From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs build on Windows: Prerequisites Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:25:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87r6sai5m5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172694324 24475 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2007 20:25:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 28 21:25:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HMVML-0008WU-Rj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:25:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMVMM-0005uy-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMVMC-0005uj-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HMVMB-0005uO-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMVMA-0005uL-Tv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:24:58 -0500 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HMVMA-0000o7-B0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:24:58 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-14-208.inter.net.il [80.230.14.208]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id BZS14856 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:24:51 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87r6sai5m5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:67059 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:55:46 +0900 > Cc: Emacs Devel > > > Why should Emacs build on windows need those tools? Why can't it use > > the windows equivalents? > > Because they're not equivalent. They are by and large much less > powerful, with idiosyncratic syntax that often does not mix well with > scripts and idiosyncratic semantics such as rather low limits on > number of command line arguments, causing mysterious build failures. That was so in the past, but Windows versions since W2K on don't have these limitations, and the equivalent commands are as powerful as the Posix ones. However, we still support the older versions of Windows.