From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.90 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:07:46 +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=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318421281 1550 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2011 12:08:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , cyd@stupidchicken.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 12 14:07:54 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 1RDxbG-00084X-DH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:07:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43029 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDxbF-0001H8-Jy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:07:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35415) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDxbC-0001H0-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDxbB-0002ME-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:49242) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDxb9-0002ER-CH; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: by gya6 with SMTP id 6so729758gya.0 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:07:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=E6J27qIR9IfsP3yh1CoBoHtgQbgBm4ExDCuJbsiY20Q=; b=r/kLUrXxnnMqCCuRQVv9iZ7UAfrK4GGPBJlHJkrmKBWdkHTzNyHYL3zwKd3in2X1oK bI1pgmJ1VAQLBFY/iWy/VQCfxo1O+ygnVxNNbjPb0GNpCR5gun7g6urrq0mWVwgc8d4s rP2X0g7FoXsUCnhH82I2ENd2818qoZN5Luhi0= Original-Received: by 10.236.183.233 with SMTP id q69mr36654360yhm.129.1318421266974; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.236.207.6 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:07:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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:144983 Archived-At: >> Therefore, what I say is that it would be great if the version of >> "make" that comes with MSYS didn't have the problem I (and you) said, > > But MSYS' make does not have any "problem". It works well for its > purpose: to build MinGW packages. MSYS is not, and has never been, > intended as a generic "Unix tools package for Windows". That's what > GnuWin32 is for. >From "http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS": MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and grep to allow building of applications and programs which depend on traditionally UNIX tools to be present. It is intended to supplement MinGW and the deficiencies of the cmd shell. This description doesn't seems to be the same as yours: "to allow building of applications and programs" not "to build MinGW packages". As I said, I'm able to successfully build the latest Emacs trunk on Windows using exclusively MinGW and MSYS, which are both conveniently integrated into a package manager (mingw-get). The only obstacle is the one already explained, which apparently has a very simple workaround (already explained too). -- Dani Moncayo