From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: configure-more.zip Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 13:12:44 +0200 Message-ID: <42C676AC.2020903@student.lu.se> References: <42C65DE9.6010703@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120303808 11312 80.91.229.2 (2 Jul 2005 11:30:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 11:30:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 02 13:30:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DogBw-0007RS-Ei for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 13:29:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DogD2-0007be-8h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DogBN-0007TJ-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DogBK-0007Sw-9k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DogAv-00073m-KB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dog1A-00089F-En; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:18:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B93717001D8025; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 13:13:10 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: 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:40093 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40093 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >Why send it as a .zip file in a binary attachment, when all you want >to send is plain text for inclusion in configure.bat? > > > Because sending a bat-file was not allowed. >Finally, I think the Windows build needs neither `find' nor `xargs'. >Can you tell where you saw them used? > > When building info files I believed, but that may be wrong. I might also have been when I was trying to make things working using MSYS I saw that and draw a bad conclusion. But all this was quite a while ago. >Therefore, I suggest the following strategy for solving the -kb issue: >put a small C program into the nt subdirectory which would read >nt/configure.bat, nt/nmake.defs, and nt/makefile.w32-in in binary mode >and make sure they have the right line endings; if they don't, this >program would fail. Then have this program invoked by "make bootstrap" >in the nt directory. > >Would you like to implement this solution? > > You mean build and run this program at the end of configure.bat? Would not "make bootstrap" be too late? Yes, it seems like a better solution. I will try.