From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap fails on w32 Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:02:50 +0200 Message-ID: <429CED1A.5030707@student.lu.se> References: <428FB183.3000209@student.lu.se> <85psvjyli5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85acmmlwqc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85r7fykdbo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <01c55f4a$Blat.v2.4$8153d260@zahav.net.il> <85mzqmjpnz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117581275 1709 80.91.229.2 (31 May 2005 23:14:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:14:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 01 01:14:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdFve-00012h-Nh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:13:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdG0p-0004Vp-Im for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 19:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DdFy9-0003e6-PL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 19:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DdFy0-0003Yj-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 19:16:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DdFxy-0003Y0-4J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 19:16:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DdFnv-00047k-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 19:05:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (83.249.206.221) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.059.6) id 42930AA9001BA76B; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 01:03:48 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0522-4, 2005-05-31), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37974 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37974 Juanma Barranquero wrote: > Perhaps it is Vader-style evil, after all. Today I've had the "intense > >pleasure" of spending about three hours trying to understand why was I >able to do a MinGW build on one computer and GNU make ab-so-lu-te-ly >refused to work on another, identically set-up machine... till it >finally dawned on my that I had forgotten the "cvs update -kb" >incantation on nt/ (I don't usually read nt/INSTALL because I'm quite >familiar with its contents). > >Great. Just great. > > > Perhaps it is not evil. Perhaps it helps us think (more). Maybe someone with big knowledge can add a test to makfile.w32-in that will found out whether the file is converted or not and tell those that dare to use it. DV