From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS)
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:41:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxqk488ievc.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcrsbgzb.fsf_-_@wanadoo.es> ("Óscar Fuentes"'s message of "Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:37:44 +0200")
Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
> [snip]
>
> Time ago I volunteered to write a CMake [1] build spec for Emacs. It was
> considered unnecessary by the people who does most of the work on the
> current build systems. I will have some free time (sigh) on the next
> months, so I reiterate the offer in case anyone changed his mind.
The current build system works, it's complex mostly because of what
emacs needs (dumping is a big factor). We are using the standard GNU
tools, and there's a lot of collective experience dealing with those
tools.
Whatfor emacs 's the advantage of yet another build system that has not yet
What is the advantage for emacs of yet another build system that has not
been widely adopted by GNU projects?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-14 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 21:01 Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS (was: Emacs pretest 24.0.90) Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 22:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 22:23 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 23:37 ` Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:09 ` Multi-platform build system Miles Bader
2011-10-14 0:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:55 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 1:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2011-10-14 1:43 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 6:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-14 1:06 ` Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:18 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-14 1:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:47 ` Multi-platform build system Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 1:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 1:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 2:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 3:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:57 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 2:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 2:28 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 2:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 5:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-14 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-14 8:20 ` Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS (was: Emacs pretest 24.0.90) Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 23:09 ` Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS Miles Bader
2011-10-14 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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