From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <33744.130.55.118.19.1269906524.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: <83634jglab.fsf@gnu.org> <831vf7ge57.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6hfeyzw.fsf@gnu.org> <83vdcig87f.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4sywpvv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83tys2fbxs.fsf@gnu.org> <87hbo1iubm.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269906625 3871 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2010 23:50:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:50:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , eller.helmut@gmail.com, Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Jason Rumney" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 30 01:50:18 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwOin-00052N-Ok for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:50:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwOin-0002Ll-A0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NwOii-0002LV-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59262 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NwOig-0002LN-Tm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwOif-0003mH-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from proofpoint1.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.25]:56690) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwOia-0003fc-R1; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by proofpoint1.lanl.gov (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o2TNmiac011179; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:49:30 -0600 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D903163A1D7; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:48:44 -0600 (MDT) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay2.lanl.gov Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59616163A1D6; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:48:44 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by webmail1.lanl.gov (Postfix, from userid 48) id 56E921CA81F6; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:48:44 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from 130.55.118.19 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:48:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87hbo1iubm.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.7.lanl7 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5, 1.2.40, 4.0.166 definitions=2010-03-29_19:2010-02-06, 2010-03-29, 2010-03-29 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:122890 Archived-At: >> Yes, we could (it just needs an additional -lws2 switch during >> linking) > > We already use functions from ws2. I think effort was made in the past > to dynamically load it when required, because network support was not > always installed on early versions of Windows 95, and because loading > the library at startup caused a dialup dialog to pop up when the default > network connection was a dialup connection. Neither of these is > probably a concern anymore, so it might be better to simplify the code > by with linking ws2 normally. Windows 95 could be installed with networking support but without ws2. That may be the target audience here. Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.