From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: ams@gnu.org
Cc: thorne@timbral.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:24:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488641EA.6080808@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KLO7Z-00037Q-7D@fencepost.gnu.org>
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > I presented (in this thread I believe) some of my
> > arguments about why to care about w32 too in my reply to
> > RMS about a portable mini-bash. I might be wrong, my
> > arguments might be bad, but I tried to give some
> > arguments.
> >
> > I don't know much about it, but isn't that what MinGW is
> > supposed to provide?
>
> I think Lennart's suggestion is about a having a small POSIX shell
> that can be bundled with Emacs (and other programs) to use on
> systems that do not have a POSIX shell by default. MinGW/MSYS is an
> external dependency which means an extra thing to go wrong for
> users.
>
> I do think this idea presents a chicken and egg problem though -
> the shell is needed by configure, but will not be available until
> it has been built by a bootstrap.
>
> Exactly, wouldn't it be just easier to request the user to install
> whatever POSIX shell that is required in INSTALL or similar?
There is a POSIX shell for w32, but I do not think that interact well
with normal w32 command line programs. Is there anyone who knows
something about that?
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2008-07-14 11:05 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-11 19:17 ` David Robinow
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2008-07-11 20:57 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-12 16:35 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-12 19:46 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-07-12 20:17 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-12 10:49 ` Bastien Guerry
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2008-07-13 20:44 ` Claus
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2008-07-14 17:38 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-13 20:46 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-13 21:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-13 21:40 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-07-13 22:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-13 22:53 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-13 23:46 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-14 10:27 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-07-14 11:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-14 17:39 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-14 19:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-15 18:04 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-07-15 20:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
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2008-07-15 18:04 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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