From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 05:54:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eh05vv39.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhudidig.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 04:40:07 +0900
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
>
> > > No problem there, since I'm sure there are packaged pkg-configs.
> >
> > How do you mean "packaged"? They are just *.zip archives (not that it
> > isn't enough, IMO).
>
> I mean cd to the right place, unzip, and you're ready to run.
That's correct.
> > > > and making sure its pkg.m4 file is in the directory where aclocal
> > > > looks for such files.
> > >
> > > That's the kind of thing that shouldn't be necessary IMO.
> >
> > It cannot be avoided on Windows, because one needs to have 2
> > Posix-like trees: one for MSYS and another one for native MinGW
> > programs.
>
> So? If you need two copies of pkg-config, install twice.
One copy of pkg-config is enough, and there's no MSYS pkg-config
binaries available (AFAIK) to become the 2nd copy.
> If you don't, there should be an explanation of how to install it
> and then copy/mv pkg.m4 so that the caller that needs it can find
> it. It shouldn't be Andrew's or anybody else's problem to figure
> these things out (unless they have installed them already someplace
> other than where README.NT or whatever is appropriate suggests).
People should feel free to add to nt/INSTALL what they think is
necessary. My understanding for now is that no one really knows why
things didn't work for them, and my setup, described in nt/INSTALL,
does work for me.
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-04 12:01 Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake Andy Moreton
2014-05-04 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04 18:02 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-04 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04 23:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-05 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 7:00 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-04 19:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-05-04 19:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-05-04 19:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-05-04 20:28 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-05 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04 21:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-05-05 19:08 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-06 19:47 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-06 23:53 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-07 0:04 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-07 2:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-05-07 2:14 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-07 2:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 4:00 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-07 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-08 0:05 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-08 2:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-08 8:00 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-08 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-08 15:14 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-08 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 9:42 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-07 10:13 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-07 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 15:45 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-07 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 2:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 4:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-05-07 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 19:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-05-08 2:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-05-07 6:41 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-07 7:38 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-07 1:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-05-07 2:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 11:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-05-07 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 15:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-05-07 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 16:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-05-07 2:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 14:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-05-07 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-07 17:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-05-07 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-08 0:25 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-05 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 5:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 7:29 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-05 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 9:25 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-05 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 12:29 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-05 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 13:26 ` martin rudalics
2014-05-05 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04 17:55 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-05 22:17 ` Andy Moreton
2014-05-06 20:30 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-07 6:36 ` Jarek Czekalski
2014-05-07 6:42 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-07 6:52 ` Jarek Czekalski
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