From: Joe Buehler <jbuehler@hekimian.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 13:39:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <asli1b$mb7$1@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1021204162419.5872B-100000@is>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Actually, I'd expect the Cygwin build be very close to the Unix and GNU
> systems, not to windows-nt. But there are, at least in principle, cases
> where they will need to do something Windowsish, like with
> case-sensitivity in file names.
I just went through all uses of system-type, and that's exactly right.
The windows-nt system-type is being used to mean all sorts of things,
such as "be case-insensitive for file names" and some of them apply to
Cygwin, but many do not, because the programming API is that of UNIX.
Joe Buehler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-04 18:39 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <amvm2v$l11$1@main.gmane.org>
2002-11-27 17:43 ` [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin Eli Zaretskii
2002-11-28 8:01 ` Roman Belenov
2002-11-28 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-11-29 5:57 ` Roman Belenov
2002-12-02 16:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-12-02 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-02 19:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-12-02 20:36 ` Jason Rumney
2002-12-03 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-03 14:17 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-03 14:14 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-03 16:37 ` Joe Buehler
2002-12-03 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-03 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-04 7:39 ` Roman Belenov
2002-12-03 23:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-12-04 11:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-04 11:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-04 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-04 18:39 ` Joe Buehler [this message]
2002-12-05 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-06 13:31 ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-07 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <E18LD00-0004Ov-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
2002-12-09 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-09 14:57 ` Joe Buehler
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