From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13026: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for signal.h.
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:13:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831uf0n964.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C2A8B9.3030205@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:40:57 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> As an aside, it'd be nicer if lib/Makefile were computed more
> automatically from lib/gnulib.mk on Microsoft platforms, so
> that this sort of thing wouldn't require manual editing.
That requires Windows to use the Posix configure script. Doing that
is a large job that is already under way, albeit slowly. It is a
large job because:
. neither configure.ac nor the various Makefile.in files, in
particular src/Makefile.in, currently support the MS-Windows
build, which needs some special options be used and some special
commands to be run, as seen in the makefile.w32-in files;
. the nt/ subdirectory and the parts of the build there are not
covered at all by configure.ac and Makefile.in files;
. quite a few of the tests done by configure need to be overridden,
because the necessary features are implemented only in Emacs's own
source, not in system headers and libraries; and
. configure.ac is set up to produce executables statically linked
against available optional libraries, whereas the Windows build
loads those libraries dynamically at run time (this is a minor
annoyance easily fixed in configure.ac, but there are a lot of
such annoyances, and more are added as we go).
Volunteers to help in this job are welcome.
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2012-12-08 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-12-08 17:34 ` bug#13026: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for signal.h Paul Eggert
2012-12-08 18:45 ` Gnulib automation on Windows (was: bug#13026: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for signal.h.) Eli Zaretskii
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