From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Latest MinGW runtime and Windows 9X Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:55:07 +0200 Message-ID: <831u1q2z38.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386316538 18976 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2013 07:55:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 07:55:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 06 08:55:44 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VoqGF-0001yv-P2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 08:55:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57702 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VoqGE-0000nE-W6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 02:55:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VoqG6-0000n3-Md for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 02:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VoqG0-0002cx-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 02:55:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:33215) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VoqG0-0002cp-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 02:55:28 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MXD00G00KIDIG00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:55:18 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MXD00GVFKO5CM30@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:55:18 +0200 (IST) X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:166154 Archived-At: People who produce Windows binaries for Emacs should read the discussion that started here (and is still on-going): https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=E8DFAC56-DC81-45DB-B402-0EF5826CBB21%40eznet.net&forum_name=mingw-users In particular, this message by one of the core MinGW developers: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=52A0FD08.8090107%40users.sourceforge.net&forum_name=mingw-users It sounds like at least the official Emacs releases uploaded to ftp.gnu.org should be built using MinGW runtime 3.x, not the recent 4.x, until and unless these issues are resolved in a way that support for Windows 9X is not dropped by MinGW, or until Emacs development decides to end such support.