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: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:55:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83ljddg0w9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83634jglab.fsf@gnu.org> <831vf7ge57.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6hfeyzw.fsf@gnu.org> <83vdcig87f.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4sywpvv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83tys2fbxs.fsf@gnu.org> <87hbo1iubm.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269708960 29445 80.91.229.12 (27 Mar 2010 16:56:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:56:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 27 17:55:56 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 1NvZIh-0004fM-BY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:55:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvZIg-0000Ha-TQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NvZIM-0008OK-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:55:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43247 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvZIK-0008Ku-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvZII-00044o-Ps for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:39352) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvZII-00044X-IO; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:55:30 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KZY001009HAN600@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:55:14 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.176.135]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KZY00HO59O1CAF0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:55:14 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87hbo1iubm.fsf@home.jasonrumney.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:122767 Archived-At: > From: Jason Rumney > Cc: Chong Yidong , eller.helmut@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:49:01 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Yes, we could (it just needs an additional -lws2 switch during > > linking) > > We already use functions from ws2. I think effort was made in the past > to dynamically load it when required, because network support was not > always installed on early versions of Windows 95, and because loading > the library at startup caused a dialup dialog to pop up when the default > network connection was a dialup connection. Neither of these is > probably a concern anymore, so it might be better to simplify the code > by with linking ws2 normally. How is this not a concern anymore? We didn't stop supporting Windows 9X, did we?