From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:13:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366143233 11775 80.91.229.3 (16 Apr 2013 20:13:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 16 22:13:57 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1USCGI-0003Kr-6K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:13:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52056 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USCGH-0008Bt-MY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:13:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58475) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USCGD-0008Bo-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USCGC-00084F-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:13:49 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:44278) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USCGC-000849-8H; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id r3GKDku8028495; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9BD69B4178; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:13:46 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:24:29 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4551=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9362 : core <4551> : streams <942362> : uri <1395851> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158960 Archived-At: > This job is finished, as far as my todo list and debugging are > concerned: Emacs and all the auxiliary programs build, get installed, > and seem to work. I performed a full bootstrap several times and also > several partial builds, including a few parallel builds. "make > install" likewise works. Great, thank you Eli. I'm not an autoconf or w32 guru, so I'll keep my comments/questions to the minimum below. > -OPTION_DEFAULT_OFF([w32], [use native MS Windows GUI]) > +OPTION_DEFAULT_OFF([w32], [use native MS Windows GUI in a Cygwin build]) Why is it only for Cygwin builds? > +LN_EMACS="\$(LN_S)" > +if test "$opsys" = "mingw32"; then > + LN_EMACS="ln" > +fi > +AC_SUBST(LN_EMACS) Could we run `ln' to see if it handles -s, instead of testing $opsys? > + Do not use these instructions with MSYS encironment. For building ^^^^^^^^^^^ > + You are almost there, hand on. ^^^^ hang > --- nt/gnulib.mk 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 > +++ nt/gnulib.mk 2013-03-31 13:14:54 +0000 > @@ -0,0 +1,858 @@ > +## This file is an edited copy if ../lib/gnulib.mk. Could we auto-generate this file, based on a new nt/gnulib.mkdiff script? Stefan