From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:33:15 +0000 Message-ID: <20080714193315.GE3445@muc.de> References: <4eb0089f0807111345h13eccdds9b2cf43370b94074@mail.gmail.com> <4eb0089f0807121340x5e26f6dbve03ef50b238f3a3a@mail.gmail.com> <87k5fph5rh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <20080713214648.GB1076@muc.de> <20080713225327.GC1076@muc.de> <20080714115810.GA3445@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216062465 26398 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2008 19:07:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drobinow@gmail.com To: Richard M Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 14 21:08:32 2008 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 1KITPU-0008Rc-EO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:08:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KITOc-0002tk-Bn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KITOX-0002tf-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:07:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KITOV-0002tT-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58106 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KITOV-0002tQ-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:3461 helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KITOV-0003GK-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 26706 invoked by uid 3782); 14 Jul 2008 19:07:29 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E53A92.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.58.146]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:07:26 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 10292 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Jul 2008 19:33:15 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:100694 Archived-At: 'evening, Richard! On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:39:05PM -0400, Richard M Stallman wrote: > And Richard, in particular, if somebody feeds the name of their system > through cut -d/ -f2 would you PLEASE not get sarcastic at them. > I don't know how to use the cut program, and I don't know what that > command does. It prints slice(s) out of a line of text, either by column numbers or (as here) by field numbers, given a separator. Spend 5 minutes browsing the man page or GNU text utilities manual. It's one of these things that somehow comes in handy quite a lot, but not _quite_ enough to remember its details. For example, this gets the CVS version number of a local file: grep cc-mode.el CVS/Entries | cut -d/ -f3 > But since you are talking about the name of the system, I will make > the guess that this has to do with the mistake of calling the system > "Linux". Yes. > I explain that error a few times every day, and I have lots of > practice in doing it. I do it in a courtious and straightfoward tone, > and never with sarcasm. Ah, OK, that's all right then. ;-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).