From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22959: Emacs on Windows depends on libwinpthreads Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:16:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83h9gfo41z.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87egbj4sbh.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83d1r3pqr0.fsf@gnu.org> <871t7j4no3.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ziu7oaej.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvq7mqe2.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457551045 32445 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2016 19:17:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:17:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 22959@debbugs.gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 20:17:15 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1adjbb-0004U6-QM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:17:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjbb-0008Bb-4v for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:17:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42389) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjbX-0008B2-C6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:17:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjbS-0004ty-J8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:17:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44694) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjbS-0004to-FU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:17:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1adjbS-0007Hm-9u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:17:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 19:17:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 22959 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 22959-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B22959.145755096727926 (code B ref 22959); Wed, 09 Mar 2016 19:17:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22959) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Mar 2016 19:16:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41819 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1adjaY-0007GM-V1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51014) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1adjaY-0007Fd-A5 for 22959@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:16:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjaO-0004Tq-7Q for 22959@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:16:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44744) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjaO-0004Tl-43; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:15:56 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4194 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1adjaN-0001m9-DV; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:15:55 -0500 In-reply-to: <87mvq7mqe2.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:114664 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: 22959@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:56:37 +0000 > > >> The other solution is > >> > >> ./configure CFLAGS=-static > > > > If that gives reasonable results, yes. What problems, if any, does it > > create? > > Well, it works, which is a reasonable result. > > Disadvantage? I guess, if it is dropped into an existing ming-w64 > installation, then it will (effectively) duplicate the libwinpthread > binary that is there. More, it will not gain any updates to that > libwinpthread library. If Emacs is being used standalone on a system > with no other part of mingw/msys then these points are moot. If that's the only problem, then I'd say go for it.