From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Broken lisp/Makefile.w32-in Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:53:47 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200209291953.g8TJrlb09657@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <20020920101908.3689.LEKTU@terra.es> <6480-Sat21Sep2002002308+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20020929022529.CF64.LEKTU@terra.es> <9003-Sun29Sep2002193808+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033329305 20483 127.0.0.1 (29 Sep 2002 19:55:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:55:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lektu@terra.es, 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 17vk9f-0005KF-00 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:55:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17vkt0-0007dX-00 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:41:55 +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 17vk9u-0000oK-00; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:55:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17vk8W-0000jb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:53:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17vk8U-0000jO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17vk8U-0000jK-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:53:50 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8TJrlb09657; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:53:47 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" 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:8234 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8234 > > Another problem: several targets (bootstrap-clean, compile-files, etc.) do > > nested fors, and COMMAND.COM chokes on them. > > If you cannot work around this, perhaps we should require Bash on > Windows 9X? > > > And finally a question: why is bootstrapping contingent on having a diff > > program (and maybe also grep, I'm not sure)? > > What parts of the bootstrap need those programs? And I don't see anything wrong with requiring such things. After all, we also require TeXinfo-4.2, based on the idea that people working from the CVS can be expected to have more tools available (and more uptodate ones) than people using distribution tarballs. Stefan