From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIERqw6Rydg==?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cannot build on w32 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:01:41 +0100 Message-ID: <4D373515.6010902@swipnet.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295463992 5223 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2011 19:06:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sam Steingold Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 19 20:06:28 2011 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 1PfdMR-0004Tc-F6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:06:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48596 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfdIh-000546-72 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:02:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42565 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfdI8-0004mW-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PfdHv-0003PH-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from smtprelay-h22.telenor.se ([195.54.99.197]:48565) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PfdHu-0003Oo-2g; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:01:46 -0500 Original-Received: from ipb1.telenor.se (ipb1.telenor.se [195.54.127.164]) by smtprelay-h22.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 294071414A; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:01:44 +0100 (CET) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.100] X-LISTENER: [smtp.bredband.net] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Asw3AH7DNk1V4S1kPGdsb2JhbACEEYRNm2kMAQEBATUvryGQMYEkgzh0BI5C X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,345,1291590000"; d="scan'208";a="167294940" Original-Received: from c-642de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.100]) by ipb1.telenor.se with ESMTP; 19 Jan 2011 20:01:43 +0100 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.13] (zeplin [172.20.199.13]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3198F7FA05A; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:01:43 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101129 Thunderbird/3.1.7 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:134768 Archived-At: Sam Steingold skrev 2011-01-19 18.36: > I think you got it exactly wrong. > autoconf - when used on _all_ platforms - is the solution. > the _problem_ is that it is not used on on some platforms (win32) and > this is why emacs does not build on windows now. > if autoconf were used on windows, emacs would have built ootb. OSX uses autoconf and doesn't build right now... Jan D.