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: Some comments on the MSYS-based build Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:43:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83ppvyt1zl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hahfysx4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83a9n2uxn9.fsf@gnu.org> <87obbi2emd.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370616268 11216 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2013 14:44:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 07 16:44:27 2013 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 1Ukxtu-0007Ry-TC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:44:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42332 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ukxtu-0000ID-C0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ukxto-0000C0-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ukxtm-0002lA-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:64448) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ukxtm-0002kv-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:44:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MO10000026L8700@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:44:13 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MO100MWA29OXU90@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:44:13 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87obbi2emd.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:160220 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:13:14 +0200 >=20 > > I removed the "GUI" part. >=20 > IMO mingw-get-inst is far more convenient than mingw-get for easily > installing the required MinGW pieces. It takes less than one minute > of human work. I'll try to submit a patch to INSTALL.MSYS explainin= g > where to get and how to use mingw-get-inst for building Emacs. MinGW people say that mingw-get-inst is only for installing mingw-get. I don't think we should invent our own MinGW procedures, even if they seem to work. > >> so it seems that msys-automake is unnecesary. > > > > I removed that. What about autoconf, does it get installed by ot= her > > packages, or does it need to be installed separately? If the lat= ter, > > I think the only alternative is the one I provided on sourceforge= , is > > that right? >=20 > Package mingw-developer-toolkit includes both automake and autoconf= . > Actually, mingw-get-inst only provides three main packages: compile= rs > (the C compiler comes checked by default), MSYS Base System, and Mi= nGW > Developer Toolkit (which implicitly requires MSYS Base System.) The= user > only needs to add a mark to MinGW Developer Toolkit and he gets > everything for building Emacs. OK, I'll adjust the text.