From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Correctly handling MinGW-w64
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:18:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <546A11D5.3090402@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egt1rhy4.fsf@wanadoo.es>
Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> I thought that this type of tasks are the raison d'être of `configure'.
No, the point of 'configure' is to do things that ordinary C and 'make' cannot.
Here, we have something that ordinary C can do, so 'configure' isn't needed.
> Doing that is a kludge.
Perhaps, but doing it in 'configure' is a worse kludge. The stuff in
'conf_post.h' is, by design, included everywhere, and it's the logical place to
put global things that don't need 'configure''s help.
More generally, it would be better yet if we didn't need a global symbol
indicating which particular minor flavor of a Microsoft Windows development
environment is being used. Symbols like that are needed in src/w32*.c but it'd
be nicer if they didn't need to be used in generic code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-17 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-17 3:24 [RFC] Correctly handling MinGW-w64 Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 4:04 ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-17 4:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 4:32 ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-17 14:59 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 15:18 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2014-11-17 15:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 18:23 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 19:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 22:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-18 3:31 ` Glenn Morris
2014-11-18 3:50 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-18 14:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-18 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 16:03 ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-17 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 16:02 ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-17 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 4:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 16:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-17 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-17 17:34 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-11-18 8:24 ` Stephen Leake
2014-11-18 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
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