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: Some comments on the MSYS-based build Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:34:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83a9n2uxn9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hahfysx4.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370594120 25091 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2013 08:35:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 08:35:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 07 10:35:17 2013 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 1Uks8j-0002BP-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:35:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60398 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uks8j-0004nV-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41087) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uks8c-0004ll-De for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:35:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uks8Y-0005kY-Ei for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:42125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uks8Y-0005hz-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MO000E00L56D800@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:35:04 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MO000EKZL6F5770@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:35:03 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87hahfysx4.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:160192 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:01:59 +0200 >=20 > /nt/INSTALL.MSYS says >=20 > "A nice GUI installer, called mingw-get," >=20 > mingw-get has no GUI yet. It is a planned feature. However, > mingw-get-inst (confusing, uh?) is a GUI front-end that invokes > mingw-get for MinGW/MSYS installation. It onlyl supports the most > essential packages, though. The URL for mingw-get-inst is: >=20 > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-ins= t/ I removed the "GUI" part. > /nt/INSTALL.MSYS says that mingw-developer-toolkit and msys-automak= e > should be installed. The mingw-get XML file for mingw-developer-too= lkit > says that it includes mingw-automake and the XML file for msys-auto= make > says: >=20 > This msys port of automake has been modified spe= cifically for > the MSYS System Builder (msys-dvlpr) environment; that is= , it is > intended to be used only when producing binary packages f= or the MSYS > subsystem. If you intend to produce executables for the = native > "mingw32" subsystem (that is, applications that should wo= rk on > Microsoft Windows installations without the MSYS dll), th= en you should > install the mingw32-automake-*, and/or the mingw32-automa= ke1.NN-* > packages instead. >=20 > so it seems that msys-automake is unnecesary. I removed that. What about autoconf, does it get installed by other packages, or does it need to be installed separately? If the latter, I think the only alternative is the one I provided on sourceforge, is that right? I also added a pointer to --enable-locallisppath switch. Thanks.