From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs build on Windows: Prerequisites
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:05:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E5FCB5.5050104@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3f230850702280531r34d1c4b2ge5a93bdfd9abed5@mail.gmail.com>
dhruva wrote:
> Before I start modifying the build files, I
> wanted to know if there was a reason that I had completely missed out.
> I just wanted to avoid spending time on a topic which was already
> visited by other developers.
>
There are a couple of paragraphs of commentary in nt/gmake.defs about
why past maintainers chose to require cp and rm to build Emacs rather
than use the Windows native del and copy commands.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-28 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-28 12:58 Emacs build on Windows: Prerequisites dhruva
2007-02-28 13:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 13:31 ` dhruva
2007-02-28 22:05 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2007-03-01 4:17 ` dhruva
2007-03-01 10:44 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-02 14:28 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-03-02 14:57 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-02 15:20 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-03-02 15:33 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-02 19:41 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-03-02 20:10 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-02 20:51 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-03-03 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-03 13:54 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-03-01 4:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 16:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-02-28 20:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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