From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some error info from configure.bat please Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:14:31 +0200 Message-ID: <854qbcg07c.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <42C65F1B.1030706@student.lu.se> <42C6894C.5080702@student.lu.se> <42C6BA4E.6050700@student.lu.se> <42C70919.2070705@student.lu.se> <42C73742.3020605@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120354051 9244 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2005 01:27:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 01:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 03:27:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DotGC-0004vQ-Uo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:27:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DotHL-0001eH-5z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:28:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DotGE-0001ZP-Ue for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DotFx-0001RF-Lg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DotFx-0001O7-7e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:26:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dot9W-0003uV-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dot28-0000X1-Am; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:12:32 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 5C2021C3DB68; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 03:14:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <42C73742.3020605@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 03 Jul 2005 02:54:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40168 Lennart Borgman writes: > Juanma Barranquero wrote: > >>The problem is, I don't think that checking tools is a good strategy, >>on the long term. Different versions sometimes work or cease to work. >>I was able to build the Emacs info files with Cygwin for a while, and >>after some update or other the thing failed. Me, I've assembled a .ZIP >>with the tools needed (except MinGW, which I install separately), and >>I unzip it wherever I want to compile Emacs. They are completely >>separated of other installations of Unix tools that I may have on my >>computer, and for sure I don't intend to change anything inside it >>unless a future Emacs requires an upgrade (as Jason said, that >>sometimes happens with make-info). >> >> > Maybe different strategies are needed for different times. I have > noticed the careful notes in INSTALL about certain parts of the > tools. Perhaps that could be extended a bit. I see three different > current tool packages on w32: GnuWin32, CygWin and MSYS+MinGW. >>From the vole itself: SFU . -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum