From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making gnulib imports build on Windows Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:34:16 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83vd1bwjig.fsf@gnu.org> <82lj27p9up.fsf@gmail.com> <83mxmnvviz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296138987 15089 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2011 14:36:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:36:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 27 15:36:22 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiSxR-0007Gh-Hm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:36:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiSxR-0000Tw-2Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:36:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48999 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiSvn-00082J-NX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:34:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiSvm-0006lw-I2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:34:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:57583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiSvm-0006lj-Dn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: by ewy27 with SMTP id 27so834317ewy.0 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:34:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=kFs2RbQMMsFA7uUcg+LxnDDOfrmck1Y2zbJRKE2U3nU=; b=qjkzj9SdnAaQs3uYFmB6TL+uzNXRWBXLylk+qerDcGg0ODDeJhVRnqPq3TYwOlprRo bCBX+z+O4vkF9Xd+OBGfOxzWwcDGhBJfN912Wv33+F/4R9So8j89/86tIyUYjTOiwJNb VjeShNrwiYFpvN7PYEmC+Ss52Qv7w0W4dcvzk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=w1hT4MfThpaC46Sfl71WzIGpQLoVgCFGO5k8AphJR4OvN/7MaDDw6JR/EJprZUyTfO GMoaNOk0OcvkKVs8M8SmU5DmqvHap62O/9D2EwiAnAf7NBdMp0Qi5Dk4gnQVvH9sDP4c cX7F1x1VKgSijN4aguT5M4i1xJDDlwicp7+1E= Original-Received: by 10.213.29.16 with SMTP id o16mr3091531ebc.58.1296138876934; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:34:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.20.148 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:34:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:135104 Archived-At: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Andy Moreton wrote: > > Sorry if I was unclear. Initially the w32 build needs to be repaired, > but the longer term aim should surely be reducing the differences > between w32 build scripts ans the rest of emacs. This includes allowing > for additional toolchains (e.g. Mingw-w64, llvm). > > Mingw32 and wingw-w64 cross toolchains are available in some Linux distros. If > developers on other platforms could at least build the win32 port, it > would make it easier for those developers to check whether their changes > break the w32 build. It might also simplify building tarballs and binary > releases. I agree that this might be good goals, but could please such development be kept in a separate branch, not on the trunk?