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: Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:06:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83pqi01rcl.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcrsbgzb.fsf_-_@wanadoo.es> 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 1318554424 7678 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2011 01:07:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 14 03:07:00 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 1REWEm-00075b-Gc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:07:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44229 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWEl-00027j-C9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:06:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWEi-00027T-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWEh-0005TW-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:51773) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REWEh-0005TS-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:06:55 -0400 Original-Received: by gyf3 with SMTP id 3so535221gyf.0 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:06:54 -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=4yu16EnJSThUau2PPbOMlWyg2XVxMmqGH4McjAAN5fU=; b=SZsGz6NVorLuASibFeJelniRt3ZDqJRdI3CzjtOpNlqEVd/Wov+uDtUlqNUADchTAE pKkXnAv4WNOktFLGhawM9TKaXogiU6Ujd6CvY37/rVMh+BpsSuKxCV7H6hgi9RM5WTbn 1T2XIackCiLXtmrUy54GebfsVsJ17VYjDO/5s= Original-Received: by 10.68.34.226 with SMTP id c2mr12670211pbj.99.1318554414105; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.143.165.16 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:06:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87vcrsbgzb.fsf_-_@wanadoo.es> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.160.169 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:145176 Archived-At: > Time ago I volunteered to write a CMake [1] build spec for Emacs. It was > considered unnecessary by the people who does most of the work on the > current build systems. IIRC, it was also unacceptable, because the user would need CMake to build Emacs, as opposed to just generating makefiles than can be packed into the tarball. Is that so, or am I misremembering? =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma