From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christoph Scholtes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:18:44 -0600 Message-ID: <4E978DF4.60302@gmail.com> References: <83pqi01rcl.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcrsbgzb.fsf_-_@wanadoo.es> 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 1318555137 11303 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2011 01:18:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?B?w5NzY2FyIEZ1ZW50ZXM=?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 14 03:18:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1REWQF-0002xS-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:18:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35345 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWQE-0004V0-S7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53099) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWQB-0004Uj-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWQA-00083U-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:18:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:33574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWQA-00083Q-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: by ggdk5 with SMTP id k5so731093ggd.0 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:18:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=VsvQl5S+SNuAR8xjHsLt++6NxoociTLXlqCxjv0b5Vk=; b=oCVxNdrgEY8apHQJgnZOohu5pCck0YRaGGURwlpEKfPCEEFfM8yoCWMkkzoWo+4A4y Uz/FfPc8fv5S+nXxuzDGFk9+39swpxhTMjx2Ph2KptEhekc4LAIbYYagbkwj8nrbkksB BMdbjs52f6Ku8B4c8sABd0PGy1XfwSlBqf76g= Original-Received: by 10.42.197.73 with SMTP id ej9mr12397521icb.2.1318555125945; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (71-212-151-183.hlrn.qwest.net. [71.212.151.183]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fy35sm3935227ibb.4.2011.10.13.18.18.44 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:18:45 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.161.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145177 Archived-At: On 10/13/2011 7:06 PM, Juanma Barranquero wrote: >> Time ago I volunteered to write a CMake [1] build spec for Emacs. It was >> considered unnecessary by the people who does most of the work on the >> current build systems. > > IIRC, it was also unacceptable, because the user would need CMake to > build Emacs, as opposed to just generating makefiles than can be > packed into the tarball. Is that so, or am I misremembering? Couldn't you pack the Makefiles generated with CMake into the tarball when you create it?