From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Broken lisp/Makefile.w32-in Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:24:57 -0300 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020831175417.49CD.LEKTU@terra.es> References: <20020830135553.852A.LEKTU@terra.es> <7263-Fri30Aug2002220645+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030818269 5491 127.0.0.1 (31 Aug 2002 18:24:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 18:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17lCv6-0001QS-00 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:24:28 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17lDST-0003o0-00 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:58:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17lCwW-0004DI-00; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:25:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17lCvL-0004C3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:24:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17lCvJ-0004Bo-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:24:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.4.129.129] (helo=tsmtp1.mail.isp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17lCvI-0004Bk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.153.110.54] ([193.153.110.54]) by tsmtp1.mail.isp (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 tsmtp1 Mar 14 2002 21:29:48) with ESMTP id H1Q0H100.IIZ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:24:37 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <7263-Fri30Aug2002220645+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.05.01 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7218 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7218 > Can you figure out why is that failing? Could it be that $WINS is so > long that the resulting command exceeds the 126-character limit on > COMMAND.COM's command line, for example? I'll try to check it. > IMHO, if it's feasible to support building on those systems, we should > do that. OK. > Windows 98 SE is still a very popular version of Windows (I, > for one, prefer it to both Windows/ME and W2K/XP). Curious. I find both NT 4.0 and W2K to be exceptionally stable (XP is less so IMHO). > I think _most_ Windows users download prebuilt binaries, even on W2K > and Windows/XP. Well, yes, but supporting building on W2K/XP does not pose any problem because CMD.EXE is quite more powerful than COMMAND.COM :) -- Juanma Barranquero