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 03:21:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42C65F1B.1030706@student.lu.se> <42C6894C.5080702@student.lu.se> <42C6BA4E.6050700@student.lu.se> <42C70919.2070705@student.lu.se> <42C73742.3020605@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 1120354258 9615 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2005 01:30:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 01:30:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 03:30:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DotJj-0005BN-OU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:30:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DotKr-0002R1-EP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:31:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DotGF-0001Zo-Jv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DotFu-0001PV-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DotFu-0001O7-FB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:26:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.204] (helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DotGE-00043d-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so114013nfe for ; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:21:28 -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=EYgO6G/VlGo3oj7RS+WaE9jO0QKvHfa8t4zeJ+0oHTiNp2eRlDAPg2TO0s/T7GYm6LKOJhpQA4UyzX2W8Nnsxved7467tdR4gi/j0vSveDevfufZWEPW5JTQUoXFZwlGnoJbLDusPi7GiGOmmH6F6OqjIiPOPYfW+MoyHgGqv5U= Original-Received: by 10.48.4.10 with SMTP id 10mr77375nfd; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.250.5 with HTTP; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 18:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <42C73742.3020605@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:40169 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40169 On 7/3/05, Lennart Borgman wrote: > Maybe different strategies are needed for different times. Perhaps. But when I started compiling my own Emacs I would've been glad to have a list: "get texinfo from http://here, and make.xe from http://there, oh, and rm and other common tools from http://over/there." Adding to the problem is that, if the user overlooks the "cvs update -kb" bit of information, he's gonna think his make.exe doesn't work and he's gonna start losing hair really fast... (Been there, done that, lost the patience.) > Perhaps that could be extended a bit. I see three different current tool > packages on w32: GnuWin32, CygWin and MSYS+MinGW. Yes, although Cygwin is more for those that want a total Unix immersion environment in Windows; I wouldn't recommend it for a user that just wants to compile Emacs (building in Cygwin is more like building on GNU/Linux than in Windows). > I am not sure about > UnxUtilites, are they maintained? I think there's only one developer and the last update is from 2003; still, the simple tools (like rm, cp) work for me much better than the ones in MSYS, for example (I had weird network issues with these). > Staying with one of those for a > particular purposes may be the best. >=20 > In my case I have decided to go with GnuWin32+MinGW when building Emacs. That is two ;-) > Currently I have > MSYS installed, but it is not on my path (except for sometimes inside > Emacs). I do the opposite: I have MSYS and MinGW on my path, but I take them out for building and running Emacs (but I never use shell buffers inside Emacs). --=20 /L/e/k/t/u