From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Your Emacs changes Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:46:20 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7458-Tue19Aug2003194620+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <2427-Tue19Aug2003095146+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F41D8CC.5000005@runestig.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061457264 32206 80.91.224.253 (21 Aug 2003 09:14:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 21 11:14:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19plWQ-0000u2-00 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:14:22 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19pla5-00017f-00 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:18:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19pht3-0004HV-M0 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 01:21:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19ph0F-0004vr-K9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:24:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19pgSi-0004BB-TB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19pfyD-0004Ts-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:18:41 -0400 Original-Received: from aragorn.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.23]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19p9jj-00053b-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:53:35 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-199-157.inter.net.il [80.230.199.157]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.5-GR) with ESMTP id BFY68482; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:50:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: peter@runestig.com X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <3F41D8CC.5000005@runestig.com> (peter@runestig.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16036 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16036 > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:59:08 +0200 > From: "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" > > > > [There's the fpTeX project which produces native Windows ports of TeX, > > DVIware, and related programs, so the assumption that only Cygwin > > ports of those programs exist is incorrect. fpTeX is included on the > > annual releases of the "TeX Live" CDROM.] > > I didn't know that, so this is only tested with Cygwin versions of the > TeX stuff. I believe that with some caution, we could make it work with native Windows ports as well. The ENVADD stuff can be replaced with Make directirves, and Unixy shell commands can be replaced with more or less equivalent CMD commands. Targets such as `dist' should be simply removed, as they are not needed on Windows. Colon-separated paths are a PITA, as I don't think Cygwin programs support semi-colons there. If indeed they don't, the only way out of this mess I see is to tell people to edit the resultant Makefile by hand, as much as I hate that. > On a side note, NTFS does support hard links (AFAIK there's no native > tool for it though, but Cygwin's "ln" works). I knew that, but since native Windows programs don't support links, their presence in NTFS is currently useless unless one works in a Cygwin environment.