE68.90505@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366226148 22191 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2013 19:15:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 17 21:15:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1USXpb-0002Cx-Qz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:15:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USXpb-00072i-DL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:15:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USXpY-00072d-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USXpU-0004JE-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:15:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33127) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USXpU-0004JA-4s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:15:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USXpS-0001vy-RI; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:15:38 -0400 X-Spook: SRI Al-Qaeda INS codes Bellcore Iran M-14 Delta Force X-Ran: ^DKofMz+X(J~>^\E?VGp".lyK#[5{`ltpvqF&ol9l.=B7r*143oy.hU3=jct1!P5:j"!P* X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <516EEE68.90505@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:48:08 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158987 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > My way (of course :-). The main idea is to move this out of > configure.ac, because the full power and high cost of Autoconf > isn't needed here. This has never been a consideration in my mind when converting things from old-school Emacs build-style to autoconf. There's probably tons of stuff that falls into the above category. I have never considered the speed of configure an issue. Why is MS Windows any different to eg AIX, unixware, or any of the other platforms that almost no-one uses but configure.ac handles? I don't know how many people will end up using configure on MS Windows, but if it is > 1 it probably still beats AIX...