From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 13:39:54 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039027419 25979 80.91.224.249 (4 Dec 2002 18:43:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:43:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JeUk-0006km-00 for ; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:43:38 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Jeeq-0000xb-00 for ; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:54:05 +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 18JeRk-0000ey-00; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 13:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JeRC-0000PO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 13:39:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JeRA-0000OX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 13:39:57 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JeRA-0000OQ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 13:39:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JeOq-0006Gx-00 for ; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:37:32 +0100 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JeOp-0006Go-00 for ; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:37:31 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.47.34.2 Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039027051 22887 64.47.34.2 (4 Dec 2002 18:37:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 18:37:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9862 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9862 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