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: Failure to bootstrap on Windows Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 15:02:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83egha2659.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83io6qap6y.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbaq8quk.fsf@gnu.org> <837fn68fsj.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2r55mke.fsf@gnu.org> <83fv1t5fij.fsf@gnu.org> <8337xt5bt0.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvw04aff.fsf@gnu.org> <831tdb2kc1.fsf@gnu.org> <83io6m2933.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443960197 21293 80.91.229.3 (4 Oct 2015 12:03:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 12:03:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 04 14:03:11 2015 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 1Zii0U-0005iK-Bo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 14:03:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42265 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zii0O-00018l-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 08:03:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35746) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zii0B-00018R-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 08:02:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zii06-0004wC-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 08:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:53080) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zii06-0004vw-Mb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 08:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVP005002D7VV00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 15:02:45 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVP005ME2SKVO10@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 04 Oct 2015 15:02:45 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:190877 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 13:51:09 +0200 > Cc: Emacs developers > > Thanks for the EZWinPorts. They're great and, were not for them, I > doubt I would have the energy to chase down libraries and tools to > build Emacs. Well, I built them because the existing ports are not good enough or old or simply don't exist. That site is just a collection of stuff I use myself. It sounded silly not to let others use what I consider to be good enough for my day-to-day use. The only problem is that there are no 64-bit builds of comparable quality, AFAIK.