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: Re: Anyone building Emacs trunk with MinGW w64 (32 bits) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:32:14 +0200 Message-ID: <83boa6yve9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zjxumbjf.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83vc8f1t0x.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqsvcso0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83fvzj1atq.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjxqzn2y.fsf@gnu.org> <87obe6ben5.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r4j2z7nw.fsf@gnu.org> <87fvzibarp.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83li9az43l.fsf@gnu.org> <87boa6b0fc.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364315536 11148 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2013 16:32:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:32:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 26 17:32:42 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 1UKWnc-0006C4-1M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:32:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWnE-0005mY-5j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:32:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50314) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWn9-0005m0-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWn7-0002rt-MT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:32:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:63239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWn7-0002qW-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:32:05 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKA00D000C7ES00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:32:02 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKA00D430LD8850@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:32:01 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87boa6b0fc.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:158226 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:17:27 +0100 >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > >> Ugh! I strive to keep my machines Cygwin and MSYS-free (being MS= YSGit > >> the only allowed trespasser, for obvious reasons.) > > > > If you have MSYSGit installed, then resisting MSYS is kinda point= less, > > don't you think? Because you already have most of MSYS, and then > > some. >=20 > AFAIK, MSYSGit lacks key components for running configure scripts. The only one that's missing is make.exe. > The POSIX build will require Windows-specific tweaks from time to t= ime, > which require knowledge about the POSIX build *and* about Windows. > That's not much better than now. I think it _is_ much better, because (a) the changes will be more rare, and (b) the other maintainers will be able to help. But eventually, time will tell who is right (assuming this project succeeds in making it to the repository).