From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Galen Boyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs for sites with different operating systems and CVS. Date: 27 May 2003 23:05:18 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054095081 13708 80.91.224.249 (28 May 2003 04:11:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 04:11:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 28 06:11:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19KsH5-0003Xo-00 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 06:10:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19KsGm-0004FB-An for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2003 00:10:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!pln-w!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!c03.atl99!news.webusenet.com!newscene!novia!novia!sequencer.newscene.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-Sender: galenboyer@hotpop.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113771 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10266 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10266 When maintaining Emacs for a site where users are on different platforms, should you Check in compiled code for each platform? Check in source and give them the scripts to build for each platform? Check in the tar file and let them untar to their directories while just maintaining external packages? I think the second option, but then why is there, seemingly, a specific source tree for the windows Emacs? Are there different steps because there are special files and such which therefore make it difficult to build windows from the same source as Linux as ... Is there anyplace I can go to know what I should do to build Emacs from one source for multiple platforms, or do I dig through all of the notes and such in the etc directory. Are there any manuals and howtos as well as FAQs for site-admins? -- Galen deForest Boyer Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.