From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFC] Correctly handling MinGW-w64 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:57:42 +0200 Message-ID: <838uj9ddl5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r3x2qyjg.fsf@wanadoo.es> <546973D0.7050306@cs.ucla.edu> <87ioieqxbb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <54697A45.1040505@cs.ucla.edu> <87egt1rhy4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <546A11D5.3090402@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416239894 15363 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 15:58:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:58:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 16:58:08 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 1XqOgo-0006Cs-RT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:58:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqOgo-0001aq-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:58:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42445) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqOgg-0001Ni-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:58:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqOga-0004zW-CH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:57:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:60355) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqOga-0004zR-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:57:52 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF600600XAZUL00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:50:15 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF6006JEXBQGV00@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:50:15 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <546A11D5.3090402@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 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:177428 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:18:45 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert >=20 > =C3=93scar Fuentes wrote: > > I thought that this type of tasks are the raison d'=C3=AAtre of `= configure'. >=20 > No, the point of 'configure' is to do things that ordinary C and 'm= ake' cannot.=20 > Here, we have something that ordinary C can do, so 'configure' is= n't needed. But in practice, configure does also the other kind of thing. > More generally, it would be better yet if we didn't need a global s= ymbol=20 > indicating which particular minor flavor of a Microsoft Windows dev= elopment=20 > environment is being used. Symbols like that are needed in src/w32= *.c but it'd=20 > be nicer if they didn't need to be used in generic code. Isn't that so in the patch? Which parts of the patch, excluding configure.ac, would you consider not Windows-specific?