From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next pretest Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:06:18 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC6749A.4050706@cornell.edu> References: <87mxx7s743.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4BC64473.9040106@cornell.edu> <87r5mhwstt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> 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: dough.gmane.org 1271297202 26898 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2010 02:06:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 15 04:06:40 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 1O2ETV-0005sX-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:06:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46628 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2ETV-0002MZ-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O2ETP-0002Lm-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:06:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40414 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2ETM-0002Ko-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:06:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2ETJ-0002Zq-5m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:06:27 -0400 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141]:42583 helo=authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2ETJ-0002Zi-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cpe-67-241-20-9.twcny.res.rr.com [67.241.20.9]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id o3F26Moe026263; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:06:22 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 In-Reply-To: <87r5mhwstt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100414-1, 04/14/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:123677 Archived-At: On 4/14/2010 6:51 PM, Chong Yidong wrote: > Ken Brown writes: > >> On 4/13/2010 11:30 AM, Chong Yidong wrote: >>> I plan to make the 23.1.96 pretest next Monday, April 19. >> >> There's still a pending Cygwin patch that I proposed a while ago: >> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-01/msg01128.html >> >> Could you apply that? > > In the future, please send patches to the bug tracker, so that they do > not get lost. Thanks. OK, I'll do that from now on. > In the previous email, you said > >> Even though Dave Korn's advice about libraries turned out to be >> irrelevant for this issue, I still think it would be wise to follow >> it. The attached patch accomplishes this. > > Could you explain what you mean by "wise"? Does the patch fix an actual > bug (e.g. inability to compile), or is it just for cleanliness? If the > latter, the patch should go in the trunk. I'm not aware of an actual bug. But Dave Korn is one of the gcc developers as well as one of the Cygwin developers, and he said it could cause trouble. Nevertheless, it's fine with me if you apply it to the trunk. Thanks. Ken