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: make dist target for Windows Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:12:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4BB5D121.6010302@gmx.de> References: "83eij0zydg.fsf@gnu.org" <4BB328BF.1020706@gmx.de> <834ojwzqmh.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270206812 9790 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2010 11:13:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:13:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 02 13:13:26 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxeoX-0000q0-M7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:13:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54337 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NxeoW-0000Eb-PA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:13:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nxeny-0008Gh-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45188 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nxenu-0008GZ-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nxent-0003vD-Qa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:46037) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nxent-0003v6-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:12:45 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Apr 2010 11:12:43 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO [10.62.13.43]) [82.113.106.188] by mail.gmx.net (mp038) with SMTP; 02 Apr 2010 13:12:43 +0200 X-Authenticated: #18588216 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18r4nFGRp8rVg1Fvdho1uOsuPV/WjUuJJNVTZVkV1 BmwZFWmX0JK4fM User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <834ojwzqmh.fsf@gnu.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.69999999999999996 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:123063 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:49:35 +0200 >> From: grischka >> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> > This is not a good idea. configure.bat needs to be able to run on >> > older Windows 9X systems, where ... >> >> Note that neither does configure.bat work correctly on Windows 9X nor >> does the native shell based part of the makefiles work there nor would >> emacs run on such system at all. > > Please report any specific problems you find. Thanks. > I don't support tendencies that replace concepts by adaptive hacking.