From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFC] Correctly handling MinGW-w64 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:18:45 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <546A11D5.3090402@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87r3x2qyjg.fsf@wanadoo.es> <546973D0.7050306@cs.ucla.edu> <87ioieqxbb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <54697A45.1040505@cs.ucla.edu> <87egt1rhy4.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416237578 7167 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 15:19:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:19:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 16:19:31 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqO5R-0004Xt-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:19:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqO5R-0007BP-13 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58026) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqO54-0007BC-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:19:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqO4x-0008GG-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:19:06 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:50821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqO4x-0008G1-8Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:18:59 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA9439E80BC for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:18:57 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ud3uFq-2RlxZ for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:18:49 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DBC68A60004 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:18:48 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: <87egt1rhy4.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177417 Archived-At: =C3=93scar Fuentes wrote: > I thought that this type of tasks are the raison d'=C3=AAtre of `config= ure'. No, the point of 'configure' is to do things that ordinary C and 'make' c= annot.=20 Here, we have something that ordinary C can do, so 'configure' isn't ne= eded. > Doing that is a kludge. Perhaps, but doing it in 'configure' is a worse kludge. The stuff in=20 'conf_post.h' is, by design, included everywhere, and it's the logical pl= ace to=20 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=20 indicating which particular minor flavor of a Microsoft Windows developme= nt=20 environment is being used. Symbols like that are needed in src/w32*.c bu= t it'd=20 be nicer if they didn't need to be used in generic code.