From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: offby1@blarg.net, william.xue@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help: build emacs in cygwin
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:26:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HPmbT-0000V3-No@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u3b4eo560.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:36:07 +0200)
> Cygwin uses the build procedure documented in the main INSTALL file,
> which is correct as far as we know.
>
> nt/INSTALL does not say that.
Yes, it does: it talks about a "native Windows build", which is the
opposite of Cygwin.
That is an indirect way of saying it. Perhaps some people won't
understand. The more explicit the message, the less people will
misunderstand.
Anyway, Cygwin users are used to run the usual "./configure; make"
commands one uses on GNU/Linux to build packages.
That may be true for Cygwin users with experience.
But not for new ones.
> nt/INSTALL does not say that. Shouldn't it?
I added something to say this even more clearly than we did before.
Your change made it a little clearer, but didn't say anything about
Cygwin. I added an explicit statement about Cygwin.
When something is really important to communicate, it's a mistake to
ask whether it "should be clear the way it is". The question to ask is,
"Can we do anything to make sure people get the message?"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-09 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-06 8:01 Help: build emacs in cygwin William Xue
2007-03-06 20:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-07 1:27 ` William Xue
2007-03-07 4:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-07 8:22 ` William Xue
2007-03-08 4:49 ` William Xue
2007-03-09 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-09 21:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-10 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-12 5:26 ` Harald Maier
2007-03-12 22:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <87ejo2nrf6.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net>
2007-03-07 1:23 ` William Xue
2007-03-07 4:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-07 16:47 ` Eric Hanchrow
2007-03-08 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-08 6:49 ` Eric Hanchrow
2007-03-09 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-08 7:01 ` djh
2007-03-09 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-09 21:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-10 9:38 ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-10 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-11 4:23 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-20 7:36 ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-21 0:42 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-13 0:17 ` djh
2007-03-13 4:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <20070313145148.3496@henman-np.b-eng.it.to-be.co.jp>
2007-03-13 20:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-07 17:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-08 4:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-08 21:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-09 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-09 21:26 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-03-10 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-11 20:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-09 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-09 15:24 Help: build emacs in cygwin (fwd) Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-13 13:10 ` Help: build emacs in cygwin Angelo Graziosi
2007-03-13 18:23 ` Harald Maier
2007-03-14 0:52 ` Angelo Graziosi
2007-03-14 1:31 ` djh
2007-03-14 7:41 ` Jason Rumney
2007-02-23 18:15 cygwin succesfull straight build Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-07 13:37 ` Help: build emacs in cygwin Angelo Graziosi
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