From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some error info from configure.bat please Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 02:22:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42C65F1B.1030706@student.lu.se> <42C6894C.5080702@student.lu.se> <42C6BA4E.6050700@student.lu.se> <42C70919.2070705@student.lu.se> Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120350456 3005 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2005 00:27:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 02:27:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DosKK-0007L0-GG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 02:27:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DosLS-0007ZU-Hq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 20:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DosKV-0007Bo-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 20:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DosKI-00074E-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 20:27:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DosKI-00073G-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 20:27:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.193] (helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DosLG-0001Sw-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 20:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so113606nfe for ; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:22:35 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NVEIV1OpuPv+OS/1kjGton01c1PHg7WtRhy8W79rPF+AQHBq3mM99qBi0sfJfaxtmYbchzSz32wpjRpfAwzt2TIj9LbLyivZrDUsXbrETX3jCRqJWRBKK42pYXwKqSnNLPz8cYjcOE0YFvzdD87Ybpp5iG5SZE64YIQIzjiGJiM= Original-Received: by 10.48.249.6 with SMTP id w6mr77245nfh; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:22:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.250.5 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 17:22:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <42C70919.2070705@student.lu.se> Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40165 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40165 On 7/2/05, Lennart Borgman wrote: > Juanma Barranquero wrote: > I would be glad if you explained a bit more. I wrote some instructions > for building on w32 and I surely noted you needed a special combination > of programs sometimes, like make and makeinfo. I was trying to get > things working with MSYS then. I even wrote a perl script to check > things. (It does not try to know all working combinations, it just warns > if it can't recognize the combination used. For more info se EmacsW32, > start at http://www.emacswiki.org/ or go to > http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html.) The problem is, I don't think that checking tools is a good strategy, on the long term. Different versions sometimes work or cease to work. I was able to build the Emacs info files with Cygwin for a while, and after some update or other the thing failed. Me, I've assembled a .ZIP with the tools needed (except MinGW, which I install separately), and I unzip it wherever I want to compile Emacs. They are completely separated of other installations of Unix tools that I may have on my computer, and for sure I don't intend to change anything inside it unless a future Emacs requires an upgrade (as Jason said, that sometimes happens with make-info). I don't even use the same tools for building Emacs and to build the info (there's a make incompatibility or something, I don't remember right now), so I have one .BAT to set the path for compilation, and compile (or bootstrap), and another .BAT to set the path for building info, etc. My current building environment for Emacs uses a mixture of MinGW, UnxUtils *and* GnuWin32 tools... (I don't use MSYS, though). > I never noticed any programs named "info" or "install-info" was needed > when doing this. What are you referring to? Sorry, info is not needed, I think. install-info is. Look at nt/multi-install-info.bat. --=20 /L/e/k/t/u