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: nt/makefile.w32-in Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:56:31 +0100 Message-ID: <458B1F2F.5090206@student.lu.se> References: <458A71F9.2050709@gnu.org> <458AFA12.4010700@student.lu.se> <458B0F4C.90909@student.lu.se> <458B15E5.7040201@gnu.org> <458B1A41.6030401@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166745469 4959 80.91.229.10 (21 Dec 2006 23:57:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:57:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 22 00:57:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GxXnC-0004vA-SU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:57:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxXnC-0007OB-E7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxXmC-0006Ny-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:56:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxXm9-0006Kz-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:56:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxXm9-0006Kp-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:56:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GxXm3-0002LI-Tb; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:56:32 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62321 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GxXm1-0000vQ-6H; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:56:30 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0661-1, 2006-12-21), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1GxXm1-0000vQ-6H. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1GxXm1-0000vQ-6H d6bc10963ea45234dfe00c392ac8cfbc 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:64082 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On 12/22/06, Lennart Borgman wrote: > >> If we assume the make ports people use does not care about line endings, >> then yes. Otherwise no. > > I think we can safely assume something stronger: that relatively few > people try to build Emacs on Windows (the only build environment where > the [gn]make.defs issue is relevant), and the ones who do are usually > able to gather the info they need to successfully compile Emacs, > whether from a source tarball or from CVS. That's not to say we don't > have to make things easy; but certainly doesn't seem an urgent issue > right now. > > (This from yours truly, who twice spent a good deal of time wondering > why nmake refused to work before thinking of checking line endings...) I was going to write something similar, but my conclusion is different. What harm does it make to make the change now then? It will be in the release if we make it.