From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multi-platform build system
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:43:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0ST2sG=Zy-dBPDFMe8ywYWrjBtju7sJ9Eikb2-RVnCCsDg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipnsbblw.fsf@wanadoo.es>
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 03:33, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:
> You are correct about the makefiles. You need cmake to generate
> them. But today you need some external tools (I'm talking about Windows)
> that would be unnecessary with cmake.
You would still need to install some unix tools to build the info
files, I think?
> So I can't see why requiring cmake
> instead of those Unix utils is unacceptable.
I suppose, the less common the tools are, the greater the resistance.
For many people (at least, people building Unixy tools, like Emacs, on
Windows), installing rm, cp etc. is not a prerequisite because they
will likely have them already installed.
Juanma
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-14 1:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 21:01 Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS (was: Emacs pretest 24.0.90) Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 22:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 22:23 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 23:37 ` Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:09 ` Multi-platform build system Miles Bader
2011-10-14 0:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:55 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 1:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:41 ` Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-14 1:43 ` Multi-platform build system Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 6:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-14 1:06 ` Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:18 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-14 1:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:47 ` Multi-platform build system Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 1:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 1:43 ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2011-10-14 2:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 3:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:57 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 2:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 2:28 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 2:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 5:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-14 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-14 8:20 ` Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS (was: Emacs pretest 24.0.90) Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 23:09 ` Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS Miles Bader
2011-10-14 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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