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: [RFC] Correctly handling MinGW-w64 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:33:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83oas5bxd1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r3x2qyjg.fsf@wanadoo.es> <546973D0.7050306@cs.ucla.edu> <87ioieqxbb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <54697A45.1040505@cs.ucla.edu> <87egt1rhy4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83a93pddo9.fsf@gnu.org> <546A1C0E.10204@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416242043 20666 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 16:34:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:34:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 17:33:56 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1XqPFU-0006Rj-Fb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:33:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48764 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqPFU-0001EV-29 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:33:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqPFK-0001EH-9Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:33:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqPFE-0001lf-Cn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:33:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:46441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqPFE-0001lN-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:33:40 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NF600500YW2ON00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:29:15 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NF60056TZ4QFV10@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:29:15 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <546A1C0E.10204@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177443 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:02:22 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > > Given that we're now requiring GNU Make, I expect there's a lot of other stuff > we could now move out of 'configure', if we had the time. Which would be a good > thing: 'configure' is reaaally slow and is a pain to maintain. The smaller it > is, the better. I'm fine with that, but let's try to be more consistent about that than we are now, and let's also record that somewhere in admin/notes. The fact that I was surprised is probably an indication that others might be, too.