From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:48:14 +0900 Message-ID: <87zloggji9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <36366a980807101702r5677d096g8e62ef5b3e278868@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807111217m66d6cf4el777c197c107ce034@mail.gmail.com> <87skug6tq5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <4eb0089f0807111345h13eccdds9b2cf43370b94074@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> <87k5fph5rh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080713214648.GB1076@muc.de> <20080714195651.GF3445@muc.de> <487C5FA3.4070603@emf.net> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216338537 22516 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2008 23:48:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, Thomas Lord , emacs-devel@gnu.org, drobinow@gmail.com To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 18 01:49:44 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 1KJdEE-0007BO-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:49:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55243 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJdDL-0001Yr-36 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:48:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJdDF-0001X4-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:48:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJdDD-0001VN-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:48:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55286 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJdDC-0001V6-VV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:48:38 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]:33304) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJdD1-0003PW-UZ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:48:29 -0400 Original-Received: from 218.33.237.77.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.33.237.77] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1KJdCr-0002LV-UG; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:48:17 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E769C2F3A; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:48:14 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:54:45 -0400") Original-Lines: 14 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com 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:100909 Archived-At: Richard M Stallman writes: > I tried at one point to convince XFree86 to support the GNU > configuration spec. I even found a volunteer to implement that as a > wrapper around their existing configuration mechanism. But they did > not consider such compatibility very important, and I don't think they > installed this wrapper. Note that the current standard X distribution, Xorg, now uses gnu auto* tools for configuration. -Miles -- Apologize, v. To lay the foundation for a future offense.