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: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 09:57:39 -0500 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039486649 29687 80.91.224.249 (10 Dec 2002 02:17:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:17:29 +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 18LZxg-0007ih-00 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 03:17:28 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18La81-0002qX-00 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 03:28:09 +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 18LPMQ-0004Yr-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 09:58:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LPLz-0004Xw-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 09:57:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LPLt-0004VE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 09:57:49 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18LPLs-0004Uv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 09:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18LPLi-0001G0-00 for ; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 15:57:34 +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 18LPLg-0001Ff-00 for ; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 15:57:32 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.47.34.2 Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039445851 4802 64.47.34.2 (9 Dec 2002 14:57:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:57:31 +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: 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:10024 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10024 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