From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Angelo Graziosi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Trunk bootstrap failure [Cygwin] Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:01:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4C3593FF.4040904@alice.it> References: <4C326C4F.2010604@alice.it> <4C32F295.7050608@alice.it> <4C344500.9010906@alice.it> <4C3518CD.3030609@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278579752 12475 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2010 09:02:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:02:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 08 11:02:31 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 1OWn01-0001GA-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:02:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41471 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWn01-0007S9-JD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:02:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37435 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWmzn-0007Pg-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:02:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWmzl-0005PV-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:02:15 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp206.alice.it ([82.57.200.102]:34345) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWmzj-0005Oa-9O; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [82.55.237.92] (82.55.237.92) by smtp206.alice.it (8.5.124.08) id 4C1A268C01647EF2; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:02:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:126901 Archived-At: Il 08/07/2010 7.54, Dan Nicolaescu ha scritto: > Angelo Graziosi writes: > >> Il 07/07/2010 18.22, Dan Nicolaescu ha scritto: >>> >>> It looks like the start_of_text function is only used on AIX and >>> MSDOS, so you can get the same result by completely removing start_of_text, which makes the >>> #define TEXT_START >>> unnecessary. >> >> Indeed. Emacs (rev.100746) bootstraps also with these patches: > > Thanks. Should I go ahead with this change then? I am afraid, but since I am not an Emacs developer (or C guru...), I do not understand completely the logic of the code in ecrt0.c, so I can take the responsibility to say 'GO'. What I can say is that Emacs bootstrapped in that way is still running. Ciao, Angelo. > >> Since 'start_of_text' is not used by Cygwin build, shouldn't 'ecrt0.c' >> be completely unnecessary? > > That's exactly the reason for this discussion: getting rid of ecrt0.c.