From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.berkeley.edu>
Cc: 19989@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19989: 25.0.50; Build instructions on Windows
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 11:04:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54FC1EBE.6080703@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150308060707.GA32312@math.berkeley.edu>
>> The problem is that most users are trying to be clever. At least I did
>> and AFAICT Ilya did too.
>
> Yes — the first 8 times. The last try was by following the
> instructions literally (as close as I can after 9 hours of
> unsuccessful trying).
>
>> That's of no help. What's really needed is a
>> stubborn, dense person who complains immediately when something doesn't
>> work out as written in INSTALL.
>
> This is exactly what I do.
You didn't. Otherwise, you would have started right away "by following
the instructions literally". And an important guideline is: Never do
anything extraneous when following INSTALL instructions. Unfortunately,
installers likes those for mingw/msys offer too many pitfalls in this
area. Especially when resolving dependencies.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-08 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-03 16:34 bug#19989: 25.0.50; Build instructions on Windows Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-03 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-03 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-03 20:30 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-04 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-05 21:18 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-06 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-06 9:21 ` martin rudalics
2015-03-06 9:59 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-06 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-07 1:44 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-07 9:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-08 6:22 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-08-15 8:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-15 11:22 ` Dani Moncayo
2015-08-15 11:38 ` Dani Moncayo
2015-08-15 12:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-15 12:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-15 12:24 ` Dani Moncayo
2015-08-15 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-15 13:39 ` Dani Moncayo
2015-03-06 10:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-06 14:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-03-06 14:14 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-03-06 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-07 1:47 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-07 2:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-03-07 9:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-06 18:53 ` martin rudalics
2015-03-06 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-07 9:40 ` martin rudalics
2015-03-07 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-07 10:28 ` martin rudalics
2015-03-08 6:07 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-08 10:04 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2015-03-08 16:07 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-06 9:46 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-06 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-07 1:37 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-06 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-07 1:35 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-07 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-08 6:14 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-08 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-08 16:04 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2015-03-08 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-03 21:15 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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