From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Building Emacs-cvs on Cygwin Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:24:40 +0200 Message-ID: <8564e7wf13.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161860872 6603 80.91.229.2 (26 Oct 2006 11:07:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:07:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 26 13:07:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd35Q-0000r1-6F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:07:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd35P-0006wR-ND for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd358-0006ud-R0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd357-0006tZ-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gd357-0006tM-B0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gd357-0000JI-5j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Gd34z-000870-VR; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 2A0221C2FE39; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:24:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 26 Oct 2006 06\:12\:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:61194 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I had a build tree (CVS 20061025 15:00) on Linux, so I have run > > I think you mean "on GNU/Linux", because that is a complete system, > comparable to Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows is not a complete system, as it is missing most end user applications, and is also lacking the toolbox inventory of small utilities that are a necessary ingredient of POSIX systems. One has to add quite a bit of GNU stuff to MS Windows before it becomes comparably useful. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum