From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:41:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83pqi01rcl.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcrsbgzb.fsf_-_@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318552900 31412 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2011 00:41:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 14 02:41:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1REVq8-0005mG-GS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:41:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REVq7-0004wH-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35973) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REVq5-0004wB-DP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:41:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REVq4-0007yP-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:41:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42347) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REVq4-0007yL-9D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:41:28 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1REVq4-0004pM-39; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:41:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87vcrsbgzb.fsf_-_@wanadoo.es> (=?utf-8?Q?=22=C3=93scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:37:44 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:145172 Archived-At: =C3=93scar Fuentes 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.=20 Whatfor emacs 's the advantage of yet another build system that has not yet= =20 What is the advantage for emacs of yet another build system that has not been widely adopted by GNU projects?=20