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: Configuring Emacs on Windows with autoconf Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:38:50 +0200 Message-ID: <83boeot8hh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d2z4tbg3.fsf@gnu.org> <50AFCC34.60909@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353699542 32305 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2012 19:39:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:39:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 23 20:39:13 2012 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 1Tbz5b-0003UX-9l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:39:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tbz5Q-0003IC-FL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:38:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36692) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tbz5O-0003I7-Ne for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:38:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tbz5N-0001X0-Ob for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:38:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:46451) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tbz5N-0001Wu-Gf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:38:49 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MDY00500GZTJR00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:38:47 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MDY005VHH8NBK60@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:38:47 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <50AFCC34.60909@cs.ucla.edu> 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:155043 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:19:16 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 11/23/2012 10:34 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > I already considered the possibility of adding to gnulib > > Another possibility is to use the Gnulib style, but in > Emacs-only modules. That is, instead of creating a Gnulib > module FOO that implements the replacement function foo, > add to Emacs the files lib/foo.c and m4/foo.m4 (and whatever) > that act like Gnulib, but in a way that's less general and is > Emacs-specific and solves the problem just for Emacs. Thanks, that's an idea. But how would configure know to use those lib/foo.c files for one particular build configuration? > You can see a fairly elaborate example of this in GNU > coreutils (see the directory gl). I don't know that Emacs > would have to be that fancy, but the coreutils code can be a > source of ideas. Thanks for the pointer, I will study that.