From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 64 bit official Windows builds Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 17:52:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83lh8ile4n.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2577057e-98d3-41ce-ade2-1496648b09c3@googlegroups.com> <837fk3m141.fsf@gnu.org> <87bn9evefh.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r3ialic7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451058719 13653 80.91.229.3 (25 Dec 2015 15:51:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 15:51:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 25 16:51:59 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1aCUes-0005nc-80 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:51:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35722 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCUer-0000wB-Lp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:51:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46269) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCUef-0000uY-3v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:51:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCUeb-00032Y-Rd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:51:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCUeb-00032L-M4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:51:41 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3763 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aCUea-0002BD-W0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:51:41 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Random832 on Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:32:29 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108479 Archived-At: > From: Random832 > Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:32:29 -0500 > > Would it be viable to shift this step to an installer process, > for cross-compiled builds? Maybe even in general, rather than > just for Windows. You mean, distribute temacs, and make it dump emacs at installation time? It could be done, I see no technical issues with that, although I think it would be a very unusual thing to do. I don't see the motivation, though, certainly not for Windows: the existing build procedure works reliably on the target host, so making changes to distributions for the benefit of cross-compilation makes little sense to me. But I have no experience in packaging.