From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:15:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjwx3lwt.fsf@gnu.org> <3mfvyp7jx6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83r4i92jdk.fsf@gnu.org> <83mwsx2h8o.fsf@gnu.org> <29a9oxcaca.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366222526 13553 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2013 18:15:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:15:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 17 20:15:30 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 1USWtC-0003hM-1G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:15:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USWtB-0004z1-A2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:15:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40085) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USWt6-0004ts-IQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USWt1-0008BM-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59943) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USWt1-0008BI-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1USWt0-0000fP-GF; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:15:14 -0400 X-Spook: CESID Downing Street Panama mailbomb MD5 John Kerry ANC X-Ran: dwJAC9\i}DGDizhj:cbe4hL0CL/'le<$59l||p:rUG0\ORr@>~X,b}}Y18O=6iF1do,rxj X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <29a9oxcaca.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:53:41 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:158982 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > Oh, hmph, I actually bothered to read the configure code this time... > So they are explicitly testing if links to directories work, which will > handle the AFS case as well. So if we are only interested in links to > _files_ (in the same directory) rather than directories as well, LN_S is > too strict for us. Looks like there is no existing autoconf test for > "portable link to a file within the same directory". So probably we should just go back to using "ln", and forget about AC_PROG_LN_S, sigh. (Or write our own test for the features of ln -s that we want to use). In any case, it's not something you should have had to worry about as part of your changes, sorry.