From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Klaus Berndl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Best" way to run on Windows XP Date: 25 Jul 2005 19:50:27 +0200 Organization: "sd&m AG, Muenchen, Germany" Message-ID: References: <1122221022.525785.237790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <85ackc40cw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122314421 16002 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2005 18:00:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:00:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 25 20:00:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx7Ex-00083u-Oa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:59:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dx7HG-0001al-IF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:02:10 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!lnewsoutpeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewsinpeer01.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!news.sdm.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: callin11.muc.sdm.de Original-X-Trace: news.sdm.de 1122313829 6538 195.125.139.11 (25 Jul 2005 17:50:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.sdm.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:50:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132647 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28168 On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: David Kastrup > > Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:47:43 +0200 > > > > I think native build plus MSYS > > is a pretty good combination, but I have not actively tried it myself, > > not being a Windows user. > > AFAIK, MSYS is not a full suite of ports, its purpose is to provide an > environment for running configure scripts. Also, it has some > Cygwin-style maladies which could be a pain on Windows (for example, > Diff uses binary I/O, and thus compares files different when they only > differ in their end-of-line format, Newline vs CRLF). same for the diff shipped with cygwin! Klaus -- Klaus Berndl mailto: klaus.berndl@sdm.de sd&m AG http://www.sdm.de software design & management Carl-Wery-Str. 42, 81739 Muenchen, Germany Tel +49 89 63812-392, Fax -220