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: Emacs vista build failures Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:19:34 +0200 Message-ID: <85d4l57ju1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <487C5FA3.4070603@emf.net> <87zloggji9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878wvxxkn6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87ej5oz4pb.fsf@saeurebad.de> <87vdyzxype.fsf@saeurebad.de> <871w1njq32.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87iquzxgtk.fsf@saeurebad.de> <4884CFEF.8040404@gmail.com> <87ej5nxew2.fsf@saeurebad.de> <4884DA4F.20203@gmail.com> <8763qzxcfd.fsf@saeurebad.de> <4884E551.3050304@gmail.com> <86fxq2j1af.fsf@timbral.net> <4885977B.6090700@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216758014 32131 80.91.229.12 (22 Jul 2008 20:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:20:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: thorne@timbral.net, Eli Zaretskii , jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ams@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 22 22:21:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KLOLw-0002l6-61 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:20:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLOL2-0004C0-Jn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLOKx-00048j-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLOKv-00043s-0L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:19:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50298 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLOKu-00043e-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:19:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.51]:44279) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLOKf-0001Er-BK; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:19:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.21]) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57EF82090C3; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:19:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.46]) by mail-in-09-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352DE28EDD2; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:19:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-051-249.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.51.249]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F1635E728; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:19:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 00DF91C1346B; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:19:34 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:11:56 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/7782/Tue Jul 22 20:02:32 2008 on mail-in-06.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:101243 Archived-At: "Alfred M. Szmidt" writes: > > I do think this idea presents a chicken and egg problem though - the > > shell is needed by configure, but will not be available until it has > > been built by a bootstrap. > > The shell could be built before running the configure. > > And how would that work for every other platform? By using a subset of C and the respective libraries that is supported everywhere. The Lua interpreter is written in that way IIRC. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum