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: CMake build anyone? Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:07:05 +0300 Message-ID: <83hbjnaqli.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87aapfxyhc.fsf@telefonica.net> <87wrsjwijl.fsf@telefonica.net> <83mxtfb7uo.fsf@gnu.org> <874ofnw8j4.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280113680 21464 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2010 03:08:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:08:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 05:07:58 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdE2m-0002ad-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:07:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OdE2m-0007wQ-7v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:07:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41008 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OdE2f-0007vk-8y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:07:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdE2e-0001EO-2J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:56871) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdE2d-0001EH-Q9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L6500I009S7U800@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:07:05 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.61.30]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L6500HUJ9ZS9I50@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:07:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <874ofnw8j4.fsf@telefonica.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127813 Archived-At: > From: =C3=93scar Fuentes > Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:34:07 +0200 >=20 > > As long as you are not asking the end users to have CMake install= ed > > (and I hope you don't), the DOS build will be okay. >=20 > A CMake install is required. Maybe that is an issue for MSDOS users= , Forget MSDOS. It's a problem for everyone. It means to build Emacs the end users will have to install a tool that is not there out of th= e box. I think this is a serious argument against using CMake. > because there is no cmake port for MSDOS AFAIK. That should be the least of our problems. > If you imply that requiring cmake for Windows people is too a serio= us > inconvenience, it should be noted that cmake makes gnuwin32/msys > unnecessary MSYS is already unnecessary (and even not recommended), and GnuWin32 is just a bunch of ported programs with no relation to one another. The Windows build requires only `cp' and `rm', and they don't have to be from GnuWin32. > For the time being, we can put MSDOS aside and go ahead if cmake is= seen > as convenient enough by the Windows maintainers. I think it's inconvenient even on GNU/Linux.