From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problem with library images on Windows (again) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:16:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116455045 20335 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 22:24:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 19 00:24:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYWvb-0000Zw-ES for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 00:22:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYWy7-0006fC-AW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:24:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYWvW-0003RR-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYWvI-0003FN-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:21:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYWvH-00036J-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:21:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DYWy7-0003jZ-Uq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:24:48 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4IMGOch020655; Wed, 18 May 2005 23:16:24 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B010CDDE60; Wed, 18 May 2005 23:16:23 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Wed, 18 May 2005 17:53:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) 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:37297 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37297 Juanma Barranquero writes: > > So, I can apply the attached patch and at least stop Emacs from > crashing on Windows, but I certainly would appreciate a more > insightful analysis from the "people in the know" wrt image support > and/or Windows. Better to disable image support for MSVC builds than to try to hack things to work by introducing redundant variables to save the values of other variables in. Such hacks might be worth it to support free software where we can see whether the hack really does fix the problem, but not for proprietary blackboxes.