From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.90 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:18:37 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87litcvtu2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <565EF29AD574471187720A71C5ABD45D@us.oracle.com> <83k48awlp1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318421979 6612 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2011 12:19:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , cyd@stupidchicken.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 12 14:19:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RDxmP-0005Pv-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:19:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDxmO-0002fZ-Az for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52563) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDxmL-0002en-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:19:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDxmJ-0005Pq-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:61954) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDxmH-0005PL-Pv; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:19:17 -0400 Original-Received: by qadb17 with SMTP id b17so615821qad.0 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:19:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hT+zIWB1XqI7OnrXP16kry2LOhbFV7dBBPGkxb+LBVI=; b=s3HBpIJjW9CObSBKOQoRx5uJFZ1LKTrV80eI8UGFLILZNdGTa11VnUmeckhIE91+ML lSo1S9otqViwKJW1S5RfU4prhDR4IkNAykjy0lGQ3xsYsICCtc9W9zS9y6XrXzPmXUxO Z0ce4OcKja9EVFvajzSgBYaBW5tgdwZKn9RE0= Original-Received: by 10.68.56.72 with SMTP id y8mr892288pbp.82.1318421957070; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.143.165.16 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:18:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144984 Archived-At: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 14:07, Dani Moncayo wrote: > From "http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS": > > =C2=A0MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and > grep to allow > =C2=A0building of applications and programs which depend on traditionally= UNIX tools > =C2=A0to be present. It is intended to supplement MinGW and the > deficiencies of the cmd shell. In other words, it would be perhaps useful to build a POSIX Emacs on Windows, less so to build the Emacs port, which doesn't really depend on "traditional UNIX tools" apart of make and a few simple file tools like mv and cp. The description you quote is talking about autoconf, etc. That said, MSYS was created to build MinGW tools. If they now advertise it as a general tool to build "programs which depend on traditionally UNIX tools", they are competing with Cygwin... > As I said, I'm able to successfully build the latest Emacs trunk on > Windows using exclusively MinGW and MSYS Which means that you are using MinGW, and a few tools from MSYS. If that works for you, I'm glat to hear it. But I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Just out of curiosity, are you able to build the Emacs info files with MSYS' makeinfo? =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma