From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:46:10 -0400 Message-ID: <87k5fph5rh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <36366a980807091202rd3b6521jc9fa45d321bc9d37@mail.gmail.com> <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807111217m66d6cf4el777c197c107ce034@mail.gmail.com> <87skug6tq5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4eb0089f0807111345h13eccdds9b2cf43370b94074@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215981957 14841 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2008 20:45:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "David Robinow" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 13 22:46:45 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 1KI8Sy-0000pg-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:46:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KI8S6-0004ES-EF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KI8S0-0004Bh-Rs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KI8Rz-00049t-0L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34394 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KI8Ry-00049m-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:37610 helo=cyd) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KI8Ru-0001AQ-Tk; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:45:38 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2A69557E2DA; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:46:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> (David Robinow's message of "Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:40:33 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:100645 Archived-At: "David Robinow" writes: >> Since GNU/Linux works for so many others, I suspect there was a >> problem in installation. The best way to solve them is to ask an >> expert to do it for you. > I didn't need an expert for Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro, or Vista. > I spent 30 years as a computer programmer with a fair amount of unix > experience. I think I should be able to do a simple install. As mentioned, GNU/Linux works for so many others that it's probably an easily solvable problem.