From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "nmake info" Windows patch (was: Your Emacs changes) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:10:23 +0530 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030829114023.2C4A478C01@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> References: <2427-Tue19Aug2003095146+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F41D8CC.5000005@runestig.com> <7458-Tue19Aug2003194620+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F4EFFDC.7000101@runestig.com> <3405-Fri29Aug2003132020+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062161627 7818 80.91.224.253 (29 Aug 2003 12:53:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 29 14:53:45 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19sil7-0008E3-00 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:53:45 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19sisT-0003uS-00 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:01:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19sihp-0004d1-91 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:50:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19shfI-000897-4j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19sheG-0007rO-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:42:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19shcz-0007Xz-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:41:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.111.4.25] (helo=mail.messagingengine.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19shcG-00045n-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4E514EA2A; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:40:24 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from 10.202.2.133 ([10.202.2.133] helo=smtp.us2.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: by smtp.us2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 2C4A478C01; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:40:23 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" , "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" X-Epoch: 1062157224 X-Sasl-enc: UwKTd4Jq3q0R6TgjWARxgg In-Reply-To: <3405-Fri29Aug2003132020+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16187 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16187 On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:20:21 +0200, "Eli Zaretskii" said: > > >> On a side note, NTFS does support hard links (AFAIK there's no native > > >> tool for it though, but Cygwin's "ln" works). > > > > > > I knew that, but since native Windows programs don't support links, > > > their presence in NTFS is currently useless unless one works in a > > > Cygwin environment. > > > > As long as you have a "ln" tool, which doesn't need to come from Cygwin, > > they are still quite useful. > > What other packages besides Cygwin offer a port of `ln'? I have the following 'ln'. It is a pretty good port but adds '.lnk' extension as I had mentioned in my earlier mail reporting fix in emacs/lispref/Makefile.in. GNUwin32 packages: [dky]ln --version ln (fileutils) 4.1 Written by Mike Parker and David MacKenzie. Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. >>From the Readme file: *lnexe-1.0* ----------- - what is it? Lnexe: make a link to a win32 executable - homepage - http://www.fptex.org - system - Windows95/98/2000/NT with msvcrt.dll - if msvcrt.dll is not in your Windows/System folder, get it from http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/win95/dll or by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher - preliminaries - get the source package - lnexe-1.0-src.zip - configure - works without changes - make - works without changes with Mingw32 (http://www.mingw.org) - make install - works without changes - notes - see also lnexe-1.0.htm - package availability - on: ftp.franken.de - in: /pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/mingw/porters/Zeelenberg_Kees/lnexe - as: lnexe-1.0-bin.zip - documentation - lnexe-1.0-doc.zip - binaries contributed by - Kees Zeelenberg (c.zeelenberg@hccnet.nl) -- Dhruva Krishnamurthy Web: http://schemer.fateback.com/