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: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:13:59 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200212021613.gB2GDxs02206@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <7263-Wed27Nov2002204304+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038845801 24936 80.91.224.249 (2 Dec 2002 16:16:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jbuehler@hekimian.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 18ItFN-0006Tm-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:16:37 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18ItOS-0007Fa-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:26:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ItDs-0008J7-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:15:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ItCx-0007Nz-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:14:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ItCt-0007GS-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:14:05 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ItCt-0007Fs-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:14:03 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gB2GDxs02206; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:13:59 -0500 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:9801 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9801 > Also, what about many "#ifdef WINDOWSNT" and "#ifdef DOS_NT" that we > have in the sources--are none of them appropriate for the Cygwin > build? For example, what about setting system_eol_type (on coding.c) > to CODING_CR_LF? Or about the part of editfns.c that gets the user > id from the enviroment variable USERNAME? Or support for drive > letters in file names in fileio.c? Isn't it better not to lose these > and other Windows-specific features? > > I think Someone(tm) should also go through all the *.el files, look > for code that's specific to system-type windows-nt, and see which ones > should also work for system-type cygwin. I agree, but I think this is orthogonal: we can first install his patch and then try and slowly merge the applicable parts of the NT and the DOS code into the cygwin path. Stefan