From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "nmake info" Windows patch Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:35:40 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F4F3A8C.6090202@runestig.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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062161679 8013 80.91.224.253 (29 Aug 2003 12:54:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:54:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 29 14:54:37 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 19silx-0008HW-00 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:54:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19sitJ-0003uZ-00 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:02:13 +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 19siix-0004n4-FN for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:51:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19shit-00015t-Kz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19shiA-0000lH-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19shcR-0007Nw-G6; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.67.199.133] (helo=smtp4.hy.skanova.net) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19shXc-0003FU-PO; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:35:44 -0400 Original-Received: from runestig.com (h20n2fls34o823.telia.com [217.208.10.20]) by smtp4.hy.skanova.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7TBZU7Z023994; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:35:30 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030809 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii 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:16188 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16188 On 2003-08-29 13:20, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:25:16 +0200 >> From: "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" >> >> All this Windows-incompatible stuff in the new makefiles I created, is >> related to building DVI files, not INFO files. So, how should I do this: >> rip out all non-INFO related stuff, or also make DVI building work (if I ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^-- !!! >> can find a Windows port of texi2dvi...)? > > Are you saying that you don't really care about the parts that produce > Info files, only about the DVI stuff? I'd say that Windows users > should be able to produce the on-line Info manuals as well, but if you > cannot work on that, I guess they won't be able to do that. No, I'm saying the opposite. I started out, offering a patch that adds "info" as a useable make target to the Windows port, for the first time pretty precise a year ago. I recently posted it again when my copyright assignment paper to FSF was cleared. Then comments were made on stuff in the new makefiles I introduced, that didn't work on the Windows platform. All those comments were about targets in the makefiles, that wasn't used by the "info" targets, but were left in there by me anyway (I used the unix makefile.in's as templates). So I'm now wondering, what you guys want me to do about it, so this patch can go into the sources. All I want is a working "info" make target. >> > 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'? No idea, I just don't agree on that the NTFS support for hard link is "useless". Cheers, - Peter -- Peter 'Luna' Runestig (fd. Altberg), Sweden PGP Key ID: 0xD07BBE13 Fingerprint: 7B5C 1F48 2997 C061 DE4B 42EA CB99 A35C D07B BE13 AOL Instant Messenger Screen name: PRunestig Yahoo! Messenger profile name: altberg