From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: grischka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Initialisation of dired-x for install-info guessing Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 10:27:08 +0200 Message-ID: <4A029B5C.6080002@gmx.de> References: "8363gfe2r1.fsf@gnu.org" <4A02009E.4080208@gmx.de> <83ocu5d2uo.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241684856 16672 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2009 08:27:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 07 10:27:26 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M1ywu-0007dX-73 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 10:27:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35427 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M1ywt-0006RW-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 04:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1ywm-0006Qt-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 04:27:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1ywi-0006Nl-Rq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 04:27:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37087 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M1ywi-0006Ng-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 04:27:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:35138) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M1ywh-0002PV-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 04:27:12 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 May 2009 08:27:09 -0000 Original-Received: from p57A08070.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.1.3]) [87.160.128.112] by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 07 May 2009 10:27:09 +0200 X-Authenticated: #18588216 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19d9QxWoExdQU8C0FcGicOYvhFQ8zS3uEiYdoFw7u P4/kaEPwrIOoVd User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) In-Reply-To: <83ocu5d2uo.fsf@gnu.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.64 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:110746 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 23:26:54 +0200 >> From: grischka >> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >>> Emacs still supports older Windows versions where the shell is >>> command.com [...] >> Actually no, for more than one reason. One being that GNU >> make expands it's full path with forward slashes into $(MAKE) >> which would do just nothing at all under command.com. > > I didn't say we support _building_ Emacs on those platforms. But we > do support _running_ Emacs there. If you know of any problems that > would preclude that, please report them. Since it didn't build I really can't tell whether it runs. > (Btw, for the specific problem of Make, its Windows port will never > use command.com as a shell. Sure it does. Hence the problem with slashes, as above. > Either you have a Unixy shell on your > Path or you need to have cmd.exe. So for building on such a system, > the only way it can possibly work is if one has a sh.exe somewhere.)