Re: [PATCHES] patches for compiling GNU emacs 21.2 under Cygwin

[Joe Buehler <jbuehler@hekimian.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 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 think the above is the bottom line of the discussions of this aspect of 
> the Cygwin port.  Joe, could you please confirm that?

If I understand the question, yes, there are indeed parts of the .el files
where it is not appropriate to use either ms-dos or windows-nt as the system-type,
and there are places where it is.  For example, the Cygwin shells do not use
%VAR% to substitute environment variables.  On other other hand, Cygwin
runs on top of Windows, so filename case-insensitivity is the same as
for the windows ports.

Joe Buehler