From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Subject: Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin (GCC summary)
Date: 05 Nov 2006 12:52:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcxemahr.fsf@w2kpicasso.cante.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4546724A.5060009@gnu.org
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
> Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> > Richard> Let's document that people should not use GCC 3.4 on
> > Richard> Cygwin. Where is the best place to document this?
> >
> > I vote for nt/INSTALL
> >
>
> That is the wrong place for instructions for the Cygwin build. The
> Cygwin build does not use the windows specific files in the nt
> subdirectory, and people who know Cygwin would not expect it to, since
> Cygwin is not Windows, it is a POSIX emulation environment.
>
> etc/PROBLEMS seems more appropriate.
Woudl it be possible to use OS specific file:
etc/NOTES.Cygwin
Jari
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-05 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-30 1:22 Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin (GCC summary) Maks Romih
2006-10-30 19:16 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-30 20:31 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-10-30 21:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-30 21:26 ` Eric Hanchrow
2006-10-30 21:44 ` Jason Rumney
2006-11-05 10:52 ` Jari Aalto [this message]
2006-11-05 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-30 21:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-04 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-21 1:28 ` 22.1 Cygwin emacs timeframe query Angelo Graziosi
2006-11-21 1:46 ` Angelo Graziosi
2006-11-21 9:35 ` Angelo Graziosi
2006-11-22 14:49 ` Failures in build Emacs-CVS on Cygwin Angelo Graziosi
2006-11-22 22:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-23 0:07 ` Angelo Graziosi
2006-11-23 4:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-23 14:04 ` Angelo Graziosi
2006-11-23 23:55 ` Angelo Graziosi
2006-11-24 21:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-24 23:32 ` Angelo Graziosi
2006-11-25 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-11-25 9:52 ` Angelo Graziosi
2006-11-25 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-28 12:16 Building Emacs-cvs " Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-29 11:13 ` Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin (GCC summary) Angelo Graziosi
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