From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:12:45 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039416009 8616 80.91.224.249 (9 Dec 2002 06:40:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 06:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jbuehler@hekimian.com Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18LHaF-0002Ee-00 for ; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 07:40:03 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18LHkB-0000qK-00 for ; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 07:50:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LHWR-00052K-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 01:36:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LHW4-00050y-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 01:35:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LHW0-00050R-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 01:35:43 -0500 Original-Received: from gnudist.gnu.org ([199.232.41.7]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LHVz-000501-00; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 01:35:40 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by gnudist.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LHVx-0004zL-00; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 01:35:37 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA02698; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:12:45 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Richard Stallman In-Reply-To: Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9984 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9984 On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Richard Stallman wrote: > I don't recall seeing a message that answered the > original question: is cygwin close enough to an existing system-type > value that it would be simpler to use an existing value for it? I hypothesized that cygwin is much closer to a Unix/GNU system than it is to windows-nt, and Joe Buehler confirmed that. But some Windows aspects, such as case-insensitivity of the underlying file system, do need exceptions in Emacs code, and Joe took care of that by sending patches for Lisp packages. (I hope to review those patches soon.) > I have not read all the messages in this thread, since most of them > seem to be about technicalities of Cygwin and Windows that I don't > know anyway; perhaps some of them addressed that issue and I didn't > notice they did. Was that the case? If so, I will find them and read > them. I think the above is the bottom line of the discussions of this aspect of the Cygwin port. Joe, could you please confirm that?