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: Emacs pretest 24.0.90 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:16:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83d3e25ozx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87litcvtu2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <565EF29AD574471187720A71C5ABD45D@us.oracle.com> <83k48awlp1.fsf@gnu.org> <83ehyiwgdq.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318425577 31928 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2011 13:19:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, dmoncayo@gmail.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 12 15:19:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RDyiY-0005tX-9q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:19:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDyiX-0005eC-Q5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43397) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDyiU-0005cd-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:19:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDyiS-000521-Su for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:33992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDyiS-00051r-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:19:24 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LSY00300FGVYH00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:16:34 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.51.78]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LSY002GWFJKLMM0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:16:34 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:144996 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Dani Moncayo , lekktu@gmail.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:46:50 -0400 > > > Emacs is not in that category, because it has a Windows configure.bat > > script to configure it and Windows makefile.w32-in Makefiles that do > > not require a Posix shell. > > Would MinGW+MSYS work to build Emacs if Emacs adapted its autoconf > script to handle Windows as well? Yes, it will. However, installing MSYS means installing a large number of programs and DLLs, and people who already have a working MinGW development environment that doesn't include MSYS will need to be extra careful when doing such an installation, to avoid breaking their main development environment.