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: Bootstrap fails on w32 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 01:50:22 +0200 Message-ID: <85mzql5wox.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <428FB183.3000209@student.lu.se> <4290EDA8.7020401@student.lu.se> <01c55f4b$Blat.v2.4$f12be9a0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116892456 20989 80.91.229.2 (23 May 2005 23:54:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 23:54:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 01:54:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaMjt-0004h0-4J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 01:53:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaMnR-0002d8-B0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:57:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaMkq-00005w-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:54:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaMkm-0008Rq-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:54:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaMkl-0008NT-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:54:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DaMgj-0000yj-FO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DaMge-0007Kb-FM; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E37B31CE2C7F; Tue, 24 May 2005 01:50:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 24 May 2005 02:23:00 +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:37533 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37533 Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:06:00 +0200 >> From: Juanma Barranquero >> >> Well, Eli, "I'd suggest" is hardly a crusade, isn't it? > > Sorry, I'm so idiosyncratic to suggestions to drop ``old'' platforms > that I sometimes go way out of line. > >> > Then I'd say get a better port of rm.exe. >> >> I was led to believe MinGW/MSYS tools were good. > > They are good, but that doesn't mean there are no bugs or misfeatures. > I suggest to complain to GnuWin32 maintainers, I find them to be quite > responsive (MSYS tools are actually Cygwin ports). Uh what? They are MinGW as far as I know. They don't need the Cygwin DLL. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum